Omar Besbes

Published or forthcoming papers

• On information distortions in online ratings,
  Operations Research (forthcoming) with Marco Scarsini.
  short research brief featuring this work in Columbia ideas at work
  
  
• Contracting in medical equipment maintenance services: an empirical investigation,
  Management Science (forthcoming) with Tian Chan and Francis de Vericourt.
  
  
• Dynamic pricing under debt: spiraling distortions and efficiency losses,
  Management Science (forthcoming) with Dan A. Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis.
  
  
• Optimization in online content recommendation services: beyond click-through-rates,
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2016, 18 (1), 15-33. with Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi.
  - lead article of special issue on practice-focused research
  - received first prize at the 2014 M&SOM student paper competition (Y. Gur)
  
  
• Product assortment and price competition under multinomial logit demand,
  Production and Operations Management, 2016, 25 (1), 114-127. with Denis Saure.
  
  
• Non-stationary stochastic optimization,
  Operations Research, 2015, 63 (5), 1227-1244. with Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi.
  - received honorable mention at the 2013 INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition (Y. Gur)
  
  
• Repeated auctions with budgets in Ad Exchanges: approximations and design,
  Management Science, 2015, 61 (4), 864-884. with Santiago Balseiro and Gabriel Weintraub.
  - short research brief featuring this work in Columbia ideas at work
  - part of thesis that received the 2014 INFORMS George Dantzig dissertation award (S. Balseiro)
  - finalist in the 2014 INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition (S. Balseiro)
  
  
• On the (surprising) sufficiency of linear models for dynamic pricing with demand learning,
  Management Science, 2015, 61 (4), 723-739. with Assaf Zeevi.
  
  
• Intertemporal price discrimination: structure and computation of optimal policies,
  Management Science, 2015, 61 (1), 92-110. with Ilan Lobel.
  
  
• Dynamic pricing in the presence of demand shifts,
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2014, 16 (4), 513-528. with Denis Saure.
  
  
• On implications of demand censoring in the newsvendor problem,
  Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1407-1424. with Alp Muharremoglu.
  
  
• Dynamic pricing with financial milestones: feedback-form policies,
  Management Science, 2012, 58 (9), 1715–-1731. with Costis Maglaras.
  - short research brief featuring this work in Columbia ideas at work
  
  
• Blind network revenue management,
  Operations Research, 2012, 60 (6), 1537-1550. with Assaf Zeevi.
  
  
• On the minimax complexity of pricing in a changing environment,
  Operations Research, 2011, 59 (1), 66-79. with Assaf Zeevi.
  
  
• Testing the validity of a demand model: an operations perspective,
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2010, 12 (1), 162-183. with Robert Phillips and Assaf Zeevi.
  - recognized by the 2013 M&SOM best paper award
  
  
• Revenue optimization for a make-to-order queue in an uncertain market environment,
  Operations Research, 2009, 57 (6), 1438-1450. with Costis Maglaras.
  - recognized by the 2012 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize
  
  
• Dynamic pricing without knowing the demand function: risk bounds and near-optimal algorithms,
  Operations Research, 2009, 57 (6), 1407-1420. with Assaf Zeevi.
  - recognized by the 2012 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize
  
  
• Going bunkers: the joint route selection and refueling problem,
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2009, 11 (4), 694-711. with Sergei Savin.
  
  

Papers under review

• Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response,
  under review. with Francisco Castro and Ilan Lobel.
  
  
• Prior-Independent Optimal Auctions,
  under review. with Amine Allouah.
  
  
• Auctions in the Online Display Advertising Chain: A Case for Independent Campaign Management,
  under review. with Amine Allouah.
  
  
• Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constrained Buyers Under Limited Commitment,
  under review, with Santiago Balseiro and Gabriel Weintraub.
  
  
• The exploration-exploitation tradeoff in the newsvendor problem,
  under review. with Juan M. Chaneton and Ciamac Moallemi.
  
  

Refereed Conference Publications

• Stochastic Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem with Non-stationary Rewards,
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (NIPS 2014), Z. Ghahramani and M. Welling and C. Cortes and N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger, 199-207. with Y. Gur and A. Zeevi.
  
  
• Auctions for Online Display Advertising Exchanges: Approximations and Design,
  2013 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. with S. Balseiro and G.Y. Weintraub.
  
  
• Effect of grid resolution on accuracy of skin friction and heat transfer in turbulent boundary layers,
  AIAA Paper No. 2000-0820, AIAA 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 2000. with F. Thivet and D. Knight.