Practice Award

The RMP Section Practice Award recognizes outstanding applications of revenue management and pricing techniques. The final competition for the award will take place live, at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Finalists will present their work during a special session of the conference, and judging will take place immediately after the presentations. The winner will be announced during a prize ceremony at the conference.

Committee: Jose Luis Beltran (Hitachi), Guillermo Gallego (Chair, HKUST), Kalyan Talluri (ICL), Huseyin Topaloglu (Cornell)

Please submit your entry to ggallego@ust.hk by July 1, 2019.

2022 Winner

Title: “9 Years of Substantial Revenue Increase by Scheduling Advertising Optimally and Seamlessly on Cable Television” by:

- Sebastian Souyris (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- Sridhar Seshadri (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Shiv Sehgal (RSG Media)
- Sriram Subramanian (Pinterest)

Past Winners

Year	Recipient	Work
2019	Jacob Feldman (WUSTL), Dennis Zhang (WUSTL), Xiaofei Liu (Alibaba) and Nannan Zhang (Alibaba)	Customer Choice Models versus Machine Learning: Finding Optimal Product Displays on Alibaba
2017	Markus Ettl, Pavithra Harsha, and Shivaram Subramanian (IBM), and Joline Uichanco (Michigan)	Omni-Channel Markdown Optimization Click on the following links for: Submission, Presentation, Paper(s).
2015	Yihaodian, Ross School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School.	Competition-Based Dynamic Pricing in Online Retailing Click on the following links for: Submission, Presentation, Paper(s).
2014	Rue La La Company, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization Click on the following links for: Submission, Presentation, Paper(s).
2013	Molson Coors Brewing Company, Pricing Solutions Limited, and Queen's School of Business	Pricing and Promotions Analysis at Molson Coors Brewing Company Click on the following link for: Submission .
2012	HP Labs and Columbia University	Data Driven Market Pricing and Portfolio Management Click on the following link for: Presentation.
2011	Wyndham Exchange & Rentals, Metrics & Algorithms Team	Optimizing Vacation Exchange
2010	Marriott International	Group Pricing Optimizer