Nanda Kumar

Ph.D., Chicago


Professor of Marketing
Naveen Jindal School of Management, SM 32
UT Dallas
Richardson, TX 75080

Phone: (972) 883 6426
email: nkumar@utdallas.edu

Education

Ph.D., Management Science, University of Chicago
M.S., Computer Science, University of Maryland
B.Tech. (First Class), Computer Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India

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Awards & Honors

·  Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2003

·  Honorable Mention Davidson Award, 2003 (for article published in Journal of Retailing, 2001)

·  Fellow, Doctoral Consortium at Universityof Cincinnati, 1997

·  Fellowship, University of Chicago

·  Research & Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, 1991-1992

·  National Talent Scholarship, NCERT, India, 1983-1990

Published Research

·  Effective Category Management Depends on the Role of the Category (2001), with Sanjay Dhar and Steve Hoch (Lead Article, Journal of Retailing, v77, n2, pp. 165-84)

·  Effectiveness of Trade Promotions: Analyzing the Determinants of Retail Pass-Through (2001), with Abel Jeuland and Surendra Rajiv, (Lead Research Article, Marketing Science, v20, n4, pp. 382-404)

·  Comment on Revisiting Dynamic Duopoly with Consumer Switching Costs (2004), with Eric Anderson and Surendra Rajiv, Journal of Economic Theory, 116, pp. 177-186

·  Using Basket Composition Data for Intelligent Supermarket Pricing (2006), with Ram Rao, Marketing Science, v25, n2, pp. 188-199

·  On Manufacturer's Complementing the Traditional Retail Channel with a Direct Online Channel (2006), with Ranran Ruan, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, v4, n3, pp. 289-323

·  On Customized Goods, Standard Goods and Competition (2006), with Niladri Syam, Marketing Science, v25, n5, pp. 525-537

·  Price Competition with Repeat, Loyal Buyers (2007), with Eric Anderson, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 5 (13)

·  Private Label Vendor Selection in a Supply Chain: Quality and Clientele Effects (2010), with Suresh Radhakrishnan and Ram C. Rao, Journal of Retailing, v86, n2, June 2010, pp. 148-58

·  Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM versus CPC (2012), with Kursad Asdemir and Varghese S. Jacob, Information Systems Research, v23, n3, Part 1 of 2, September 2012, pp. 804-822

·  Content Provision Strategies in the Presence of Content Piracy (2012), with Monica Johar and Vijay Mookerjee, Information Systems Research, v23, n3, Part 2 of 2, September 2012, pp. 960-975

·  Consumer Stockpiling and Competitive Promotional Strategies, with Manish Gangwar and Ram C. Rao (2014), Marketing Science, v33, n1, pp. 94-113

· Price Matching Guarantees with Endogenous Consumer Search, with Juncai Jiang and Brian T. Ratchford, Management Science v63, n10, pp. 3489-3513

· Product Line Bundling: Why Airlines Bundle High-End While Hotels Bundle Low-End, with Steven M. Shugan, Jihwan Moon and Qiaoni Shi, Marketing Science, v36, n1, pp. 123-139

· Emerging Trends in Product Bundling: Investigating Consumer Choice and Firm Behavior, with Vithala R. Rao, Gary Russell, Hemant Bhargava, Alan Cooke, Tim Derdenger, Hwang Kim, Irwin Lewin, Yu Ma, Nitin Mehta, John Pracejus and R. Venkatesh, Customer Needs and Solutions, v5, pp. 107-120

·  Pricing Under Dynamic Competition When Loyal Consumers Stockpile, with Manish Gangwar and Ram C. Rao, Marketing Science, Forthcoming

Editorial Service

·  Editorial Board, Marketing Science

·  Editorial Board, Review of Marketing Science

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Marketing Research

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Marketing

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Management Science

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Retailing

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Operations Research

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science

·  Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Research in Marketing

Doctoral Supervision

·  Ranran Ruan (Marketing), Co-Chaired with Prof. Ram Rao, Fall 2002

·  Hasan Cavusoglu (MIS), Co-Chaired with Prof. Rajiv Banker, Summer 2003

·  Hurrem Yilmaz (Marketing), Summer 2003

·  Kursad Asdemir (MIS), Co-Chaired with Prof. Varghese Jacob, Spring 2004

·  Manish Gangwar (Marketing), Co-Chaired with Prof. Ram Rao, Summer 2009

·  David Richardson (Marketing), Co-Chaired with Prof. Ram Rao, Summer 2011

Teaching

·  Database Marketing (MKT 6223)

·  Marketing Management (MKT 6301)

 

Miscellaneous
 

Economics resources on the Web:
 

Electronic Papers in Economics

WWW Resources in Economics

Printed Papers in Economics


Working Paper Archive

Game Theory on the Web:
 

What is Game Theory?

Game Theory Stuff

Center For Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory
 


Computing Aids:
 

Numerical Recipes

Econometrics Lab at Berkeley

Gauss Programming for Econometricians

Some Gauss Programs

Other Interests:
 

Squash

Pro Basketball