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Never seen inner covers like that either.
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Never seen inner covers like that either.
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Around here, Privet honey is considered to have a bad taste and won't sell.
Never leave honey or sugar water on a hive above an excluder in winter. The cluster of bees will move through the excluder to the stores but the queen cannot get through and will freeze to death. ...
Welcome don't be afraid to ask questions even if they seem naïve.
thanks for your advice
I have a five frame nuc that has laying workers. Bees are occupying about 4 frames. I feel that it's too late in the year
to go through the process of adding a frame of larva each week until...
welcome from just northeast of you
I sold several 5 frame nucs this year that I produced from my own bees. Customers seem to want 5 drawn frames and all being used, but Hungry Bear makes a good point about this being swarm level in...
Do any practical beekeeping practices have an impact on the gut microbiota? For example: feeding sugar water, Honey Bee Healthy or HFCS, using chemical treatments for mites or Nosema, foraging on...
Since our queens mate with area drones, it is our own best interest that as many colonies as possible around us are also treatment free survivors. It also expands our gene pool. I believe that the...
That's what Michael Bush keeps saying.
I believe that we have less virulent mites. It just makes sense. It seems to be the conclusion to Tom Seeley's studies. There are some very good...
My way of looking at it is that the amazing virulent genetics are in the treated hives. Only we treatment free beeks and ferals have the non amazing virulent genetics.
What so you guys think?
Good point. The ferals make very little surplus honey.
My numbers were exagerated for effect from my current opinion but not by much. The reason I think beekeeping practices do not matter much is because of the surviving ferals in forests where there...
I remember reading on Beesource that runniness was(is) a trait of the German bees (mellifera mellifera).
Maybe the secret to successful treatment free beekeeping is something like:
10% Competent Beekeepers
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Welcome from Lincoln Co. Beesource has a great wealth of information and members are great.
I heard his lines were great. Wish I could buy some queens.
Yes, put them on just before dark. Also, if there is a something of a flow happening they will not go beserk and tear up the comb like they will in a dearth.
Oops. I meant the hole to the outside, not the hole in the center of the inner cover.
They probably being supercedure cells instead of swarm cells is a good point. And swarm cells are usually much more numerous.


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Al Andalus Hills HSA07
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This beautifully furnished new apartment is situated on the secure private community complex of Al Andalus Hills in Vera Playa.
A friendly complex of just 150 properties, it has the benefit of a large outdoor pool and children's splash pool set in beautiful gardens with shade provided, an indoor pool, children's play area and private covered parking.
The first floor apartment features a king size room, twin room, 2 bathrooms, large living area with a terrace overlooking the gardens.
The nearest beach is just 10 mins walk along with a large supermarket a selection of bars / restaurants and the Vera playa Aqua park which is great for kids of all ages.
The apartment is located in between the two best golf courses in the province, Desert Springs golf course and Valle del Este golf course both located within 10 minutes drive from the apartment.
|Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Vera Playa 1 km
|Will consider
|Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised
|Nearest Amenities
|1 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Almeria 80 km, Nearest railway: Almeria 80 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|DVD player
|Shared indoor pool, Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Children's pool
|Central heating, Air conditioning, TV
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 En suites
|Double beds (1), Single beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Shared indoor pool, Balcony or terrace, Shared garden, Swing set
|Secure parking, Not suitable for wheelchair users
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Cots and High chairs available upon request.
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No firm booking can be made until a reservation form has been completed and a rental deposit has been received.
The Andalucia region
The Costa de Almeria is a region of unique beauty and has until recently been southern Spain´s undiscovered gem. The long golden sands of Mojacar Playa is just one of the reasons this area has become a top destination for Spanish and British holidaymakers. The landmark hilltop village of Mojacar Pueblo, with its distinctive houses, labyrinth of narrow streets and Bohemian character is another major attraction. A vibrant mix of residential and holiday complexes, golf courses and unchanged towns and villages stretch out along the coastline; the port of Garrucha, with its renowned seafood restaurants, and the impressive harbour of Almerimar, are all must-sees.
Vera Playa
The seaside resort of Vera Playa covers the beach area between Puerto Rey and Villaricos. Interestingly, it is said to be the place where Hannibal's elephants landed in Roman times. In the 1980s the area was practically undeveloped, however, recently this whole area has been undergoing intensive urban development and now boasts several hotels and many beach side complexes. The resort has earned the prestigious blue flag for its 8km of white sandy beaches: Las Marinas, Puerto Laguna, Pueblo Laguna, Puerto Rey and El Playazo.
Along with restaurants, bars and shops Vera Playa also offers the only WaterPark in the area, Parque Acuatico. Here you can take a thrilling ride on one of the many flumes or sit and relax by one of three swimming pools. There is an excellent selection of water shoots and slides and a children's section with a play area and their own water slides. The park is open from May until the end of September. For your shopping needs there is the Puerto Rey
development close to Vera Playa which has a smart shopping centre and supermarket.
The walled, renaissance town of Vera is one of the most important commercial centres in the region. Originally called Baria, it was located by sea near Villaricos. The Arabs moved it to the hill of Espiritu Santo, but a huge earthquake destroyed it in 1518. The tale goes that Queen Isabel climbed to top of this hill, fired an arrow and ordered that Vera be built where it landed. Vera as we know it was built in the 16th Century in the urban Renaissance style and later enlarged in 18th Century.
The main square, Plaza Mayor, has several noteworthy buildings. The Church de la Encarnación (1520), flanked by 4 great towers, was built as a fort to protect against the frequent Moorish attacks. Inside there are marvelous altarpieces, remarkable in their architecture. To the left of this is the Ayuntamiento (Town Hall), built in the 16th Century and renovated in the 18th Century. Here, on the ground floor, is the Ethnographic and Archaeological Museum, originally the barracks of civil guard. There are exhibits on history, folklore and local traditions. The town hall also houses the municipal archives.
As well as year round activities such as golf, diving and horse riding, during the summer months there are a wide range of organized activities, live music, flamenco, quiz nights, volley ball competitions and village fiestas. As in most Mediterranean countries, children are welcome just about every where. For younger children, there are many playgrounds dotted along the beach as well as organized activity groups supervised by professional nannies. For older children the Pueblo Indalo Complex is popular for its table games, discos and evening shows, all ages will enjoy Mojacar mini golf, Garrucha go - cart track, The Sorbas caves, Vera aqua park and Tabernas theme parks.
For those looking for an active holiday there is much to do. There is a full range of watersports including jet ski-ing, canoeing, water ski-ing, sailing, big game fishing, windsurfing, kitesurfing and scuba diving. If you have a head for heights why not take a flight in a microlight over the beach at the Indalo Wings Microlight Centre or try your hand at paragliding.
For those interested in wildlife and in that we mean flora and fauna, not a heavy night hitting the bars – you'll find a lot to enjoy without going very far, in fact, the region includes some of the most unique and varied wild life habitats in the whole of western Europe. The Cabo de Gata Natural Park and The Sierra Alhamilla Mountains are interesting and rewarding areas for the wild life enthusiast; over half of the 8000 species of plants native to Spain are common in Andalucia, including 150 species which are unique to the region. Many of the plants that are indigenous to Andalucia grow only in the arid areas of Andalucia.
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"The apartment was in a beautiful complex and spotlessly clean, very pleased"
We were all very impressed with the complex and the standard of the apartment. It was very clean, with new bedlinen and towels. We were met by the agent who explained the usage but there were ihe instructions left in the apartment. We had no interference with any other residents and it was surprisingly quiet.
We went to play golf at 3 of the 5 courses nearby and it was a pleasure to play in the Sun on courses with very few other golfers. We found several good quality restaurants nearby all of which were at a sensible cost.
We all siad we would try to make this a regular event and agreed that we would be happy to use the same appartment.
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Transactions on Education
Vol. 9, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 99–108
Teaching Demand Management and Price
Optimization in the MBA Program at the Carnegie
Mellon University Tepper School of Business
Nicola Secomandi
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213,
on my experience in teaching this course, which has significantly evolved over time from essentially a revenue
management course to a course that emphasizes quantitative models that address features falling at the interface
between the operations and marketing functions of a firm. I hope that prospective instructors of similar courses
will find this discussion useful and informative in making their own choices regarding how to structure their
n this paper, I describe the course Demand Management and Price Optimization that I have taught in the
MBA program at the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business during the past five years. I focus
Key words: revenue management; demand management; price optimization; operations management; supply
chain management
History: Received: June 2008; accepted: December 2008. This paper was with the author 3 months for
2 revisions.
In this paper, I describe the course Demand Man-
agement and Price Optimization (DMPO) that I have
taught during the past five years in the MBA program
at the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of
Business. This course is an MBA elective that counts
both as an operations management course and a
quantitative analysis course. DMPO largely started as
a "pure" revenue management course, but it has now
evolved to feature a broader perspective on the inter-
face between the operations and marketing functions
of a firm.
I developed and taught DMPO in the 2003–2004
academic year and also taught it in the next three
consecutive academic years, from 2004–2005 to 2006–
2007. DMPO was not offered in 2007–2008 for idiosyn-
cratic reasons. I am teaching it again in 2008–2009.
The MBA program at the Tepper School includes
three types of programs: day-time (regular), flex-time
(evening), and flex-mode (remote locations). I have
taught DMPO five times in the day-time program and
once in each of the flex-time and flex-mode programs.
Thus I have gained significant experience in teaching
DMPO. I am teaching one day-time section and one
flex-time section of this course in 2008–2009.
My goal in this paper is to provide details of my
experience that I hope will be useful to prospective
instructors when making their own choices regard-
ing how to structure similar courses. I emphasize how
DMPO has evolved over time. Rather than providing
a year-by-year list of the changes that I have made to
this course, I offer a more general description of my
approach to teaching DMPO, its content, what seems
to work well and what does not, some challenges, and
what I have learned in the process. Parts of DMPO are
still very much in flux, and I have also taken the liberty
to include in this description some topics that I intend
to cover as I teach this course again in 2008–2009.
The structure of DMPO is related to the pricing
and revenue optimization (PRO) course described by
Phillips (2003) and to similar courses discussed by
Bell (2004) and Dutta (2006). These courses focus on
the optimization of pricing and revenue-related deci-
sions. DMPO also deals with these topics but has a
broader perspective, as discussed in §2 (see also §6).
Thus a paper describing DMPO seems warranted.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows.
Section 2 discusses the focus and theme of DMPO.
Section 3 describes my choice of topics and applica-
tions and their sequence. Section 4 presents the main
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elements of the course syllabus and relevant refer-
ences. Section 5 articulates how DMPO fits within the
MBA curriculum at the Tepper School. Section 6 com-
pares DMPO against similar MBA courses. Section 7
illustrates ongoing challenges in teaching DMPO and
lessons that I have learned while teaching it over the
years. Section 8 provides concluding remarks.
DMPO is an operations management elective. (As
mentioned in §1 and discussed in §5, it also quali-
fies as a quantitative analysis elective.) Thus it has
an operational focus: the matching of supply and
demand by emphasizing the management of demand,
a tactic inspired by the approach of Cachon and Ter-
wiesch (2006) to teaching operations management.
However, DMPO differs from their approach because
it presents models that are not fully developed in
Cachon and Terwiesch (2006).
Specifically, Cachon and Terwiesch (2006) discuss
revenue management booking limits and overbooking
techniques to manage demand when supply exhibits
significant inflexibility. DMPO takes a broader view:
In addition to the tools of revenue management, it rec-
ognizes that the tools of operations management and
marketing, including pricing, can be usefully inte-
grated to match supply and demand.
Here, DMPO borrows from the views of Shapiro
(2007, p. 481), who states that "[i]ntegration of sup-
ply chain and demand management decisions should
be a prime concern of any profit-maximizing firm."
This author sees much promise in the use of data-
driven integrated supply chain management and mar-
keting models to improve a firm's profitability. In as
far as improved profitability reflects a better match
between supply and demand, the view of Shapiro
(2007) clearly illustrates the theme of DMPO: the
use of data-driven optimization-based demand man-
agement models that recognize the firm's supply
choices and considerations (e.g., capacity and inven-
tory availability) as tools to support managers to bet-
ter match supply and demand, thereby improving
This theme is reflected in the name of the course.
Although price is not the only demand management
choice that can be optimized, it does represent an
important one in practice, e.g., markdown pricing
in retailing (Mantrala and Rao 2001). Recent supply
chain and operations management textbooks, such as
Chopra and Meindl (2007), Simchi-Levi et al. (2008),
and Van Mieghem (2008), include a chapter on rev-
enue management and pricing that discusses price
Focus and Theme of the Course
3. Choice and Sequence of
Topics and Applications
DMPO covers the following topics: revenue manage-
ment (booking control), overbooking, price-response
functions and constrained supply pricing, markdown
pricing, customized pricing, additional joint supply
and demand management decisions, and competitive
analysis. Phillips (2005) covers the first five topics,
and others, in detail. Shapiro (2007, §§12.1–12.5) pro-
vides sufficient material and references for the last
two. Following are brief descriptions of the topics
covered in DMPO.
• Revenue management (booking control): The
business situation faced by a firm that sells prod-
ucts to different customer segments of uncertain size
at different prices through advance reservations and
uses finite perishable capacity to deliver its products.
It is advantageous for such a firm to control the book-
ing of its capacity over time by accepting/rejecting
customer orders (capacity reservations). Selling airline
seats is the classical example of this situation. Other
applications deal with industries such as car rental,
hotel, transportation, and manufacturing.
• Overbooking: Taking more reservations than
capacity allows. This can improve revenue in the set-
ting I have described because a considerable num-
ber of accepted reservations do not materialize at
the time of product delivery. The potential applica-
tions of overbooking are similar to those of revenue
• Price-response functions and constrained sup-
ply pricing: The price-response function relates price
to the demand for a product by a particular cus-
tomer segment during a particular time period. This
function is essentially a price-dependent product and
customer-segment revenue rate. Different from the
revenue management setting, the price-response func-
tion is useful in almost all business domains, includ-
ing theme parks, sports and entertainment venues,
and online advertising. The firm's objective in the
short and medium term is to maximize margin (price
minus avoidable costs) from product sales. If the
firm's supply (capacity/inventory) is fixed during the
time period under consideration, then the firm faces
a constrained supply pricing problem.
• Markdown pricing: The special case of con-
strained supply pricing faced by most retailers, where
seasonal merchandise, such as apparel, is sold during
a relatively short time period during which customers'
valuations naturally decrease as time progresses.
• Customized pricing: The situation faced by firms
that operate in business, as opposed to consumer, mar-
kets. In business markets, the norm is that suppliers
negotiate individual prices with different customers
who perform price comparisons among competing
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suppliers. Customized pricing aims at setting a price
for a specific deal to optimize a supplier's margin
from the transaction while taking competitor behav-
ior into account in a statistical (decision-theoretic)
• Additional joint supply and demand manage-
ment decisions: A category that could include a very
large set of topics. I restrict attention to strategic dis-
tribution decisions with revenue and cost consider-
ations, joint production and advertising or dynamic
pricing decisions, and product line configuration.
• Competitive analysis: Pricing at the industry
level with competition, relying on structural (game-
theoretic) modeling of competitive behavior. Appli-
cations include pricing with competitive effects and
pricing in commodity and commodity-like markets.
I have not covered all of these topics in earlier ver-
sions of this course. In particular, most of the top-
ics included in the last two categories are new, and
I intend to cover them in the next version of DMPO.
I admit that the ability to cover competitive analysis
within the available time is in doubt; thus I consider
this topic optional.
I present the course topics in the same sequence dis-
cussed above. In the remainder of this section, I elabo-
rate on my choice of starting the course with classical
revenue management, which appears to be rather
unusual for a course such as DMPO. The main reason
for my choice is simple: No other course outside the
operations area in the MBA curriculum covers these
topics (they are briefly covered in the day-time core
operations course). This is a unique opportunity for
me to showcase both why DMPO is different from
courses in other areas—in particular, the Pricing Strat-
egy course in marketing—and the practical usefulness
of managing demand while taking supply considera-
tions into account.
In a revenue management setting, the relevant man-
agerial tension is between taking too many "low"
price orders too soon and reserving too much capacity
for "high" price orders that may not materialize.
This tension is captured by the notion of opportu-
nity cost of capacity. Of course, this concept is closely
related to the shadow price of capacity that students
learn when studying linear programming in their
modeling classes (at the Tepper School, this occurs
at the beginning of the MBA program). However,
I introduce the opportunity cost concept by using
the notion of expected marginal seat (capacity) rev-
enue without reference to linear programming (I do
go back to linear programming when dealing with
multiple resources, that is, the so-called "network"
case), and I further elaborate on it by using dynamic
The disadvantage of this topic sequencing choice is
that students may associate DMPO with some of the
applications (airlines and hotel) used to illustrate the
opportunity cost concept and may lose interest in this
course if they are not specifically interested in pursu-
ing a career in one of the associated industries. This
is an important concern that can be easily addressed.
I explain to students that the notion of opportunity
cost is relevant in several other settings, e.g., the allo-
cation of manufacturing capacity to customer orders
(due date management is also relevant here). I refer
students to Nagle and Hogan (2006, pp. 162–164),
who discuss the relevance of incorporating oppor-
tunity cost in strategic pricing decisions, in particu-
lar "when costing the use of a manufacturing facility
[or] a railroad right-of-way" in addition to "the seat
capacity of an airline." (Nagle and Hogan 2006 is the
textbook used in the Pricing Strategy course in the
Tepper School MBA program.)
I also emphasize that revenue management is con-
sidered by Anderson et al. (2009, p. 368) an important
tool for gaining customer value in business markets;
they state that "In business markets, revenue manage-
ment is particularly useful in such industries as busi-
ness travel and lodging, and consulting and research
[and] can also be used very effectively in business ser-
vice contexts such as after-sales service of specialized,
complex, and expensive capital equipment including
semiconductor manufacturing machines, power gen-
eration systems, and robotic systems used in man-
ufacturing." (Anderson et al. 2009 is the textbook
of the Business to Business Marketing course in the
Tepper School MBA program.) These associations are
very beneficial in dispelling the stated concerns and
directly connect DMPO to other courses in the MBA
curriculum (see also §5).
I proceed by asking students which system com-
putes the opportunity cost of capacity in a typical
company. Students have no answer. I suggest that
their lack of answer is in fact correct: The typical firm
has no such system. I then stress that airlines, hotels,
and car rental companies are the most sophisticated
firms in consistently computing the opportunity cost
of their capacity across markets and time periods and
that there is a lot to learn from them about effective
demand management. This contrast allows students
to appreciate the potential practical usefulness of rev-
enue management methods in other business settings.
There is also a direct methodological connection
between revenue management and the other DMPO
topics that rely on constrained supply pricing: As is
well known, the opportunity cost of constrained sup-
ply is a component of an optimal price. I use this
argument to explain to students that revenue manage-
ment models using the opportunity cost of capacity
to make accept/reject decisions, such as the bid price
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method, can be thought of as restricted constrained
supply pricing models.
This section discusses important elements of the
DMPO syllabus. I do not include the details of my syl-
labus because they are specific to my institution and
the program type (day-time or flex-mode/time) and
are unlikely to transfer directly to other institutions.
It should be possible to cover all of the topics in a
typical full-semester MBA elective, provided that one
leaves out competitive analysis and chooses a limited
set of applications and models to illustrate additional
joint demand and supply management decisions.
Table 1 shows the cases, which are either pub-
lished or available from their authors. With the excep-
tion of Bloomingdale's (Ke et al. 2007), Fjord (Phillips
2007), and Retailer (Broadie and van Ryzin 1995),
which I will likely use in 2008–2009, I have used
all of them. These cases span different topics and
applications, ranging from revenue management in
airline/transportation/hospitality contexts, to mark-
down pricing in retailing, to customized and dynamic
pricing in manufacturing. I intersperse case discus-
sions with lectures throughout the course.
The course features the use of simulators. I have
used the Easy Profit simulator of Popescu (2006b)
once with good success. This is an airline simula-
tor that allows students to play the role of a rev-
enue manager of a single flight, whose seats are sold
over time to two customer classes. Students like this
tool because it makes the potentially abstract con-
cept of revenue management booking limits concrete.
I have never used the retailer simulator of Joneja and
Broadie (1994) in class, but I will do so the next time
I teach DMPO to illustrate the process of marking
down the price of seasonal merchandise in retailing as
the selling season progresses. What I have used so far
in this respect is a simplified spreadsheet-based ver-
sion of this simulator that I developed, which allows
me to illustrate how to develop simple yet effective
decision support models in practice. Of course, these
Syllabus and References
Table 1Cases
Easy Profit (Popescu 2006a): Airline revenue management
SkyJet (Shumsky 2007; see also Shumsky 2009): Airline revenue
Revenue Inn (Chen and Freimer 2004): Hotel revenue management
Transportation National Group (van Ryzin 1998): Transportation revenue
Yahoo (Dabbous and Popescu 2006): Internet advertising slot pricing
Vertigo (Popescu 2006c): Concert pricing
Bloomingdale's (Ke et al. 2007): Retail markdown pricing
Retailer (Broadie and van Ryzin 1995): Retail markdown pricing
Fjord (Phillips 2007): Manufacturing customized pricing
The Right-Price Consultants (Swann 2004): Manufacturing dynamic pricing
Table 2 Videos
INFORMS Edelman Award
American Airlines (Smith et al. 1991): Airline revenue management
National Car Rental (Geraghty and Johnston 1996): Car rental revenue
management and pricing
NBC (Bollapragada et al. 2001): TV advertising slot sale revenue
management and pricing
Texas Children's Hospital (Born et al. 2003): Hospital contract
Travelocity (Smith et al. 2006): Internet retailing
Chrysler and J.D. Power (Shearin et al. 2007): Automotive industry
INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize
CVS (Ailawadi et al. 2005): Retail promotions
bauMax (Natter et al. 2005): Retail assortment and promotions
two activities are not mutually exclusive (more on this
Support activities include external speakers and
videos of effective managerial practices that lever-
age relevant quantitative models. Students prefer
external speakers. However, videos of the INFORMS
Edelman Award competition and the INFORMS Mar-
keting Science Practice Prize competition may provide
more variety. Table 2 includes the videos that I have
employed during different years of teaching DMPO,
with the exception of Travelocity and Chrysler and
J.D. Power, which I intend to use in 2008–2009. The
Edelman Award videos are available from INFORMS
and are supported by papers published in Interfaces
following the year of the Edelman competition (see
Table 3). The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science
videos are also available from INFORMS and are sup-
ported by an electronic copy of the presentation that
was given during the competition.
Assessment activities include participation, home-
work, cases, and either a project or a final exam.
Table 3 Books, Articles, and Journal
Phillips (2005)
Shapiro (2007, Chapter 12)
Fleischmann et al. (2004): Pricing and operations management
Smith et al. (1992): Airline revenue management
Geraghty and Johnson (1997): Car rental revenue management and
Friend and Walker (2001): Retail markdown pricing
Mantrala and Rao (2001): Retail markdown pricing
Smith et al. (2007): Internet retailing
Bollapragada et al. (2002): TV advertising slot sale revenue management
and pricing
Born et al. (2004): Hospital contract optimization
Silva-Risso et al. (2008): Automotive industry pricing
Robinson and Satterfield (1998): Profit-based distribution strategy
Yunes et al. (2007): Product line configuration
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
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Graded participation stimulates active student in-
volvement. I typically assign three homework sets and
three cases throughout a minisemester. I recommend
having either a project or a final exam. A final exam
stimulates students to take a comprehensive view of
the course material. This exam can be in-class or take-
home, with the latter alternative creating less anxiety
among students. A project is more stimulating than
a final exam for most students. However, it has two
disadvantages in the Tepper School minisemester set-
ting: (1) it can be both challenging and frustrating
for students to identify interesting topics and perform
a proper analysis in one minisemester; and (2) there
is typically no time left for students to present their
work in class, which is something they highly enjoy.
Another option is to assign students a guided project.
That is, assign to students a project dealing with a spe-
cific topic whose execution can lead to a (largely) pre-
defined set of outcomes and guide them through the
selection of one of these outcomes.
For example, the next time I teach DMPO I will
likely assign students a retail markdown pricing
guided project, based on the data used by the retailer
simulator (Joneja and Broadie 1994) and ask them
to develop a simple spreadsheet-based simulator that
embeds both a demand-forecasting model and an
optimization-based markdown model, which allows
them to assess the performance of these models.
That is, I will ask students to create a simplified
spreadsheet-based version of the retailer simulator. In
this extended exercise, students practice how to cre-
atively approach the development of a data-driven
forecasting and optimization decision support tool by
being guided through the process of conceptualiz-
ing, creating, and explaining such a tool in a writ-
ten report. This approach could reduce the students'
anxiety level associated with executing a full-blown
project in one minisemester without compromising
their creative experience.
Yet another possibility is to have students present
an article that describes an implementation docu-
mented in the practice literature. The advantage of
this choice is that students practice giving presenta-
tions. The disadvantages are that (1) students present
someone else's work without engaging in a creative
process in the same way they would in a (guided)
project; and (2) the instructor must trade off presen-
tation time with lecturing time (thus the number of
topics that can be covered in the course decreases).
One way to tackle the second disadvantage would be
to ask students to prepare a written report, but this
would take away the excitement of giving a presenta-
tion, which is more important for this type of assign-
ment than for (guided) projects.
Table 3 displays the readings of DMPO. I adopted
the book by Phillips (2005) one year before it was pub-
lished. I have found that some students do well with-
out the book by relying on my slides. However, some
students prefer to have a book for reference. In the
next version of DMPO, I will also include §§12.1–12.5
of the book by Shapiro (2007) in the course readings to
provide students with reference material on additional
joint supply and demand management decisions.
The course readings also include several rele-
vant articles selected from Interfaces, Harvard Busi-
ness Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the
OR Practice area of Operations Research. Further, they
include a link to the Journal of Revenue and Pricing
Management via our university's library website. This
journal includes several interesting articles dealing
with pertinent applications. I have found it to be a
good resource for students. (It is also a good source
for project ideas.)
I conclude this section by discussing two "must
have" topics and related teaching material:
• Revenue management: Capacity control with a
network of resources based on the demand-to-come
linear program and the related bid price method
with transportation applications, the Transportation
National Group case (van Ryzin 1998), and the article
by Smith et al. (1992).
• Prize optimization: Single-item markdown pric-
ing in retailing, the retailer simulator (Joneja and
Broadie 1994) and case (Broadie and van Ryzin 1995),
and the articles by Mantrala and Rao (2001) and
Friend and Walker (2001).
In addition, Fleischmann et al. (2004) is a concise and
informative executive level article that discusses both
of these topics.
The common denominator between these two top-
ics is that they are both based on real applications.
Moreover, the two highlighted cases can both be
solved using linear programming. Thus these two
topics could be used as the content of a module on
revenue management and price optimization focused
on the application of optimization methods to support
demand management decisions. Such a module could
be part of an operations management or operations
research course.
DMPO plays an important role in the Tepper School
MBA program, where it is a "level 1" elective that
students who concentrate in operations management
are encouraged to take. The other two level 1 electives
are courses in supply chain management and quality.
This positioning of the DMPO course is a very recent
development and attests to the practical relevance of
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BRAYLON'S RETURN TO JETS IS A WELCOMED ONE, BUT WILL HE BE READY TO CONTRIBUTE ON MONDAY NIGHT? FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Braylon Edwards is back sporting green and white, but will be limited in Thursday's practice with a hamstring injury.The Jets claimed Edwards off waivers Monday, who was last played for the team in 2010, picking up the remaining $164,000 on his $875,000 contract with the Seahawks. Pete Carroll said Tuesday the team waived the All-Pro receiver after team doctors said he wouldn't be available to play for the next three games.Rex Ryan said that he's "optimistic" Edwards will...
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Chloe + Isabel Intertwines Social Media and Direct Selling
Chloe + Isabel announced the launch of a new online platform for its network of merchandisers. With this launch, Chloe + Isabel integrates social media and direct selling – taking the traditional Avon-model for direct sales into the digital age, and demonstrating its leadership in the social commerce space.
The innovative new platform is designed to improve user experience and sales opportunities for Chloe + Isabel's network of merchandisers. Through its merchandiser opportunity, Chloe + Isabel gives its merchandisers an opportunity to earn income through a new model of direct sales that focuses on social networks and online influence.
"We're proud to be the first social commerce company that allows our users to monetize their social networks," said founder and CEO Chantel Waterbury. "Chloe + Isabel's mission is not just to create beautiful jewelry but also provide entrepreneurship opportunities to young women. Our new platform creates a better experience that will undoubtedly improve their potential sales and income."
With its merchandiser opportunity, Chloe + Isabel is disrupting the 100-year-old direct sales model. In developing its network of merchandisers, Chloe + Isabel empowers a new generation of female entrepreneurs, providing valuable training on fashion merchandising, social media marketing, and building and running a business.
Features of the merchandiser platform include:
- Highly personalized online boutique: Each merchandiser has her own virtual storefront with a unique URL where she can create custom collections of Chloe + Isabel jewelry.
- Instragram integration: Merchandisers can market and editorialize their curated jewelry collections by pulling in imagery from their personal Instagram accounts.
- Comprehensive analytics dashboard: Merchandisers can access data comparing the performance of her personal business with that of the overall company – giving her insights on how to increase sales based on performance of the larger community, and incentivizing her toward important business goals with bonuses and promotions.
- Streamlined shopping platform: The new platform streamlines the order and purchase process for the merchandiser – allowing average Millennials (who make up the majority of Chloe + Isabel's merchandisers) the ability to shop for their customers as easily as they would shop for themselves, as well as provide better customer service.
- Social insights: Merchandisers gain insight into the effectiveness of sharing to their social networks.
Chloe + Isabel is the innovative e-commerce jewelry brand designed to empower and connect women through a social shopping experience. Sold exclusively online, Chloe + Isabel provides customers with one-stop shop for gorgeous hand-crafted jewelry. In addition, Chloe + Isabel is disrupting the hundred-year-old direct sales model and reimagining it for the digital age. Through its merchandiser program, Chloe + Isabel provides digitally savvy young women with a virtual storefront and the opportunity to harness their social influence to earn income. A 14-year veteran of the fashion industry, Chantel Waterbury founded Chloe + Isabel in 2011, and has since been named as an 'Under 40 Retail Star' by Fortune. More information is available atwww.chloeandisabel.com; you can also follow Chloe+Isabel on Twitter (@chloeandisabel), Facebook (facebook.com/chloeandisabel) and Instagram (@chloeandisabel).
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Dima Al Jundi is green, but not with envy, at first Eco Fashion Show at Abu Dhabi Mall
The Eco Fashion Show is meant to function as an effective means of spreading awareness about the importance of adopting an eco lifestyle.
The distinctive Eco Fashion of the UAE Green Festival has been launched at Abu Dhabi Mall in the presence of Arab celebrity Dima Al jundi, where renowned designers showcased their latest eco-friendly designs which have been produced according to sustainable standards using recyclable materials.
The first-of-its-kind event in the region runs for four successive days and hosts leading eco-friendly fashion brands enabling visitors to enjoy a "green" shopping experience through a set of sustainable designs for men, women and children.
The Eco Fashion Show is meant to function as an effective means of spreading awareness about the importance of adopting an eco lifestyle. It further endeavours to familiarise people with a new phase of shopping, an indispensable component of a sustainable lifestyle.
Not only is the Eco Fashion Show meant for shoppers, but it is also designed for suppliers as it enables them to introduce their sustainable designs to a wide audience. Eco clothing is often made of natural fabric materials that are non-toxic and less polluting in their production, use and disposal. Besides being healthier for our skin, eco-friendly clothing is also comfortable to wear and can be found in fashionable designs.
Abu Dhabi Mall had already launched a special program celebrating the UAE Green Festival earlier this month, including numerous awareness-raising and fitness activities in an attempt to promote a sustainable lifestyle in a fun way addressing all members of society.


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Brazil resumes work on major dam after protests
Work has resumed on the massive Belo Monte Dam in Brazil's Amazon after the public consortium reached a deal with indigenous groups and fishermen who had occupied one of its building sites.
Work has resumed on the massive Belo Monte Dam in Brazil's Amazon after the public consortium reached a deal with indigenous groups and fishermen who had occupied one of its building sites.
South Korea on Friday launched a full inquiry into a toxic chemical leak in the southeastern city of Gumi, as officials considered designating the affected area a "disaster zone".
(Phys.org)—Fans call it the first "electric super car" for a reason. The UK-built on Thursday smashed the UK electric car land-speed record, topping 151 mph. The Nemesis was at an airfield near York, completing ...
South Africa will process applications for shale gas exploration but hold off on controversial fracking drilling while new rules are drafted, the mines minister said Tuesday.
(AP)—The Navy can build a $100 million offshore range for submarine warfare training, despite environmentalists' fears that war games would threaten endangered right whales, a federal judge ruled.
South Africa on Friday said it was lifting a freeze on shale gas exploration in a move condemned by environmentalists who fear that controversial fracking will pollute scarce water sources.
Cathay Pacific said Wednesday it would no longer carry unsustainably sourced shark products on its cargo flights, dealing a blow to Hong Kong's huge shark fin industry.
A Thai state-owned firm on Thursday admitted four charges over a huge oil spill off northwestern Australia, the country's worst ever offshore drilling accident.
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Chinese oil major Sinopec on Thursday offered to help pay to clean up tonnes of plastic pellets that have fouled Hong Kong beaches since a spill at sea during a typhoon two weeks ago.
Thai opponents of a planned multi-billion dollar dam in Laos submitted a lawsuit to a court in Bangkok on Tuesday seeking to prevent their country buying power from the hydropower project.
Philippine authorities seized some 1,500 live aquarium fish and about 150 live pieces of brain coral at a Manila pier Friday just before they were to be shipped to Japan.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of turtle eggs and hatchlings have been destroyed on the northern Trinidad coast by government workers who drove their bulldozers over the breeding ground.
The European Commission presents proposals to limit automobile carbon emissions Wednesday that environmentalists complain will offer favoured treatment to manufacturers of big German cars.
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In this engaging tale, readers can follow Farmer Jack who seems troubled. He is unhappy because Nelly the cow has been acting strange and would not eat her hay. He wonders why it is taking her so long to have her baby calf. He decides to give her one more hour before he calls the veterinarian. Back at the house, Jack asks his wife for a cup of coffee so he could stay awake. Farmer Jack, however, dozes off and when he wakes, Nelly is gone. Can Jack find Nelly and make sure she is safe? The answer awaits readers as they browse through the pages.
Filled with vibrant illustrations and a fun plot, Farmer Jack is another lovable tale that children will enjoy reading over and over again. It will give them a glimpse of what farm life is like and the many wonderful surprises that come with it.
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Reno Mahe understands how Brandon Davies feels.
Mahe, a star football player at BYU 13 years ago, said he didn't take the Mormon school's strict honor code seriously.
Davies, a 6-foot-9 center for Mormon college Brigham Young University (BYU), violated the school's honor code banning sex before marriage.
The BYU honor code stipulates that students must "be honest, live a chaste and virtuous life…use clean language" and abstain from alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee and drugs. It also bars gambling, use of pornography and homosexual behavior, though "feelings or attraction" are allowed.
Davies was suspended this past Tuesday for having sex with his girlfriend.
Mahe said, "A girl I was dating at the time, my girlfriend at the time, was pregnant."
He was kicked off the football team for having pre-marital sex.
Mail Online reports Davies, averaging 11.1 points and a team-best 6.2 rebounds per game this season, was playing for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints school. The team, ranked third nationwide before its shock 82-64 loss on Wednesday to unranked New Mexico, will now be without Davies for at least the rest of the season.
The school's code also obliges students to be honest and regularly attend church.
Davies' coach Dave Rose said that all students who attend BYU make a commitment to follow the rules of the college.
ABC News reports that after his dismissal from the school, Mahe went to play football for a junior college for a year and reapplied to BYU, this time with full reverence for the rules. He was readmitted and drafted to the NFL before he could finish his degree. He played five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.
A year ago, the star running back for BYU's football team, Harvey Unga, had to withdraw from the school along with his girlfriend, a basketball player for the college's women's team, because they were having sex. The couple had been dating for three years and they later married.
BYU's conduct code is recognized as one of the most stringent in the nation. Spokeswoman Carri Jenkins told the Salt Lake Tribune that in the past decade, the university's Honor Code Office had contact with between 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent of the student population, mostly for minor infractions involving clothing and grooming violations.
According to the 2010 National College Health Assessment, about 69 percent of 95,712 students surveyed at 139 schools said they had been sexually active in the past year.
Many schools consider athletes public ambassadors and hold them to stricter standards than the student body, said Marie Hardin, associate director of research at Penn State's Center for Sports Journalism.
In a 2006 study of Big 10 athletes, Hardin found that when student athletes do run afoul of school policies, they are subjected to "saturation" media coverage that skews public perception of their behavior. Her study found less than 1 percent of Big 10 athletes got in legal trouble, which is "much lower than people might think it is."


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I didn't say that. Recoiling from criminals isn't the same as having a generic view, but I do believe it is a natural reaction. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't know. But I do believe we have the right to try and protect ourselves by going with our gut.
What has that got to do with the innocent families who are often the silent victims? Do we need to "protect ourselves" from normal citizens, simply because they're related to criminals?
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From what I'm reading, people in this thread seem to think it wrong to be wary of criminals in general. I find that bizarre. But maybe I'm misreading.
In which case, please quote the specific posts in which such comments were made.
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I was wrong there, that's true.
I just don't like the way those who did a double take at her choice of charity are being "shouted" at like naughty/stupid kids.
Please find me any intelligent and rational objections to Catherine's choice of charity. Anyone who assumes the relatives of criminals must be "dole scum" deserves to be treated like a child.
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|National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools
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|Grades Offered
|Grades Kindergarten - 12
|Offers Post-Graduate Year
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|20 students
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|6 teachers
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Vision We envision a world where all people live in peace and harmony with each other and our planet. Mission We seek to help our students manifest a peaceful and harmonious world. Organizational Structure The Farm School is a consensus-democratic school. We attempt to achieve consensus on all shared decisions and use voting to make decisions when this seems like the most peaceful path to a decision. We make decisions about the daily functioning of the school during school meetings where students and teachers each have equal voice. Our Parent, Teacher, Student Association (PTSA) makes decisions about the daily functioning of the school that require the input of parents. We make decisions specific to individual students during triadic meetings that include a student, her/his advisor and a family member. Our school board is accountable for the functioning of the school as a business entity (non-profit corporation). We entrust our Principal to make recommendations about how to achieve our mission and to make time sensitive decisions on our behalf. What We Teach At The Farm School students learn as they apply basic skills and content to real-world problems. We use the following lenses into the subject areas to focus our responsive curriculum and to connect what our students learn to their and our community's needs, interests, experiences and values. Science, Math and Technology for Peace, Equality and Sustainability: Applying science, math and technology towards personal, community and planetary peace and sustainability. Social Science for Peace, Equality and Sustainability: Applying social science towards peaceful, equitable, and sustainable solutions to personal, community and international conflicts. Communication Arts for Peace, Equality and Sustainability: Communicating in the service of equality, peace and sustainability for all beings using multiple languages, music, art forms and media (including magazines, newspaper, radio, the Internet, bumper stickers, T-shirts, posters and banners). Being in Our Bodies: Being in and moving our bodies peacefully and sustainably.
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161 Baker Rd
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Risoul, France (SportsNetwork.com) - Poland's Rafal Majka won Stage 14 of the Tour de France on Saturday, while Italian Vincenzo Nibali increased his overall lead in cycling's most prestigious race.
Majka, who was the runner-up to Nibali in the previous stage, completed the 177-kilometer trek on the second day of grueling Alpine climbs in a time of 5 hours, 8 minutes and 27 seconds to claim his first stage victory.
"This is my first pro victory. I was always coming second, third, etc. I needed to win some big stage at the Tour de France," Majka said.
Nibali tightened his grip on the yellow jersey, adding a minute to his overall lead. He is now 4:37 ahead of Spain's Alejandro Valverde, with Frenchman Romain Bardet another 13 seconds back.
"From the team car, I was told, 'If you still have something in the tank, go for it'. I was looking at gaining some time over Alejandro Valverde. I heard that he cracked after I left him," Nibali said.
France's Thibaut Pinot is 5:06 off the pace, while American Tejay Van Garderen is 5:49 behind Nibali in fifth.
Saturday's ride began in Grenoble and ended with an ascension to Montee de Risoul. Majka, a Tour rookie, attacked on the final climb and finished 24 seconds ahead of Nibali.
Stage 14 also saw riders go up and over the punishing Col d'Izoard, the highest point on this year's race.
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My phone will now no longer boot beyond the M Dual Core screen. It is simply blank. Does anyone have any ideas?
Well I'm back working again, but it's still on 206 even though I went through the flashing process to 215. I haven't even thought about updating my phone since installing 206 when it came out. I have read many threads that talk about "unsticking" to get from 206 to 208, but they're over a month old. I can't follow the instructions associated with unsticking because a) they're written for the razr and thus are ridiculously confusing, and b) the one thread that tries to explain how to use unstuckICS for D4 users makes even less sense.
I posted about where to get unstuckICS on another forum and someone directed me back to the Droid4withICSfix-rootLITE tool, which I already had. Step 16 seems to flash (with a TON of error that are supposedly to be expected) but then I can't apply any zip updates. All attempts abort.
This is all so maddening because nothing I try is working. At least my phone isn't a paper weigh. So I have that going for me... which is nice.
here is a boot.img i got from Droid forums https://www.dropbox.com/s/zwl0e6jx76...t-6-16-215.img try using this one and rename it to ICSFIX
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Initial priority should be given to much-needed relief measures, the Church said.
The Israel-Palestinian conflict in Gaza has claimed nearly 1,900 Palestinian lives, most of them civilians, and has left 67 Israelis dead, all but three of them soldiers.
A 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began at 8am local time yesterday.
The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) has announced it is sending £30,000 to provide emergency aid to thousands of people caught in the conflict. It is working with sister charity Caritas Jerusalem and others to provide medical supplies to four hospitals, food, blankets, fuel, soap, buckets and trauma counselling to the most vulnerable.
The Right Reverend John Chalmers, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, said: "In the face of the particular tragedy of Gaza, and the disturbing loss of so many civilian lives, the Church of Scotland actively engages with its local contacts in the region and seeks to support and amplify their efforts in seeking a just and lasting peace for all the people.
"The Church joins with others in welcoming any genuine ceasefire in Gaza."