FIRST PLACE
| Team: | Bosques Arauco |
| Paper: | Use of OR Systems in the Chiliean Forest Industries |
| Laureates: |
Rafael Epstein, University of Chile Ramiro Morales, University of Chile Jorge Serón, Bosques Arauco Los Horcones s/n Andrés Weintaub, University of Chile |
FINALISTS
| Team: | Cerestar |
| Paper: | Robust Process Control at Cerestar's Refineries |
| Laureates: |
Kumar Rajaram, University of California Los Angeles R. Jaikumar, Harvard Univesity Franz Behlau, Cerestar Benelux BV Frans van Esch, Cerestar Benelux BV Corrie Heynen, Cerestar Benelux BV Ralph Kaiser, Cerestar Deutschland GmbH Albert Kuttner, Cerestar Deutschland GmbH Izaak van de Wege, Cerestar Deutschland GmbH |
| Team: | Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company LLC |
| Paper: | Portfolio Construction Through Mixed-Integer Programming at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company |
| Laureates: |
Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Christopher Darnell, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co. Robert Soucy, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co. |
| Team: | Johnston County (NC) Public Schools |
| Paper: | Integrated Planning for School and Community: The Case of Johnston County, North Carolina |
| Laureates: |
Raymond G. Taylor, North Carolina State University Michael L. Vasu, James F. Causby, Johnson County (NC) Public Schools |
| Team: | Maritrans, Inc |
| Paper: | Developing Strategies for Maritrans' Business Units |
| Laureates: |
Murthy V. Mudrageda, Maritrans, Inc Frederic H. Murphy, Temple University Steve Welch, Meredith Management Group, Inc. |
| Team: | The Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) |
| Paper: | Long-Term Forrest Ecosystem Planning at Pacific Lumber |
| Laureates: |
L. Russell Fletcher, VESTRA Resources, Inc. Henry Alden, The Pacific Lumber Company Scott P. Holmen, VESTRA Resources, Inc. Dean P. Angelides, VESTRA Resources, Inc. Matthew J. Etzenhouser, VESTRA Resources, Inc. |
| Team: | Sears, Roebuck and Company |
| Paper: | Applying GIS and OR Techniques to Solve Sears Technician-Dispatching adn Home Delivery Problems |
| Laureates: |
Don Weigel, ESRI, Inc. Buyang Cao, ESRI, Inc. |