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Aliosha
Alexandrov, University of Memphis
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Dissertation title:
Why is online Word-of-Mouth
different? The effect of
information variance on
consumer choice.
Research interests:
Word-of-mouth and social
communication, customer
equity and CRM, branding
and brand equity
Expected graduation
date: 2007
Academic record:
Presented at Summer AMA
(2005) Educators’ Conference.
Accepted papers at Winter
AMA (2006), Summer AMA (2006),
and SMA (2005) conferences.
One paper under revision
for Journal of Service
Research (2006).
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Beth Antonuk,
City University of New York |
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Dissertation title:
The Effect of Temporal
Deadlines on the Likelihood
of Engaging in Anticipated
and Unanticipated Goals
Research interests:
Time-related decisions,
self-differentiation strategies,
and nutrition and eating
behavior
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Paper to be published
in forthcoming issue of
Journal of Nutrition
Education and Behavior.
Presented research at AMA
(2004), MSI (2004), SCP
(2006), and MPPC (2006).
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Jill Avery,
Harvard University |
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Dissertation title:
Saving Face: Consumers’
Collective Negotiation of
Brand Meaning Change
Research interests:
Brand meaning and consumer
identity construction, consumer-brand
relationships and brand
loyalty, and social signaling
via consumption
Expected graduation
date: June 2007
Academic record:
2004 American Marketing
Association Summer Educators
Conference, 2004 Association
for Consumer Research Annual
Conference, 2005 Customer
Advocacy Symposium, Bentley
College, 2006 INFORMS Marketing
Science Conference, and
2006 Advertising and Consumer
Psychology Conference
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Nilufer
Aydinoglu, University of Michigan
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Dissertation title: “Effectiveness of Different Self-Esteem Appeals
in Advertising: Boosting or Confirming Consumers’ Self-Esteem” (First Essay)
Research interests: Self-perceptions / self-esteem, visual
processing, global branding.
Expected graduation date: May 2007
Academic record: Paper being revised for second
submission to Journal of Marketing Research. Presented at SCP (2006); Bilkent University - Seminar in Consumption Theory
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Rajesh Bagchi,
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Research interests:
How facial characteristics
and emotional expressions
influence consumer and managerial
behavior in interpersonal
interactions(negotiations
and persuasion) - social/cognitive
neuroscience perspectives.
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
Paper in Marketing Letters
(2005). Presentations made
at the Marketing Science
Conference (2005, 2006),
SCP (2006), and the DMEF
Conference (2005).
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Syagnik (Sy) Banerjee, University
of Rhode Island |
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Dissertation title:
Mobility and It’s Influences
on Consumer Behavior
Research interests:
Technology-driven transformation
of consumer behavior, Cross
Cultural and Global consumer
behavior, Consumer Ethicality,
Consumer Expertise.
Expected graduation
date: May, 2008
Academic record:
Papers accepted at Atlantic
Marketing Association 2005,
MSI (INFORMS) 2006;
Book Chapter published on:
India and the awakening
of M-commerce (2006)
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Michelle
Beauchamp, Mississippi State
University |
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Dissertation title:
An Empirical Examination
of the Antecedents and Consequences
of the Need for Retail Shopping
Convenience Research
interests: Include
retailing, shopping convenience,
time perceptions, and cross-cultural
research
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented papers at Society
for Marketing Advances (2003,
2004), Best Student Paper
Award, Electronic Commerce
Track, 2003 Society for
Marketing Advances Conference,
currently revising a paper
for resubmission at the
Journal of Marketing
Theory and Practice,
paper under review at the
Marketing Management
Journal
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Jonah Berger,
Stanford University |
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Dissertation title:
Why Tastes Die: Divergence
in Cultural Tastes
Research interests:
Why tastes (e.g., products,
behaviors, and culture in
general) catch on, spread,
and become popular and also
die out. Trends, diffusion,
identity, and social contagion.
Expected graduation
date: June 2007
Academic record:
Presented at ACR (2004-05),
SPSP, (04-06), and SCP (06).
Have published in Cognitive
Science (2005), and
have work under second review
at JCR, JMR, Marketing
Science and JPSP.
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Pelin Bicen,
Texas Tech University |
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Research interests:
Pricing, New Product Development,
Innovation, Competition,
Structural Equation Modeling.
Expected graduation
date: 2008
Academic record:
Paper Presented at AMS (2006),
Paper Presented at Fordham
Pricing Conference (2005),
Paper Presented at International
Statistical Institute (2003)
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Baler Bilgin,
University of Florida |
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Dissertation title:
How Consumers Predict the
Attribute Values of Combination
Products: The Interactive
Effect of Constituent Similarity
and Attribute Alignability.
Research interests:
Categorization, attribute
imputation, consumer memory,
loss aversion, unpacking
effects, temporal construal.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Accepted Paper in Journal
of Consumer Research.
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Darron
Billeter, Carnegie Mellon University
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Dissertation title:
All Thumbs: Errors in
Consumer Learning
Research interests:
Consumer learning,
effective decision
making
Expected
graduation date:
May, 2008 |
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Christopher P. Blocker, University
of Tennessee |
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Dissertation title:
“Exploring the Role of Customer
Value Change and Relationship
Adaptation in Global Business
Services” (global survey
on the dynamics of customer
value for business buyers).
Research interests:
International Buyer Behavior,
Global Marketing Strategy,
Segmentation, and Customer
Value Management.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Articles related to dissertation
topic published in Industrial
Marketing Management
(forthcoming) and Journal
of Business & Industrial
Marketing (forthcoming).
Conference proceedings at
Winter AMA (2005), AMS World
Marketing Congress (Germany,
2005), AMS (2004), Atlantic
Marketing (2004), and Strategic
Management Society (2005).
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Wendy Boland,
University of Arizona |
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Dissertation title:
When You Can’t Get What
You Want; Research Interests:
Choice, Information Processing,
Children and Sales.
Expected graduation date:
May 2008
Academic record:
Presented at the Mittelstaedt
Doctoral Symposium (2006)
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Maureen
Bourassa, Queen's University
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Dissertation title:
“The Meaning and Impact
of Respect in the Context
of Marketing Relationships”
Research interests:
branding and brand personality,
cause related marketing,
corporate social responsibility,
nonprofit and performing
arts marketing.
Expected graduation
date: Fall/Winter 2007
Academic record:
Presenting a paper at the
2006 Academy of Marketing
Science (AMS) Conference.
Presented papers at the
AMA Winter Educators’ Conference
in 2006 and at the Conference
on Historical Analysis &
Research in Marketing (CHARM)
in 2005.
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Brudvig,
Florida State University
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Dissertation title:
Essays on New Product Launch
& Growth Research
interests: Classification
problems, Latent growth
models, Network analysis
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Paper accepted for publication
in Marketing Management
Journal (2006); Papers
presented at Academy of
Marketing Science (2006),
Marketing Management Association
(2005), Society for Marketing
Advances (2004)
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Hernan Bruno,
London Business School |
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Research interests:
Empirical and theoretical
models of competition among
differentiated products
in a distribution channel.
Competition among differentiated
retailers.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at The Marketing
Science Conference, Atlanta
2005, and the IDEI Seminar
of Empirical Industrial
Organization, Toulouse (France)
2006.
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Zhen Cai, Drexel University
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Dissertation title:
Multi-channel marketing
Research interests:
Customer relationship management,
services marketing, salespeople-customer
relationship
Expected graduation
date: July 2008
Academic record:
presented at winter AMA
(2006
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Robert Carter,
University of Cincinnati
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Dissertation title:
Advertising “Spillover”
Effects: Using Panel Sales
Data to Determine When Advertising
on the Line Extension Benefits
the Parent Brand
Research interests:
Researching the consumer
response to marketing mix
variables with a particular
interest in pricing, advertising
and promotion effects, new
products and pioneer advantage,
and interactions between
line extensions and their
respective parent brand
Expected graduation
date: July, 2007 (started
Ph.D. program in September,
2003)
Academic record:
Published paper in the 2005
Summer AMA Conference Proceedings
(Best Paper – Consumer Behavior
Track), presented two papers
at the 2005 Summer AMA conference,
Master of Science in Quantitative
Analysis (expected May 2006)
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Deepa
Chandrasekaran, University of
Southern California |
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Dissertation title:
“Essays on the Turning Points
of the Product Life Cycle”
Research interests:
Cross National Comparisons
of Product Takeoff, Growth
and Slowdown; Innovativeness
of Nations; Diffusion of
Innovations; Product Strategy;
Social Networks
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Chapter in Review of Marketing
Research (2006); Submission
to JMR (submitted March
2006); Best Paper Award,
PDMA Research Forum ’05;
MSI Research Award; Doctoral
Dissertation Proposal Grant
from CIBER, USC; Presented
in PDMA Research Forum (2005),
Marketing Science (2005),
APRU(2005), IIMB and IIMK
(2004) ; Co-chair, International
Conference on Innovation,
IIT Madras (2005)
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Pavan
Chennamaneni, University of
Central Florida |
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Research interests:
Channels of Distribution;
Game Theory; Alliances;
Dynamic Competitive Behavior;
Entertainment Marketing;
Innovation Expected
graduation date: August
2008
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Beom Joon
Choi, University of Kansas
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Dissertation title:
1st essay: Design of Rebate
Promotions: Insights From
a Rational-Actor Perspective
Research interests:
Pricing, promotion, decision
making, advertising, perceived
risk
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at ACR (2005).
Published paper in International
Journal of Electronic Commerce
(2005)
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Cory Cromer,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Research interests:
Interaction of Product and
Process Innovation in Open
System Dynamic Networks.
Expected graduation date:
Spring 2008
Academic record:
Conference paper at Public
Policy & Marketing, June
2006
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Amy Dalton,
Duke University |
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Dissertation title:
Consumption as self-enhancement.
Research interests:
Consumer goal pursuit, self-control,
self enhancement, behavioral
mimicry.
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
Paper accepted at
Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology; presented
research at ACR (2005),
SPSP (2006), and SCP (2006).
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Marjorie
Delbaere, University of Manitoba
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Dissertation title:
Knowledge Transfer and Rhetoric:
The Influence of Rhetorical
Figures on Consumer Learning
Research interests:
Knowledge transfer/utilization,
knowledge management, consumer
learning, health care, rhetoric,
controversial products,
tolerance for ambiguity,
market orientation
Expected graduation
date: July 2007
Academic record:
Paper to be published in
forthcoming issue of
Health Marketing Quarterly
(2006), paper published
in Journal of Knowledge,
Culture and Change Management
(2005). Presented at
Academy of Marketing Science
(2005), Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada (2005,
2004, 2003, 2003), European
Marketing Academy (2004),
e-Business Research Forum
(2003).
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Jonathan
Deschenes, Concordia University
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Dissertation title:
The Dream Factory: An Exploration
of the Institutionalized
Ill Children Wish Granting
Process. Research interests:
Motivation research, consumer
wishes and desires; nonprofit
marketing; epistemology.
Expected graduation
date: Fall 2007
Academic record:
Paper published in
Psychology and Marketing
(2005). Paper under review
in Consumption, Markets
and Culture. Co-author
of a book chapter to be
published in 2006 on reflexivity
and consumer research.
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Rod Duclos,
University of North Carolina |
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Research interests:
Preference formation, Self-control,
Affect & Decision making.
Expected graduation date:
2008.
Academic record:
Presentations at ACR, JRMB,
and the Doctoral Consortium
of the IMC. Currently revising
a paper for JCR.
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Christine
Ebling, University Frankfurt
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Dissertation title:
“Investigating dynamics
in purchase behavior: The
determinants of when, what
and how much to buy.”
Research interests:
Consumer behavior, choice
dynamics
Expected graduation
date: September 2006
Academic record:
“Another look at loss aversion
in brand choice data: Can
we characterize the loss
averse consumer?”
Published paper in International
Journal of Research in Marketing
(2005), presented at
Informs (2004).
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Amber Epp,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Dissertation title:
“Enacting Family: How Families
use Marketplace Resources
to Manage Tensions among
Family, Relational and Individual
Identities.”
Research interests:
Multilevel family identity
enactment processes as related
to consumption activities
and symbols.
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
presented papers at ACR
(2005), ICMD (2005), EACR
(2006) and ACR (2006); co-authored
a book chapter on qualitative
data analysis for SAGE (2006);
submitted manuscripts for
journal review.
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Dinesh Gauri,
State University of New York, Buffalo
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Dissertation title:
Revisiting Retail Promotions:
Consumers’ Efficiency in
Availing them and Retailers’
Success in Using them Research
Interests : Promotion Effectiveness,
Consumer Information Search,
Retail Store Performance,
E-store loyalty, and Empirical
Modeling
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Best Dissertation Proposal
Award from Fordham University
Pricing Center (2006). Honorable
Mention Award for the Levy
and Weitz Doctoral Dissertation
proposal competition sponsored
by the American Marketing
Association Retailing SIG,
and the Miller Center for
Retailing Education and
Research at the University
of Florida (2005). Papers
Under Review in Journal
of Marketing Research
and Management Science.
Presented at Marketing Science
Conference in 2004 and 2005.
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Andrea
Godfrey, University of Texas,
Austin |
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Research interests:
Empirical modeling, consumer
choice behavior, customer
management
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Published paper in Journal
of Marketing (2005), presented
at Marketing Science Conference
(2004, 2005, 2006), presented
at AMA Winter Educators’
Conference (2003, 2006)
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Miranda
Goode, University of British
Columbia |
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Research interests:
The role of emotions
in consumer learning; categorization
and perceptions; money and
the self
Expected graduation
date: August 2008
Academic record:
Presented at SCP (2006);
Presented at ACR (2005);
Presented at SCP (2003)
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Kendall
Goodrich, Florida Atlantic University
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Research Interests:
Online marketing, marketing
strategy, marketing channels,
consumer behavior Expected
graduation date: June
2007
Academic record:
52nd Advertising Research
Foundation Annual Convention
& Trade Show (2006), Annual
Decision Sciences Institute
Conference (2005), Conference
on Historical Analysis &
Research in Marketing (2005).
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Dena Hale,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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Dissertation title:
Consumer Service Decision
Making Self Efficacy: Creation,
Validation, Prediction within
the Decision Making Process
for the Services Industry
Research interests:
Marketing to the Elderly
Segment with Regard to the
Services Industry; Decision-
Making of the Elderly; Self-Service
Technologies: Age/Generation
Cohort Differences; Services,
Information Search and Decision
Quality; Scale Development
Expected graduation
date: August 2007
Academic record:
Published paper in International
Journal of Electronic Marketing
and Retailing (2006).
Conference proceedings/presentations
at Marketing Science INFORMS
(2005 and 2006), Society
for Marketing Science –SMA
(2005), and Frontiers in
Services (2005). Poster
presentation at the 17th
Annual Illinois Rural Health
Association (2006).
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Tracy Harmon,
University of South Florida
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Dissertation title:
“Identity Motives and Shared
Consumption: Consumer Influences
Beyond the Marketing Mix”
Research interests:
Consumer identity motives
and self-concept, identity
threat, consumer managed
relationships and relationship
value, vulnerable consumer
segments and marketplace
risks.
Expected graduation
date: August 2007
Academic record:
Presented at the Association
for Consumer Research (2005)
and won “Best Working Paper
Award”, Society of Marking
Advances (2005), Academy
of Marketing Science (2005),
Winter American Marketing
Association (2005). Will
present at Academy of Marketing
Science (2005), (2006) and
Marketing and Public Policy
Conference (2006).
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Kelly Haws,
University of South Carolina
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Dissertation title:
Consumer Self-Control
Research interests:
Over-consumption related
to spending and food, wasted
consumption, regulatory
focus theory, pricing, consumer
knowledge, construal level
theory
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Forthcoming Paper in
Journal of Consumer Research,
papers at ACR 2004, 2005;
SCP 2004; AMA 2005, 2006
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Ty Henderson,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Dissertation title:
Sales Promotion with a Social
Dimension: A Multi-Category
Embedded Premium Choice
Model with Non-Compensatory
Screening Expected
graduation date: May
2007
Academic record:
Paper conditionally accepted
at Marketing Science
(2006). Presented at Marketing
Science Conference (2005).
Presenting at Marketing
Science Conference (2006).
Presented at Haring Symposium
(2005)
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Jiewen Hong,
Northwestern University
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Research interests:
Affect and Judgment, Consumer
Self-regulation Expected
graduation date: June
2008
Academic record:
“Perceptual Focus Effects
in Choice”, with Ryan Hamilton
& Alexander Chernev, Forthcoming
in Journal of Consumer Research.
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Dongling
Huang, University of Texas,
Dallas |
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Research interests:
Econometric and Time Series
application in Marketing
Expected graduation date:
2007
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Steve Huff,
University of California, Berkeley
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Dissertation title:
Consumer Utility for Product
Rank Research interests:
Experimental econ, social
prefs, info/choice overload,
behavioral econ
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at INFORMS
2005
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Kyle Huggins,
University of Arkansas |
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Dissertation title:
Interaction Ritual Theory:
How Objects Become Sacred
Symbols
Research interests:
Lifestyle consumption
(special possessions and
identity, group interaction,
emotional effervescence),
nutrition perceptions (obesity,
expectancy disconfirmation
theory), and family interaction
(paternal involvement, intergenerational
influence).
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Article in the American
Journal of Public Health
(2006). Won Best Paper
in the Marketing & Society
Track at Winter AMA (2004,
2005). Presented at Marketing
and Public Policy Conference
(2004, 2005), and won Best
Conference Paper Award in
2004. Presented at Macromarketing
Conference (2005).
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Shane Hunt,
Oklahoma State University
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Dissertation title:
The Influence of Sales Management
Control Systems on Individuals
Perceptions of the Organization
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Research has appeared in
the Journal of Personal
Selling and Sales Management
(2005), and presented papers
at the (2004) AMA Summer
Conference, the (2005) National
Conference in Sales Management
and the (2005) Middlestadt
Doctoral Symposium.
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Yogesh Joshi,
University of Pennsylvania
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Dissertation title:
Models and methodologies
for Product Diffusion, Market
Entry, Product Variety,
and Innovation. Competitive
Advertising Strategies.
Expected graduation date:
May 2007
Academic record:
1 paper accepted for publication
in Marketing Science.
Presented at Marketing Science
(2005), and the Winter Product
and Process Innovation Conference
(2004).
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Ekaterina Karniouchina, University
of Utah |
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Research interests:
Cross-disciplinary Issues
in New Products Development,
R&D Collaboration, and Advertising
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
Articles accepted
at Journal of Product Innovation
Management (forthcoming
May 2006) and Marketing
Letters. Work
presented at Marketing Science
Conference (2005), and Mittelstaedt
Doctoral Symposium (2006)
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Zsolt Katona,
INSEAD |
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Research interests:
Game theory in networks,
network formation, on-line
communities Expected
graduation date: June
2008
Academic record:
Presenting at SICS conference
(2006). Currently revising
a paper for Marketing
Science. Paper under
review in JCR.
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Hakkyun Kim,
University of Minnesota
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Dissertation title:
Why consumers rely on affect
in the distant future
Research interests:
Consumer judgment and decision
making related to interplay
of affect and cognition,
temporal distance, counterfactual
thinking, brand extension,
and cross-cultural differences
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
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Theresa
Kirchner, Old Dominion University
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Dissertation title:
Coopetition (Contemporaneous
Cooperation and Competition)
Among Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Research interests:
Management and Marketing
of Nonprofit Arts Organizations;
Organizational Business
Continuity / Disaster Recovery
Expected graduation
date: March, 2007
Academic record:
Paper accepted for publication
in International Journal
of Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector Marketing (2006);
Paper published in Proceedings
of the International Conference
on Arts and Cultural Management
(2005); Published 5 papers
in the Disaster Recovery
Journal (2005, 2003,
2001, 2000); Presented at
International Nonprofit,
Social and Arts Marketing
Colloquium (2005, 2004)
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Minu Kumar,
University of Mississippi
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Dissertation title:
Differentiation and Creating
Value Using Product Design
Research interests:
Radical New Product Development
in The Pharmaceutical Industry
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
American Marketing Association
2005, Society for Marketing
Advances 2004, Design Management
Institute Conference in
Seoul Korea 2004.
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Tarun Kushwaha,
Texas A&M University |
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Dissertation title:
“Essays on Multichannel
Marketing”; “Multichannel
Purchase Behavior: What
Drives It and How Does It
Impact Firm Behavior”; “Optimal
Multichannel Allocation
of Marketing Efforts”
Research interests:
Electronic Commerce Strategy,
Customer Relationship Management,
Network Effects, New Product
Management
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Research paper in advanced
round at Journal of Marketing
Research; Papers presented
at INFORMS Marketing Science
Conference (2005, 2006),
Haring Symposium (2006),
University of Houston Doctoral
Symposium (2005), and AMA
(2004)
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Cristiana
R. Lages, The University of
Warwick |
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Dissertation title:
Dissemination of Customer
Orientation to Frontline
Service Employees: Learning,
Psychological Outcomes,
and Service Recovery Performance.
Research interests:
Service management, service
marketing, relationship
marketing and international
marketing.
Expected graduation
date: December 2006
Academic record:
Published papers in Journal
of International Marketing
(2005); Journal of Business
Research (2005);
Journal of International
Marketing (2004). Published
abstracts/papers in proceedings
of the AMS Conference (2003),
AIB Conference (2003, 2004),
EMAC (2003, 2004, 2005)
and EIBA (2003).
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Xin Liu, Kent State University
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Dissertation title:
Brand Extensions: Affect
Transfer, Network Effects
and Sub-branding Strategy
(three-essay format)
Research interests:
Brand extensions, brand
management, brand equity
measurements, mass customizations
Expected graduation
date: July 2007
Academic record:
presentation at Marketing
Science Conference (2005,
2006), AMA Summer (2006)
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Vincent Mak,
The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology |
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Research interests:
auction, bargaining, buyer-seller
networks, network externalities,
trust and reciprocity, behavioural
game theory
Expected graduation
date: 2008
Academic record:
Paper forthcoming in Journal
of Economic Psychology (2006),
presented at SJDM (2005),
ESA Asia-Pacific (2006)
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Arul Mishra,
University of Iowa |
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Dissertation title:
Influence of spatial arrangement
on consumer choice and preference.
Research interests:
Behavioral decision theory,
processing fluency, affect
and cognition, gestalt processing.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Published papers in Journal
of Consumer Research,
March 2006 and Journal
of Consumer Research,
December 2006 (lead article)
Papers presented at: Association
for Consumer Research (2004,
2005); Society for Judgment
and Decision-Making (2004);
Society for Consumer Psychology
(2005, 2006)
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Ricardo
Montoya, Columbia University
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Research interests:
choice models, state-space
models, structural modeling.
Expected graduation date:
May 2008
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Brian Murtha,
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Research interests:
Sales force effectiveness
models, marketing channels
strategy.
Expected graduation
date: June 2008
Academic record:
Presented at Marketing Science
(2005); Presenting at Summer
AMA (2006).
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Ciju Nair,
Washington University in St. Louis
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Research interests:
Online Search and Purchase
Behavior, Customer Profitability
and Lifetime Value, CRM,
Reference Prices, Marketing
Strategy, Marketing Communications,
Empirical IO, Marketing
Strategy, Marketing Communications
Expected graduation date:
May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at INFORMS Marketing
Science Conference (2006);
Presented at International
Conference on Marketing
Paradigms For Emerging Economies
(2005)
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Sherif Nasser,
New York University |
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Shweta Oza,
University of Maryland |
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Dissertation title:
Essays on Interdependent
Decision Making and Their
Evaluations. Research
interests: Negotiations,
Consumer and managerial
decision making, Firm level
competitive strategy and
its impact on firm performance.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Published in Journal
of Consumer Research
(2006), Presented at Marketing
Science (2003), Association
of Consumer Research (2004,
2005)
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Karen Page,
University of Pittsburgh |
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Dissertation title:
Self-other Connectedness
in Consumer Affect, Judgment,
and Choice Research
interests: Multiple
social identities and group
connectedness; Dimensions
of consumer-brand relationships
and self-brand connectedness
Expected graduation
date: June 2007
Academic record:
Paper in advanced round
at JCR. Paper under
review at JM. Presenting
at Marketing Science (2006).
Presented research at SCP
(2006), ACR (2005), Winter
AMA (2005), and Haring Symposium
(2005).
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Joonwook
Park, Pennsylvania State University
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Dissertation title:
A Hierarchical Bayesian
Finite Mixture
Multidimensional Scaling
Approach for
Accommodating Structural
and Preference
Heterogeneity in Three
Way Preference Data
Research interests:
Multidimensional
scaling, market
segmentation, market
structure, consumer
heterogeneity, choice
modeling, Bayesian
statistics
Expected
graduation date: May
2007
Academic record:
A paper published in
Marketing Science
(2005). A paper
conditionally accepted
at Journal of
Marketing Research.
Papers in advanced
rounds at
Psychometrika and
Marketing Science. |
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Paula Peter,
Virginia Tech |
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Dissertation title:
Emotional reasoning and
decision making: Understanding
emotions that serve people’s
goals.
Research interests:
Consumer Health Behavior,
Emotional Intelligence,
Effects of Cognitive Appraisal
of Emotions on Intention/Behavior,
Acculturation
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented papers at the
2006 Society for Consumer
Psychology Winter Conference,
the 2005 Marketing and Public
Policy Conference, the 2005
Society for Consumer Psychology
Winter Conference, and the
2003 Ninth Cross-cultural
Research Conference.
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J.
Andrew Petersen, University
of Connecticut |
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Dissertation title:
Managing Customers’ Product
Returns Research
interests: Customer
Lifetime Value, Measuring
Customer Advocacy, Managing
Product Returns, and Customer-level
Marketing Strategy
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
JAMS (Fall 2005);
Marketing Research Magazine
(Fall 2004); JSR
(Forthcoming, Fall 2006).
Presented at Winter AMA
(Feb 2006); Presented at
INFORMS Marketing Science
(June 2006
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Amit Poddar,
Georgia State University
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Dissertation title:
Structure and Process of
Channel Program Selections:
Retailer’s Choice among
Parity Trade Promotions
Research interests:
Trade promotions, online
commerce and public policy
issues
Expected graduation
date: August 2007
Academic record:
No published papers yet,
but have presented papers
at AMA (2004), AMA (2005)
and have a paper accepted
at AMA (2006). I also had
a paper accepted at MPCC
(2004) and will be presenting
a paper at the forthcoming
MSI conference in June 2006
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Remco Prins,
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Dissertation title:
Customer Adoption of New
Services Research interests:
New Product Adoption; Customer
Management
Expected graduation
date: October 2007
Academic record:
Presented at Marketing Science
Conference 2005, Atlanta
GA.
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Cheng Qiu,
National University of Singapore
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Dissertation title:
Regulating emotional reactions
towards marketing stimuli
and its consequences
Research interests:
The role of affect and affect-regulation
in consumer judgments
Expected graduation
date: July 2007
Academic record:
ACR (2005), ACR Seoul
(2004)
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Martin
Chun Qiu, University of Alberta
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Dissertation title:
Three Essays in Dealing
with Consumer Uncertainty
in Market Places Research
interests: New Product
Release, Consumer Learning,
Skill Products, e-Commerce.
Expected graduation
date: June 2007
Academic record:
Presented at Marketing Science
Conference (2004, 2005).
Presented at INFORMS Annual
Conference (2005)
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Donglei Qiu,
Purdue University |
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Dissertation title:
Measuring Effects of
Multi-Market Contact in
B2B Exchanges.
Research interests:
Structural modeling, firm
strategies for pricing and
channel of distribution,
B2B marketing.
Expected graduation
date: May, 2007.
Academic record:
Presented at Marketing
Science Conference (2005).
Will present at Marketing
Science Conference (2006),
and INFORMS International
Conference (2006)
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Scott Radford,
University of Missouri |
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Dissertation title:
Have you seen the new
model? Visual design and
product newness
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Research interests:
Consumer behavior, new
product development and
design, and environmental
behavior
Academic record:
Presented at Mittelstaedt
Doctoral Symposium (2005)
and Summer AMA (2005)
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Keith Richards,
University of Houston |
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Dissertation title:
Antecedents and Consequences
of Key Account Relationship
Effectiveness: Assessing
Inter-Firm Fit between Buying
and Selling Organizations
Research interests:
Business to business relationships,
customer relationship management,
marketing strategy, and
professional selling.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Paper under second revision
at Industrial Marketing
Management. Received two
Doctoral Student Fellow
Awards from the National
Conference in Sales Management
(2005, 2006). Received Teaching
Excellence Award from the
University of Houston (2005-2006),
and discussant at Winter
AMA (2005).
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Rishika
Rishika, University of California,
Irvine |
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Research interests:
Structural Models, Empirical
Industrial Organization,
Marketing Strategy
Expected graduation
date: June 2008
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Olivier
Rubel, HEC Montréal
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Dissertation title:
Applications of Dynamic
Games to E-commerce
Research interests:
E-commerce, distribution
channels, competitive strategy,
CRM, email/Spam. Methodology
interests include game theory,
optimal control, bayesian
statistics.
Expected graduation
date: Winter/Fall 2007
Academic record:
One paper accepted in a
peer-reviewed book :
Annals of Dynamic Games.
Presentations made at
Marketing Science Conference
(2005, 2006), The Optimization
Days (2005), and the International
Society for Dynamic Games
(2004, 2006)
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Sachin
Sancheti, Yale University
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Research interests:
Empirical industrial organization,
advertising, pricing, choice
models, customer value
Expected graduation date:
2008
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Gary Schirr,
University of Illinois, Chicago
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Dissertation title:
New Service Development:
User Collaboration in a
Unique Process
Research interests:
My primary interests
are new service/product
development and innovation,
entrepreneurship, and sales.
Secondary interests include
financial services marketing
and international marketing.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
A paper submitted to JPIM
(second revision); another
to JPSSM. Have Presented
at Summer AMA 2005 and upcoming
2006, PDMA 2005, Babson
Entrepreneuship 2005.
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Holger
Schneider, Christian-Albrechts-University,
Kiel |
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Dissertation title:
“Competitive Behavior of
Retailers in Shopbots”
Research interests:
Pricing, electronic commerce
Expected graduation
date: July 2007
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Helder
Sebastiao, University of Oregon
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Dissertation title:
Market Driving: The Construct
and Its Role in the Commercialization
of Innovations. Research
interests: The role
of market driving in the
commercialization of radical
innovations, identifying
and creating market opportunities,
determining whether first
to mindshare is a more relevant
determinant of new product
introduction success than
being first to market, the
development of infrastructure
(e.g. supply chain) in support
of commercialization, and
assessing the relative advantages
of new ventures and incumbent
firms in introducing new
to the world products.
Academic record:
One paper under review at
the Journal of Business
Logistics and one paper
under revision for resubmission
to the Journal of Research
in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
Presented papers include
Winter AMA Educators conference
(2005), the UIC Research
Symposium on Marketing and
Entrepreneurship (2005,
2006), and Council of Supply
Chain Management Professionals
conference (2005).
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Steven Seggie,
Michigan State University
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Dissertation title:
“Interorganizational governance
response strategies to active
and passive ex post opportunism:
Increased understanding
via value-based boundary
constraints”
Research interests:
Marketing channels, inter-organizational
relationships, supply chain
management, governance.
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Paper in press in Journal
of Business Research
(2006), presented at
AIB (2006), presented at
AMA Winter 2006, presented
at ANZMAC (2005).
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Hamed Shamma,
George Washington University
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Dissertation title:
In the area of corporate
branding and the relation
between corporate brand
equity and corporate performance.
Research interests:
Strategic brand management,
services marketing and customer
relationship management.
Expected graduation
date: June 2007.
Academic record:
He is currently working
on research papers related
to measuring corporate brand
equity, the stakeholder
theory in marketing and
customer relationship management
in professional service
organizations. He has presented
a paper at the Academy of
Marketing Science Annual
Conference (2006).
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Kristina
Shampan'er, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology |
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Research interests:
Consumer behavior, JDM,
behavioral and experimental
economics Expected
graduation date: Spring
2007
Academic record:
Paper presented at ACR 2005,
under revision at Marketing
Science.
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Philip Shum,
University of Melbourne
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Dissertation title:
Putting People First in
Successful CRM Implementation:
The Important Roles of Readiness
for Change and Commitment
to Change Expected
graduation date: 2007
Spring
Academic record:
Published papers in ANZMAC
Proceedings (1997, 2004);
presented at Academy of
Management (2006), Academy
of Marketing (2006), ANZMAC
(1997, 2004), HKUST (2002),
INFORMS Marketing Science
(2006), SERVSIG (2005),
and SMA (2004). Recipient
of the SMA Doctoral Dissertation
Competition Best Proposal
Award (2004) and named finalist
in ISBM Doctoral Award Competition
(2004)
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Lauren
Skinner, University of Alabama
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Research interests:
Retailing, supply chain
management, and business
to business relationships.
Academic record:
She has published in the
proceedings for the Society
for Marketing Advances,
Academy of Marketing Science,
and the American Collegiate
Retailing Association Conference.
She currently has articles
under review at Marketing
Education Review, Journal
of Business Research,
and Journal of Personal
Selling and Sales Management.
In addition, she has co-authored
a book chapter on Leader-Member
Exchange Theory, forthcoming
in 2007.
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Jade Sturdy,
Emory University |
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Dissertation title:
Market Signals for Start-Up
Firms in B2B Markets
Research interests:
Market Signaling, Sales
force Compensation, Econometric
Modeling
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at Marketing
Science (2005 and 2006),
Haring Symposium participant
(2006), Finalist ISBM Doctoral
Dissertation Competition
(2005)
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Bharat Sud,
University of Western Ontario
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Research interests:
Multi-category synergies,
Advertising and Product
Quality Expected graduation
date: November 2007
Academic record:
Presenting at Marketing
Science (2006)
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Maciej
Szymanowski, Tilburg University
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Dissertation title:
Reputation Spillover Effects
of Private Labels, a Structural
Approach Research
interests: Structural
dynamic choice models, branding
and private labels, modeling
consumer learning and inference
making
Expected graduation
date: August 2007
Academic record:
IESE Business School, Strategic
alliances: Governance and
Contracts, Barcelona, Spain,
2005, Academy of International
Business, Stockholm, Sweden,
2004; Efact, Europe's Competitive
Position, Fear it or Face
it, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2003.
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Crina Tarasi,
Arizona State University
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Dissertation title:
Balancing Risk and Return
in a Customer Portfolio
Research interests:
Customer mix, customer loyalty
and customer citizenship
behavior
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
Published a chapter titled
Customer Relationship Management,
with Ruth Bolton in Review
of Marketing (2006),
and presented a paper at
the Middlestadt Doctoral
Symposium (2005).
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Marije
Teerling, University of Groningen
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Dissertation title:
The Effect of Online Customer
Attitudes and Behavior on
Offline Channels
Research interests:
(Multi-channel) consumer
behavior, web site effectiveness,
retailing, social networks,
time series analysis, structural
equation modeling
Expected graduation
date: December 2006
Academic record:
Published papers in Journal
of Services Research
Special Issue on Managing
Customers for Profits, Fall
2006. Book chapter with
K.R.E. Huizingh in Demand
Driven Chains and Networks
published by Reed Business
Information, The Netherlands,
2004. Book chapter with
K.R.E. Huizingh in the Jaarboek
van de Markt Onderzoek Associatie
published by De Vrieseborch
– Haarlem, The Netherlands,
2004. Book chapter with
K.R.E. Huizingh in eBRN
Emerging themes from the
E-Business Research Network,
The Netherlands, 2003.
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Pingsheng
Tong, Washington State University
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Dissertation title:
Inside the Black Box of
Information Technology Relationship
Paradox: A Customer-Centric
Perspective of Business
Process Enhancement
Research interests:
Marketing strategy, information
technology and its implications
on firm performance and
channel relationships, customer
relationship management
in retailing, and alliance
relationship management
Expected graduation
date:
May 2007
Academic record:
Published in Technology
and Society (2001),
Proceedings of the13th Robert
Mittelstaedt Marketing Doctoral
Symposium (2004), and Proceedings
of the Sino-America Forum
on Business Management and
Entrepreneurship (2001,
2005); Presented at AMA
(2006), the13th Robert Mittelstaedt
Marketing Doctoral Symposium
(2004), and the Sino-America
Forum on Business Management
and Entrepreneurship (2001,
2005); Paper currently under
review in Journal of
Business Research,
Journal of Business and
Industrial Marketing,
and Journal of Marketing
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Carlos
Torelli, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign |
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Dissertation title:
“Culture and Mental Representations
of Power: Implications for
Information Processing and
Evaluation of Consumer Products.”
Expected graduation date:
May, 2007
Academic record:
Three published papers in
Journal of Consumer Psychology
(2006); Four papers
presented at SCP Winter
Conference (2006); One paper
presented at SCP Winter
Conference (2005); One paper
presented at the La Londe
International Research Seminar
in Marketing (2005).
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Michael
Trusov, University of California,
Los Angeles |
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Dissertation title:
Three Essays on
Internet Marketing
Research
interests: Internet
and e-commerce (social
networks on the
Internet, clickstream
analysis, electronic WOM,
eCRM, recommendation
systems); discrete
choice modeling; data
mining.
Expected
graduation date:
June 2007
Academic record:
Journal of
Interactive Marketing
(conditionally
accepted).
Presentations: Marketing
Science Conference
(2005, 2006), CRM/Datamining
NYU Conference 2005,
Marketing Dynamic
Conference 2006. |
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Mirjam Tuk,
RSM Erasmus University |
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Dissertation title:
Word of mouth and relationship
framing
Research interests:
Consumer behavior, word
of mouth, interpersonal
influence, persuasion.
Expected graduation
date: Fall 2007
Academic record:
Working paper presented
at ACR 2004; Papers presented
at European Marketing Academy
Conference (2005, 2006);
Presented at the doctoral
colloquium of the European
Marketing Academy (2004);
Published in the Dutch
Yearbook of Social Psychology
(peer-reviewed) (2004)
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Sudhir Voleti,
University of Rochester
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Dissertation title:
Valuation of Brands and
Brand portfolios Expected
graduation date: June
2007 or 2008
Academic record:
Published paper in Vikalpa,
January 2004, presenting
paper at the Marketing Science
Conference in June 2006,
an article in Strategic
Marketing, 2001 and
an article in Marketing
Mastermind, ICFAI University
press.
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Nicole
Votolato Montgomery, Ohio State
University |
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Dissertation title:
Temporal Sequence Effects:
A Memory Framework
Research interests:
Consumer Behavior, Judgment
and Decision Making, Experiences
Over Time, Memory
Expected graduation
date: Spring 2007
Academic record:
Published paper in Journal
of Consumer Psychology
(2006), Presented at Society
for Consumer Psychology
(2004) and (2006), Presented
at the Haring Symposium
(2004) and (2006), Presented
at the BDRM Conference (2006)
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Darlene
Walsh, University of Toronto
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Dissertation title:
Understanding the Self-Control
Process Research interests:
Self-control, implicit motivation,
automatic goal activation,
temporal construal, automaticity
Expected graduation
date: June 2007
Academic record:
Presented research at SCP
(2006), Best Student Paper
Award; 2006 (BBCS); and
2002 (ACP)
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Anna Walz,
Louisiana State University
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Dissertation title:
The role of the brand versus
the sales-associate in retail-customer
relationship portfolio development
and hindrance.
Expected graduation
date: May 2008
Academic record:
Presented at Summer AMA
(2005) and American Academy
of Accounting and Finance
(2002)
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| Kai-Yu
Wang, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee |
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Dissertation title:
The Moderating Role of Need
for Cognition and Counterfactual
Thinking on Product Evaluation.
Research interests:
Counterfactual thinking;
non-conscious processes
and processing fluency;
affect and emotion in consumer
judgments
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Presented at ACP (2006),
poster presentation at SCP
(2005), co-authored a book
chapter on Go Figure: New
Directions in Advertising
Rhetoric, forthcoming in
2007; co-authored a book
chapter on Brick & Mortar
Retailing in the 21st Century,
forthcoming in 2007.
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Michael
Wiles, Indiana University
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Research interests:
Organizational and
Individual
Interpretation and Use
of Market Information
Dynamic Capabilities,
Resources, and Brand
Competitive Advantage
How Financial Markets
React to Firm Marketing
Strategies
Expected
graduation date:
June 2007
Academic record:
Published paper in
the Journal of
Personal Selling and
Sales Management and
have papers under
advanced review at the
Journal of Marketing
and the Journal of
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Brian Williams,
University of Georgia |
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Dissertation title:
Markets of One: Exploring
the Profitability Drivers
for Customized B2B Products
Research interests:
Complex business relationships,
B2B marketing effectiveness,
marketing strategy
Expected graduation
date: May 2007
Academic record:
Research published in
Industrial Marketing
Management (forthcoming)
and Journal of Personal
Selling and Sales Management
(2004). Two papers currently
in second-round review stage.
Several conference presentations/papers,
including AMS (2005), MSI
(2006), and Winter AMA (2006).
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Yu, Cornell University
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Research Interests:
Marketing Modeling, Econometrics,
Pharmaceutical industry,
Empirical Industrial Organization
Expected graduation
date: May, 2009
Academic record:
Paper presentation at 2006
Marketing Science Conference;
“Pioneering Advantage in
Generic Drug Competition”,
(with Sachin Gupta and Rahul
Guha)
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Ying Zhang,
University of Chicago |
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Dissertation title:
Living for the future:
The optimism bias in
goal pursuit
Research
interests:
Self-regulation in the
pursuit of conflicting
goals; Cognitive
properties of consumer
goals; Affect in
decision making
Expected
graduation date:
June 2007
Academic record:
Presented at ACR and
SPSP, and published in
JCP, JPSP.
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Mohammadali Zolfagharian, University
of North Texas |
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Research interests:
While mainly oriented towards
marketing of services and
consumer behavior, Mohammad’s
research has intersected
with marketing channels,
ethical/social marketing,
arts marketing, marketing
strategy, and franchising.
As a student of culture,
he has also participated
in several ethnographic
projects, benefiting the
North Texas community.
Academic record:
Served as reviewer, session
chair, and session discussant
for AMA and AMS conferences.
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