Maxime Cohen
Member, GERAD
Other titles and affiliations
since Jan 2025
Academic Director, Bensadoun School of Retail Management, McGill University
Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
Jan 2026
Maxime Cohen
the State of AI in Canada White Paper, 30 pages, 2026
BibTeX reference
Dec 2025
Maxime Cohen and D. Sokol
To appear in: Management and Business Review, 5(4), 7–14, 2025
BibTeX reference
Sep 2025
Naomi Hausman, Peleg Samuels, Maxime Cohen, and Roy Sasson
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 114, Paper no: 104127, 2025
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News
Apr 8, 2026
Nymisha Bandi won the 2024 GERAD Best Thesis Competition for her thesis titled "Behavioral Retail Operations to Incentivize Customers". She was supervised by Maxime Cohen et Saibal Ray from McGill University.
Congratulations!
Nov 5, 2025
Several GERAD researchers feature prominently in a ranking that considers the international influence of scientists in all fields. The list was compiled by a research team from Stanford University and Dutch publisher Elsevier, and updated in September 2025.
Oct 16, 2024
Several GERAD researchers appear in a ranking of research citations updated in September 2024 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
Events
Nov 8, 202311:00 AM — 12:00 PM
“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Nymisha Bandi – McGill University
Nymisha Bandi – McGill University
Hybrid activity at GERAD
Oct 20, 202111:00 AM — 12:00 PM
GERAD seminar
Maxime Cohen – Full Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Maxime Cohen – Full Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Online meeting
Prizes and awards
since 2021
2025
Master of Management Teaching Award
McGill University
2025
2025 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award for the best business article in the General Economics category
"Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools" (M. Cohen, T. Spittle, J. Royer)
Concurrences and George Washington University
2025
RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Experts 2025
2024
Second Place in the INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Competition
INFORMS
2024
Nominee for Best Paper Award
Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2024
2024
Top 2% of most cited authors in 2023
in both Business & Management and Operations Research
Mendeley (Elsevier)
2024
1st place for the Practice Prize
Ivado Labs: Store-specific planogram optimization (with Adulyasak, Y., Gangier, P., Bigras, L.-P., Ibrahim, S., Remli, N., Rimélé, A., Cohen, M., Lodi, A., Rousseau, L.-M.)
Canadian Operational Research Society
2024
RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Experts 2024
2023
Finalist for the Best Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Paper Award
"The Impact of the Opportunity Zone Program on Residential Real Estate", Xiaoyan Liu, Maxime Cohen, Dmitry Mitrofanov, Ron Bekkerman, John Maiden
INFORMS
2023
Finalist in the 2023 INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Best Working Paper Competition
"Customers' Multihoming Behavior in Ride-hailing: Empirical Evidence Using a Structural Model", Sandeep Chitla, Maxime Cohen, Srikanth Jagabathula, Dmitry Mitrofanov
INFORMS
2023
RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Influencers
2022
Young Scholar Prize
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society
2022
Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors
Poets&Quants
2022
RETHINK Retail's Top Retail Influencers
Editorial Boards & Comittees
Editorial Service
- Associate Editor for Operations Research (2024-present)
- Special Issue Editor for MBR on “Competition and Regulation of AI” (2025)
- Deputy Editor for Service Science (2024-present)
- Department Editor for POM – Supply Chain Management Department (2022-2024)
- Special Issue Editor for Service Science on “Impact of AI on Service Design and Delivery” (2024-2025)
- Department Editor, Production and Operations Management – Service Operations Department and Supply Chain Management Department (2022-present)
- Guest Department Editor, POM Special Issue on “Responsible Data Science” (2022-2024)
- Associate Editor, Management Science (2020-present)
- Associate Editor, M&SOM (2021-present)
- Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management (2017-2022)
- Guest Associate Editor, M&SOM (2020-2021)
- Guest Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics (2020-2021)
- Associate Editor, M&SOM Special Issue on Smart City Operations (2019-2020)
- Associate Editor, M&SOM Special Issue on Sharing Economy and Marketplaces (2018-2019)
- Associate Editor, NRL Special Issue on Service Operations (2018-2019)
- Advisor and Associate Editor, Management and Business Review (2019-present)
Supervision
Zhihao Yao
Ph.D.
Liting Chen
Ph.D.
Tony Xu
Master's degree
Jitsama Tanlamai
Ph.D.
Mehran Poursoltani
Postdoctoral research
Doehun Kim
Postdoctoral research
Ken Ming Lee
Master's degree
Banafsheh Asadi
Postdoctoral research
Hajime Shimao
Postdoctoral research