Winter 2024

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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). Our colleagues at UCLA 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).

Best wishes,

Vivek Farias

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Upcoming Conferences

  • Ninth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (Virtual)
    • May 20-22, 2024
    • The ninth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) will be virtual and will run every day from 10:45am ET to 4:00pm ET from May 20 to May 22, 2024. Workshop co-organizers are Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research), Hongyao Ma (Columbia), Azarakhsh Malekian (Toronto), Vahideh Manshadi (Yale), Nicolas Stier-Moses (Meta), and Fanyin Zheng (Imperial). 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, 2024. More information can be found at: http://marketplaceinnovation.net/

  • 2024 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference
    • July 15-16, 2024
    • UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • The 2024 Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section Conference will be hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management, on July 15-16, 2024. The conference organizing committee members are Francisco Castro and Velibor Misic. 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. 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 rmpconference2024@gmail.com. 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. The submission deadline is April 1, 2024 (11:59 pm Pacific Time). More information can be found at: https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty-research/decisions-operations-technology-management/2024-informs-revenue-management-and-pricing-section-conference

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Other Related Conferences

  •  2024 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference
    • April 14-16, 2024, Orlando, FL
    • Website: https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/analytics2024/

  • POMS 34th Annual Conference 
    • April 25-29, 2024, Minneapolis, MN
    • Website: https://pomsmeetings.org/conf-2024/
    • RMP track co-chairs:
      • Sumit Kunnumkal (sumit_kunnumkal@isb.edu), Indian School of Business
      • Elaheh Fata (elaheh.fata@queensu.ca), Queen’s University

  •  2024 MSOM Conference & SIG Meeting

  • 25th 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 in 2024!

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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