The 2004 ISMS Practice Prize Competition

The Inaugural ISMS Practice Prize Competition ISMS Practice Prize Competition

Background ISMS'S bylaws state that its purpose "... is to foster the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research, and science and technologies that improve the understanding and practice of marketing. " Note the emphasis on implementation and on practice. The Society's goals are well served by its journal, Marketing Science, and it has recognized out...

The Inaugural ISMS Practice Prize Competition ISMS Practice Prize Competition Chairman

Background ISMS’s bylaws state that its purpose “... is to foster the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research, and science and technologies that improve the understanding and practice of marketing.” Note the emphasis on implementation and on practice. The Society’s goals are well served by its journal, Marketing Science, and it has recognized outs...

Effective Marketing Science Applications: Insights from the ISMS-MSI Practice Prize Finalist Papers and Projects

F 2003 to 2012, the ISMS-MSI Practice Prize/Award competition has documented 25 impactful projects, with associated papers appearing in Marketing Science. This article reviews these papers and projects, examines their influence on the relevant organizations, and provides a perspective on the diffusion and impact of marketing science models within the organizations. We base our analysis on three...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 English

Joint winner of the 2013 Philosophy prize essay competition

This article aimstoreviewthe standardobjectionstodualismandtoargue that either they will fail to convince someone committed to dualism or are flawed on independent grounds. I begin by presenting the taxonomyofmetaphysical positions on concrete particulars as they relate to the dispute between materialists and dualists, and in particular substance dualism is defined. In the first section, severa...