Message from the Section Chair
Dear Revenue Management & Pricing Section,
The Spring and Summer seasons are upon us, with exciting conferences. Watch out for the upcoming submission deadlines. The Revenue Management Conference will take place in July (see below). The conference will be in person for the first time since 2019! Our colleagues at Imperial College are busy preparing an exciting program, and I want to take this opportunity to thank them for all their efforts.
The Marketplace Innovation Workshop will continue to take advantage of the virtual format, and will take place in late May (see below).
The RMP section also has an important DEI initiative led by DEI committee chair Dorothee Honhon along with nine committee members. They will send out a DEI survey to the members shortly and share with the community the results at the RMP conference in July. I want to take this opportunity to thank the DEI committee for their effort in this initiative.
Best wishes,
Omar Besbes
- Eighth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (Virtual)
The eighth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) will be virtual and will run every day from 10:45am EST to 4:00pm EST from May 22 to May 24, 2023. Workshop co-organizers are Itai Ashlagi (Stanford), Omar Besbes (Columbia), Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research), Vahideh Manshadi (Yale), Nicolas Stier-Moses (Meta Platforms), and Fanyin Zheng (Columbia). There will a mix of plenary speakers and contributed talks.
Submissions are now open. Submissions should consist of 1-page extended abstracts. The submission deadline is March 31, 2023 (11:59pm EST). More information can be found at: http://marketplaceinnovation.net/
- 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/
Other Related Conferences
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity 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, are meeting monthly and preparing a DEI survey to be sent out to the members shortly, in order to collect information regarding DEI-related issues and opportunities, specifically at the level of the RMP section. Results will be presented at the July conference. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please reach out to Dorothee at dorothee.honhon@utdallas.edu.
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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