2020–Cynthia Barnhart: For "her multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary high impact activities in research, practice, education, leadership, and service."

2019–Dimitris Bertsimas: For "his sustained mulit-dementional high-impact scholarship that has lead to important applications, entrepreneaurial activity, for eductating generations of OR scholars, for the educational materials that have benefited generations of students of OR and analytics, and for opening up new fields of enquiry that have benefited society."

2010–Jonathan P. Caulkins: For "his pioneering work in developing policies to fight the national epidemic of drug abuse, prevent crime, reduce violence, address the sad dilemma of juvenile delinquency, and balance the need for both law enforcement and prevention in treating serious social ills"

2008–Margaret Brandeau: For "her pioneering research on public health policy models, including those for HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment, and for translating her results into improved U.S. and international health policies"

2003–Richard C. Larson: For "his contributions to solving a wide-range of important urban problems"

2002–Edward Kaplan: For "his work on using the methods of OR/MS to address some of the most pressing issues in public health and medicine of our time"

1999–Leonard Kleinrock: For "his wide-ranging and fundamental contributions to the birth and development of the Internet, and thereby to the global welfare of society"

1998–Jan M. Chaiken: For "his effective and important contributions to the public interest"

1996–Arnold I. Barnett: For "deep commitment to addressing societal problems and matters involving "threats to life and limb""