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Omar Besbes is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk and Operations division at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He teaches the core MBA class on Operations Management. His primary research interests are in the area of decision-making under model uncertainty with a focus on applications in dynamic pricing & revenue management and service operations. His recent work develops effective data-driven pricing algorithms to operate in uncertain and changing environments.

Before joining Columbia in July 2009, he was on the faculty at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

• Spring 2012
  Analytics for Competitive Advantage (MBA)
  Operations Management (MBA)
  
• Spring 2011
  (PhD) Data-Driven Decision Making in OM (PHD)
  Operations Management (MBA)
  
• Spring 2010
  Operations Management (MBA)
  

On the minimax complexity of pricing in a changing environment In Operations Research (2011) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi

Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2010) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Robert Phillips, Assaf Zeevi

Dynamic Pricing Without Knowing the Demand Function: Risk Bounds and Near-Optimal Algorithms In Operations Research (2009) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi

Revenue Optimization for a Make-to-Order Queue in an Uncertain Market Environment In Operations Research (2009) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Costis Maglaras

Going Bunkers: The Joint Route Selection and Refueling Problem In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2009) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Sergei Savin

On the (Surprising) Sufficiency of Linear Models for Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning In Working paper (2012) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi

Product assortment and price competition with informed consumers In Working Paper (2010) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Denis Saure

Blind Network Revenue Management In Operations Research (2010) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi

On implications of demand censoring in the newsvendor problem In Management Science (2010) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes

Dynamic Pricing with Financial Milestones: Feedback-form Policies In Management Science (2009) Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Costis Maglaras