Winter 2025

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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 and Pricing Section Conference will take place at Columbia in July. The Market Place Innovation Workshop will happen in virtual format in May. I sincerely thank the organization committees for the two conferences for all their work. Hope to see many of you at an upcoming conference!

Best wishes,

Huseyin Topaloglu

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Upcoming Conferences

  • Thenth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (Virtual)
    • May 19 - 21, 2025

    • The tenth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) will be virtual and will run every day from 11:00am ET to 4:00pm ET from May 19 to May 21, 2025. 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 be a mix of plenary speakers and contributed talks. More information can be found at: http://marketplaceinnovation.net/

  • 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 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.
    • The conference official website is now open. To allow 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 should be a one-page PDF, containing:
      • Title
      • Presenting Autor Name
      • Presenting Author Institution
      • Presenting Author Email
      • List of co-authors
      • Abstract 
    • The submission should not exceed one page, and the abstract should not exceed 3000 characters. Please email your submission to rmpconference2025@gmail.com. The submission deadline is April 1, 2025. More information can be found at: https://business.columbia.edu/2025-informs-conference

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Other Related Conferences

  • 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’25)

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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 2025!

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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