Practice Award

The Award Committee (Phil Beccue, Bob Clemen, and Karen Jenni) thanks all the finalists for a fine collection of strong, practical and influential applications of decision analysis, and for making our job a difficult one. Congratulations to Katherine Gentil and Shane Knighton for an excellent and comprehensive approach for identifying the academic degree needs and selecting a portfolio of academic programs to address those needs for various career fields within the USAF.

Winner

Katherine J. Gentil and Shane Knighton
"Developing Advanced Academic Degree Educational Profiles for Career Fields"

Committee Members

• Karen Jenni, Insight Decisions

• Bob Clemen, Duke University

Finalists

• "Developing Advanced Academic Degree Educational Profiles for Career
  Fields"
  Katherine J. Gentil and Shane Knighton, USAF
  
  

• "An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic
  Management"
  Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck, and Zeger Degraeve,   London Business
  School
  
  

• "Integrated Multi-Criteria Budgeting for Maintenance and Rehabilitation
  Policies at the Finnish Road Administration"
  Pekka Mild and Ahti Salo, Helsinki University of Technology
  
  

• "Commercializing Decision Analysis at Weyerhaeuser R&D"
  Sam Pittman and Craig Whittaker, Weyerhaeuser Co.