Professor Gilbert Laporte was among the winners of this year's Best Paper Awards recently presented by the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management College of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS).

Their paper, entitled "Collaborative Prepositioning Network Design for Regional Disaster Response", was co-authored with Professor Marie-Ève Rancourt of HEC Montréal, Professor Burçu Balcik of Ozyegin University, in Turkey, and IVADO postdoctoral researcher Selene Silvestri.

The paper will be published shortly in Production and Operations Management, a scientific journal on the Financial Times list.

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