Revenue Management and Pricing 2025 Jeff McGill Student Paper Award

The INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section announces the 2025 Jeff McGill Student Paper Award. The awards are given annually for student papers judged to be the best in the field of revenue management and pricing.

The first prize is accompanied by a $500 honorarium. The second prize is accompanied by a $300 honorarium. All other finalists, if any, will be awarded $100. The number of finalists will depend on the number of entries. All prizes, including finalists, are accompanied by a plaque in addition to the cash award. 

Eligibility Conditions:

There are five conditions for eligibility:

1. The entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2025, and the research presented in the paper must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.
2. The submitted paper must present original research conducted primarily by the student entrant. Some assistance from other individuals (such as the student's faculty advisor) is permitted; however, the entrant's primary research advisor must certify that the student's share of contribution to the paper exceeds 50%.
3. Entrants must be a member of the RMP Section on the date of submission.
4. The paper must not have won a prize (1st-2nd) in a previous student paper competition.
5. A student may submit at most one paper.

Submission Requirements:

 A complete entry consists of:

1. The paper in completely anonymous form and PDF file format, with a length of at most 32 pages including the appendix, tables, figures, and references, and strictly compliant with all submission formatting standards of the journal Operations Research or Management Science. There could be appendices beyond the 32-page limit, but the judges are not responsible for covering those materials. The file name should be the short title of the paper.
2. An electronic PDF file of a letter signed by a faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the entrant and the paper satisfy the eligibility conditions. The letter should state the entrant's contact information, the contact information of the entrant's primary research advisor and all co-authors, the paper title, and appropriate keywords for the submitted paper.

The above documents should be submitted by the entrant using the form available at: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpEqnBaCHM6170FLp1EuZGZx80Ek68kaaCmhNTrPCEvR7yAA/viewform.

Complete entries must be received on or before August 3rd, 2025. 

2025 Organizers:

• Negin Golrezaei, Associate Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Victor Martínez de Albéniz, Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department, IESE Business School

• First Place:
  • “How Big Should Your Data Really Be? Data Driven Newsvendor and the Transient of Learning” by Omar Mouchtaki (Columbia)
• Second Place:
  • “Experimental Design in Two-Sided Platforms: An Analysis of Bias” by Hannah Li (Stanford)
• Finalist:
  • “Fair Exploration via Axiomatic Bargaining” by Jackie Baek (MIT)
  • “Tight Guarantees for Multi-unit Prophet Inequalities and Online Stochastic Knapsack” by Jiashuo Jiang (NYU)
  • “Labor Cost Free-Riding in the Gig Economy” by Zhen Lian (Cornell)
  • “Blind Dynamic Resource Allocation in Closed Networks via Mirror Backpressure” by Pengyu Qian (Columbia)

• First Place:
  • “Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments” by Jinglong Zhao (MIT)
• Second Place:
  • “Engineering Social Learning: Information Design of Time-Locked Sales Campaigns for Online Platforms” by Can Küçükgül (UT Dallas)
• Honorable Mention:
  • “Optimizing Offer Sets in Sub-Linear Time” by Deeksha Sinha (MIT)
  • “Cold Start on Online Advertising Platforms: Data-Driven Algorithms and Field Experiments” by Zikun Ye (UIUC)