2025-07-01 dynamic pricing **Stream 1: Joint Optimization in Operations (40%)** - Newsvendor extensions: Multiple decision variables - Supply chain coordination: Tang (2006) joint pricing-inventory - Service operations: Cachon & Harker (2002) scale/scope decisions - Gap: "No model optimizes operational variables (q) and market parameters (β) simultaneously" **Stream 2: Learning in Operational Settings (35%)** - Bayesian newsvendor: Scarf (1959), Azoury (1985) - Adaptive inventory: Huh et al. (2009) data-driven newsvendor - Demand learning: Besbes & Muharremoglu (2013) - Gap: "Assume single variable learning; we need joint (q,β) learning" **Stream 3: Robust Operations (25%)** - Distributionally robust: Delage & Ye (2010) - Data-driven robust: Bertsimas et al. (2018) - Gap: "Focus on uncertainty sets; we model uncertainty through heterogeneous priors" **Positioning**: "Natural extension of joint optimization to settings where both operational choices and market parameters must be learned simultaneously"