Julia Morrison, PhD

Manager, Operations Research Center of Excellence in Revenue Management, Marriott International

Julia Morrison is Director of the Operations Research Center of Excellence in Revenue Management Systems at Marriott International. She is involved in a variety of projects, including demand forecasting, pricing, and profit optimization. One of her recent projects, Group Pricing Optimizer, received the 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award. Prior to joining Marriott, Morrison was a consultant with McKinsey & Co., where she specialized in pricing and customer and store segmentation, primarily in retail and consumer packaged goods sectors. She also developed a variety of analytical tools used in solving a range of business problems, from sales force territory re-design to store labor scheduling. Morrison holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University and a B.S. in Applied Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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