Jones School hosted INFORMS Marketing Science Conference

Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business hosted the 33rd Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Marketing Science Conference June 9-11 at the InterContinental Hotel & Convention Center in Houston. The conference brought together more than 700 academics, practitioners and policymakers from around the world to present and discuss new research on a broad range of marketing science topics.

The conference was preceded by a doctoral consortium June 8 at the Jones School. One hundred of the best doctoral students in the world who represent 100 different universities attended a series of lectures by the top senior researchers in marketing, along with presentations from editors of the top academic journals.

Top: Pictured from left from INFORMS are Cheryl Clark, manager of meeting planning; Terry Cryan, director of meetings; and Paulette Bronis, manager of registration/program development.

Middle, left: Pictured from left are Charles “Chuck” Weinberg, alumni professor of
marketing and division chair at the Sauder School of Business at
University of British Columbia, and Scott Neslin, the Albert Wesley Frey
Professor of Marketing in the Amos Tuck School of Business
Administration at Dartmouth College.

Middle, right: Richard R. Batsell, the Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Associate Professor of Marketing at the Jones Graduate of School of Business, spoke at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Marketing Science Conference.

Bottom: A cocktail reception for the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference was held June 9 at the InterContinental Hotel.