Message from the Section Chair
Dear member:
I hope this message finds you well. This newsletter provides some updates from the Section.
We have formed an important Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee lead by Dorothee Honhon (UT Dallas). An important step of this effort is a survey (see more details later in the letter) that will help assess where the RMP section stands. We would like to have maximal participation so please take the survey here.
Our section conference is scheduled for June 7-9, 2023 at Imperial College, with an exciting program of talks. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee Gah-Yi Ban, Anran Li, Xiaocheng Li, Zhe Liu, and Kalyan Talluri for all their hard work. I also would like to encourage everyone in our community to register and attend the conference. Please go to the conference website (here) for details.
Every year, we celebrate many of the important advances made in the community. I am pleased to report that we have two fantastic committees for our annual Section and Jeff McGill Student Paper awards.
- Section Award: The committee is being chaired by Huseyin Topaloglu (Cornell University) and includes Kostas Bimpikis (Stanford), Felipe Caro (UCLA) and Jun Li (University of Michigan). The submission deadline is July 14, 2023.
- Jeff McGill Student Paper Award: The committee is being chaired by Vahideh Manshadi (Yale University) and includes Ali Aouad (London Business School), Yonatan Gur (Stanford University), Krishnamurthy Iyer (University of Minnesota), Hongyao Ma (Columbia University), Rad Niazadeh (University of Chicago), Marcelo Olivares (University of Chile), Ozge Sahin (Johns Hopkins University), Mika Sumida (USC). The submission deadline is July 31, 2023.
The practice award will resume in 2024.
I want to thank all committee members for supporting these important awards.
If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to reach out to me. Also, don’t forget to invite your colleagues and students to join our RMP Section (details on how to join at the end).
Best wishes.
Omar Besbes
- 2023 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference
- July 7-9, 2023
- Imperial College Business School, London, United Kingdom
The 2023 Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section Conference will be hosted by the Imperial College Business School in London, UK, on July 7-9, 2023. The conference organizing committee members are Gah-Yi Ban, Anran Li, Xiaocheng Li, Zhe Liu, and Kalyan Talluri. This event is the premier forum for both academics and practitioners who are active in research and application in the fields of pricing analytics and revenue management.
The conference official website is now open for abstract submissions and registration. To ensure the inclusion of more speakers, each attendee is limited to a maximum of one submission as a presenting author although they may co-author more than one submission. An abstract should be in PDF, not exceeding 1 page or 3000 characters, and blinded (without author information). Please email your abstract title and author information (listing the full name, email address and affiliation of each author, and indicating the presenting author) as well as the abstract as an attachment to rmpconference2023@outlook.com. The submission deadline is April 1, 2023 (11:59 pm Pacific Time). More information can be found at: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/events/informs-revenue-management-and-pricing-section-conference-2023/
Upcoming Informs RMP Conferences
- 2024 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Conference
- UCLA Andersen School of Management, Los Angeles, USA
- July 15-16, 2024
- 2025 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Conference
- Columbia Graduate School of Business, New York, USA
- Dates TBA
Other Related Conferences
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee
An inaugural committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) was set up at the 2022 INFORMS conference, with the dual objective of: (1) forming general principles and guidelines on how to approach DEI issues and (2) advising the board on initiatives to promote diversity, equitable access to opportunities and a sense of belonging in our section. Dorothee Honhon (UT Dallas), along with nine committee members (see list below), are leading this effort. An important part of these efforts is a survey, where we need your help.
2023 RMP Section Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Survey
The Revenue Management and Pricing Section is committed to providing a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all attendees to its events and initiatives.
As part of this effort, a DEI Committee was formed last Fall and has prepared a survey, which I encourage you to take: Please take the survey here. Here’s a quick message from the committee: “We know you are probably receiving different DEI survey each month from your workplace and the various communities you belong to. So, we wanted to focus on questions which are specific to your experience as a professional in your interactions with the RMP Section, as well as questions regarding potential new initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and a sense of belonging in our community.”
All responses are anonymous and completely confidential. The aggregate results of the survey, along with a plan of action for proposed changes and new initiatives, will be discussed at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in October. A summary of its findings will be made available on the RMP section website after the conference.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please reach out to Dorothee at dorothee.honhon@utdallas.edu.
DEI Committee members:
- Christiane Barz, University of Zurich
- Rene Caldentey, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- So Yeon Chun, INSEAD
- Stefanus Jasin, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
- Dorothee Honhon, (Chair) Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
- Jessie Jiang, Cornell University
- Zhen Liu, Daniel L. Goodwin College of Business, Benedictine University
- Daniela Saban, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
- Konstantinos Stouras, University College Dublin
- Heng Zhang, Arizona State University
Practice Webinar Series
We launched the RMP practice webinar series in 2020 to better facilitate dialogues between academics and practitioners. We plan to run the webinar series as a regular event. So far, we have successfully hosted four webinars:
- The first webinar took place on October 7, 2020. Robert Phillips (Amazon) talked about “Pricing and Analytics - Challenges and Research Opportunities”.
- The second webinar took place on February 10, 2021. Vahab Mirrokni (Google) talked about “Recent Trends in Online Ad Markets: Robustness, Learning, and Automation”.
- The third webinar took place on May 12, 2021. Nicolas Stier-Moses (Facebook) talked about “Operations Management Research at Facebook”.
- The fourth webinar took place on April 7, 2022. Tara Mardan (Amazon) and Joe Cooprider (Amazon) talked about “Science of Pricing Experimentation at Amazon”.
The video recordings are available on INFORMS site (https://connect.informs.org/rmp/rmpresources/webinar).
Please stay tuned for the upcoming seminars in 2023!
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Student Live Paper Series and Spotlight Paper Presentations
We launched the RMP student live paper series on YouTube to promote works by RMP Section’s student members. This RMP student live paper series is an ongoing effort, and we will keep adding new presentations to the list. We also showcase recordings of RMP Section Conference Spotlight Paper Presentations in section’s Youtube channel. You can access the recordings through our youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVF0N1jTIgHOiepvKgrXAnw/videos. If you are interested contributing to the live student paper series, please send an email to the section chair.
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RMP Section – How to Join
To become a member of the Revenue Management and Pricing Section, it is the easiest (but not necessary) just to add it to the regular INFORMS membership. Those who’d rather focus exclusively on the Section’s activities can become members only of the Section by calling 1-800-446-3676. More information can be found at: http://connect.informs.org/rmp/membership/how-to-join
Benefits of Membership
As a member of the Section, you will receive benefits such as our newsletter, registration fee discount to annual section conference, 50% off the subscription rate to the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, and listserver announcements. More information can be found at: http://connect.informs.org/rmp/membership/benefits
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