Spring 2025

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Message from the Section Chair

Dear member: 

I hope this message finds you well. This newsletter provides some updates from the Section.

Our section conference is scheduled for July 14 -16, 2025 at Columbia Business School, with an exciting program of talks. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee Santiago Balseiro and Will Ma 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 on both the conference and the celebration event.

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,

Huseyin Topalolgu

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Upcoming Conferences

  • 2025 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference
    • July 14-16, 2025

    • Columbia Business School, New York, NY

      The 2025 Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section Conference will be hosted by Columbia Business School, on July 14-16, 2025. The conference organizing committee members are Santiago Balseiro and Will (Wei) Ma. 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. More information can be found at the conference website (here).

Upcoming INFORMS RMP Conferences 

  • 2026 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Conference
    • University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    • Dates TBA

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Other Related Conferences

    • 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’24)

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    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.

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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