Omar Besbes

Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor of Business
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

Published or forthcoming papers

Intertemporal price discrimination: structure and computation of optimal policies,
forthcoming in Management Science. with Ilan Lobel.
Repeated auctions with budgets in Ad Exchanges: approximations and design,
forthcoming in Management Science. 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.
finalist in the 2014 INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition.
On the (surprising) sufficiency of linear models for dynamic pricing with demand learning,
forthcoming in Management Science. with Assaf Zeevi.
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

Product assortment and price competition under multinomial logit demand,
under review. with Denis Saure.
On information distortions in online ratings,
under review. with Marco Scarsini.
short research brief featuring this work in Columbia ideas at work
Non-stationary stochastic optimization,
under review. with Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi.
received honorable mention at the 2013 INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition
Optimization in online content recommendation services: beyond click-through-rates,
under review. with Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi.
received first prize at the 2014 M&SOM student paper competition.
Contracting in medical equipment maintenance services: an empirical investigation,
under review. with Tian Chan and Francis de Vericourt.
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.