Section Award

Call for nominations for the 2024 RMP Section Prize

The INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize is awarded for the best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English. The award includes a plaque and a cash prize. The total cash prize is $1000 that is shared equally among the winners. The award is given each year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. Papers that are eligible may be resubmitted the next year. Published work must meet the following requirements to be eligible for the INFORMS RMP Section Prize:

  • It must be in the form of a paper, a book, or a group of papers or books. It must be on the topic of pricing/revenue management.
  • It must have been published in one of the preceding five years or, in the case of a group, at least one member of the group must have been published in one of those years. For example, for the prize awarded in the year 2024 at least one of the publications must have appeared in one of the years 2019 through 2024.
  • It must be written in the English language.
  • It must have appeared in the open literature.
  • Authorship in all submitted material (i.e., group of papers and/or books), i.e., all coauthors in the intersection of the set of coauthors in all submitted material, is required to be considered for the award.

Books or papers may be case histories, reports of research representing new results, or primarily synthesis. For any nominated set (a group of either articles or books) published over more than one year, it is expected that each element in the set is part of one continuous effort, such as a multi-year project or a continuously written, multi-volume book.

 

To be eligible for consideration, each book or paper must be nominated to the committee. Anyone may make nominations (including self-nominations). The Committee will use the following criteria in making judgments:

  • The extent to which the contribution advances the state of the art of pricing and revenue management.
  • The originality of the ideas or methods.
  • The new areas of application it opens up.
  • The degree to which existing theory or method is unified or simplified. 
  • The clarity and excellence of the exposition. 
  • The degree to which the contribution provides value for future applications, or enables improved practice.

Application Process

A nomination consists of:

  • A nominating letter specifying the work being nominated and explaining why it is deserving of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Award. Nominating letters must include the titles of paper(s) or book(s), author(s), and the place and date of publication.
  • Supporting letters, if desired. Supporting statements bearing on the worth of the publication in terms of the six criteria above will be very helpful, but are not required. 
  • A PDF version of the work. For materials that have to be physically mailed, please ask the committee chair for mailing addresses.

The submission deadline is July 14, 2024. Nominations should be emailed to the chair of the committee at dsaban@stanford.edu with the subject line "RMP Section Prize 2024".

Committee:

  • Rob Bray (Northwestern University)
  • Ozan Candogan (University of Chicago)
  • Vishal Gupta (University of Southern California)
  • Daniela Saban (Stanford University, chair)
  • Ozge Sahin (Johns Hopkins University) 


Past Winners

2023

Santiago Balseiro, Columbia University
Haihao Lu, U. of Chicago
Vahab Mirrokni, Google

2022

Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Ozan Candogan, U. of Chicago
Daniela Saban, Stanford University

2021

José Blanchet, Stanford University
Guillermo Gallego, HKUST
Vineet Goyal, Columbia University

2020

Jun Li, U. of Michigan

2019

Paat Rusmevichientong, USC

2018

Stefanus Jasin, U. of Michigan

2017

Richard Ratliff, Sabre
Garrett van Ryzin, Cornell Tech
Gustavo Vulcano, Universidad di Tella (Argentina)

2016                          

Arnoud den Boer,  CWI (The Netherlands)  
Bert Swart,  CWI (The Netherlands)

2015                                                

Vivek Farias, MIT  
Srikanth Jagabathula, NYU
Davavrat Shah, MIT

2014                                                     

Sham M. Kakade, Microsoft  
Ilan Lobel, NYU
Hamid Nazerzadeh, USC

2013

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2012

Omar Besbes, Columbia 

2011                                 

Yossi Aviv, Washington St. Louis
Amit Pazgal, Rice 

2010            

Huseyin Topaloglu, Cornell

2009                                 

Xin Chen, MIT
David Simchi-Levi, MIT

2008                                     

Costis Maglaras, Columbia
Assaf Zeevi, Columbia 

2007                                                     

William L. Cooper, Minnesota
Tito Homem-de-Mello, Northwestern 
Anton J. Kleywegt, Georgia Tech

2006

Robert L. Phillips, Nomis Solutions, Inc.

2005

Guillermo Gallego, Columbia

2004                                 

Garrett J. van Ryzin, Columbia 
Kalyan T. Talluri, Pompeu Fabra