Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business will host 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 will bring 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 will be 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 will attend a series of lectures by the top senior researchers in marketing, along with presentations from editors of the top academic journals.

The conference is co-chaired by Jones School marketing professors Richard R. Batsell, Sharad Borle, Ajay Kalra and Amit Pazgal.