ANNOUNCEMENTS
2023 Best Paper Award Competition
The POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) invites all researchers/practitioners to submit their papers to the HOCM Best Paper Award Competition. The objective of the competition is to identify and honor outstanding papers in the fast-growing field of HOCM.
2022 Best Paper Award Competition
The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) is pleased to announce the results of the 2022 Best Paper Award Competition. This year, the competition continues with impressive high-quality submissions and topics.
2022 HOCM ONLINE Mini-Conference: Thursday, April 21, 2022
The HOCM College will be hosting (virtually) our eighth mini-conference on Thursday, April 21, one day before the main conference. Join us to explore new topics relevant to humanitarian operations and crisis management and learn from practitioners and academics.
2022 Best Paper Award Competition
The POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) invites all researchers/practitioners to submit their papers to the HOCM Best Paper Award Competition. The objective of the competition is to identify and honor outstanding papers in the fast-growing field of HOCM.
2021 Best Paper Award Competition
The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) is pleased to announce the results of the 2021 Best Paper Award Competition.
2021 HOCM online mini-conference: Friday, April 30, 2021 (EDT)
The HOCM College will be hosting our online mini-conference on Friday, April 30, 2021 (EDT). Join us to explore new topics relevant to humanitarian operations and crisis management and to learn from practitioners and academics.
2021 Best Paper Award Competition
The POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) invites all researchers/practitioners to submit their papers to the HOCM Best Paper Award Competition. The objective of the competition is to identify and honor outstanding papers in the fast-growing field of HOCM.
2020 Best Paper Award Competition
The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management is very pleased to announce the results of its Best Paper Award competition for 2020.
We are pleased to announce that two papers tied for second place in the competition this year:
Second Place Tie
2020 HOCM Mini-Conference: Thursday April 23, 2020
The HOCM College will be hosting our eighth mini-conference on Thursday, April 23, in Minneapolis, MN, one day prior to the POMS Conference. Join us to explore new topics relevant to humanitarian operations and crisis management and to learn from practitioners and academics.
MISSION STATEMENT
The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HO & CM) is a set of members from the POMS community that seeks to create a focus group of researchers and practitioners to study how to manage operational systems under stress or severe resource constraints. A prime objective is to foster a creative environment among academics and practitioners to recognize how operations management plays a crucial role in dealing with the alleviation of human suffering under conditions triggered by cataclysmic acts of man and nature.
BOARD MEMBERS
