Omar Besbes
- Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Areas of Expertise
- AI and Business Analytics , Marketplace Design, Operations & Supply Chain Management
- Contact
- Office: 982 Kravis
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Links
- Curriculum Vitae
Omar Besbes's primary research interests are in the area of data-driven decision-making with a focus on applications in e-commerce, pricing and revenue management, online advertising, operations management and general service systems. His research has been recognized by multiple prizes, including the 2019 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, the 2017 M&SOM society Young Scholar Prize, the 2013 M&SOM best paper award and the 2012 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section prize. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and Operations Research.
He has taught core MBA courses in Operations Management and Business Analytics, an MBA elective on advanced Business Analytics, as well as various Ph.D. seminars on stochastic models, revenue management and data-driven decision-making. He is a recipient of the Dean's award for teaching excellence in the core at Columbia Business School.
Omar is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (France) and received a M.Sc. from Stanford University in 2000 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2008. Before joining Columbia, he was on the faculty at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
- Education
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Ingenieur de l'Ecole, Polytechnique, France, 1999; MSc, Stanford University, 2000; PhD, Columbia University, 2008
- Joined CBS
- 2009
All Activities
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Journal Article
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“Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response.”
Management Science
vol.
67
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(March 01, 2021):
1329
-1992
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Journal Article
Allouah, Amine and Omar Besbes
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“Prior-Independent Optimal Auctions.”
Management Science
vol.
66
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(October 01, 2020):
4417
-4432
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Journal Article
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“Optimal Exploration-Exploitation in a Multi-armed Bandit Problem with Non-stationary Rewards.”
Stochastic Systems
vol.
9
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(December 01, 2019):
319
-337
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Journal Article
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“Contracting in Medical Equipment Maintenance Services: An Empirical Investigation.”
Management Science
vol.
65
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(January 01, 2019):
1136
-1150
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Journal Article
Balseiro, Santiago R. and Omar Besbes
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“Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constrained Buyers Under Limited Commitment.”
Operations Research
vol.
67
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(January 01, 2019):
711
-730
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Journal Article
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“Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses.”
Management Science
vol.
64
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(October 01, 2018):
4572
-4589
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Marco Scarsini
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“On Information Distortions in Online Ratings.”
Operations Research
vol.
66
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(January 01, 2018):
597
-610
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Denis Saure
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“Product Assortment and Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand.”
Production and Operations Management
vol.
25
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(March 01, 2016):
114
-127
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Journal Article
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“Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through-Rates.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations
vol.
18
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(January 28, 2016):
15
-33
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Journal Article
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“On the (Surprising) Sufficiency of Linear Models for Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning.”
Management Science
vol.
61
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(April 01, 2015):
723
-739
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Journal Article
Balseiro, Santiago R. and Omar Besbes
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“Repeated Auctions with Budgets in Ad Exchanges: Approximations and Design.”
Management Science
vol.
61
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(April 01, 2015):
864
-884
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Ilan Lobel
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“Intertemporal Price Discrimination: Structure and Computation of Optimal Policies.”
Management Science
vol.
61
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(January 01, 2015):
92
-110
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Journal Article
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“Non-Stationary Stochastic Optimization.”
Operations Research
vol.
63
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(January 01, 2015):
1227
-1244
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Denis Saure
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“Dynamic Pricing Strategies in the Presence of Demand Shifts.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
vol.
16
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(January 01, 2014):
513
-528
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Alp Muharremoglu
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“On implications of demand censoring in the newsvendor problem.”
Management Science
vol.
6
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(June 01, 2013):
1407
-1424
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- Type
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Journal Article
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“Dynamic Pricing with Financial Milestones: Feedback-Form Policies.”
Management Science
vol.
58
,
no.
9
(September 01, 2012):
1715
-1731
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- Type
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Journal Article
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“Blind Network Revenue Management.”
Operations Research
vol.
60
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(January 01, 2012):
1537
-1550
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Journal Article
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“On the minimax complexity of pricing in a changing environment.”
Operations Research
vol.
59
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(January 01, 2011):
66
-79
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Journal Article
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“Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
vol.
12
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(January 01, 2010):
162
-183
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Journal Article
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“Revenue Optimization for a Make-to-Order Queue in an Uncertain Market Environment.”
Operations Research
vol.
57
,
no.
6
(November 01, 2009):
1438
-1450
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Journal Article
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“Dynamic Pricing Without Knowing the Demand Function: Risk Bounds and Near-Optimal Algorithms.”
Operations Research
vol.
57
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(November 01, 2009):
1407
-1420
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Sergei Savin
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“Going Bunkers: The Joint Route Selection and Refueling Problem.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
vol.
11
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(January 01, 2009):
694
-711
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Working Paper
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The Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off in the Newsvendor Problem. November 04, 2021.
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Working Paper
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Pricing with Samples. June 01, 2021.
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Working Paper
Besbes, Omar and Omar Mouchtaki
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How Big Should Your Data Really Be? Data-Driven Newsvendor and the Transient of Learning. March 15, 2021.
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Working Paper
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Contextual Inverse Optimization: Offline and Online Learning. January 01, 2021.
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Working Paper
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Optimal Pricing with a Single Point. January 01, 2021.
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Working Paper
Allouah, Amine and Omar Besbes
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Auctions in the Online Display Advertising Chain: A Case for Independent Campaign Management. June 05, 2017.
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Working Paper
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The exploration-exploitation tradeoff in the newsvendor problem. November 01, 2014.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Shapley Meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising.”
Management Science
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Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Spatial Capacity Planning.”
Operations Research
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Forthcoming.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Static Pricing: Universal Guarantees for Reusable Resources.”
Operations Research
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May 02, 2019.
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- Course
B9150: Foundations of Operations Management
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- Course
B6101: Business Analytics
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Case Study
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Case Study
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Lean Operations: From Efficiency to Profit.
Columbia University
:
CaseWorks
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2011.
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Case Study
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Lean Operations: From Efficiency to Profits.
tk
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2011.