Faculty Profile

Dr. P.K. Kannan
Associate Professor,
Director, Center for Excellence in Service

Ph.D., Purdue University

Robert H. Smith School of Business
3461 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.2188; 301.405.0146 [ FAX ]
pkannan@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Joined University of Maryland 1995.

P. K. Kannan is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is the Director for the Center of Excellence in Service. His current research stream focuses on new product/service development, design and pricing digital products and product lines, marketing and product development on the Internet, e-service, and customer relationship management (CRM) and customer loyalty. He has received several grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Mellon Foundation, SAIC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers for his work in this area and research papers have been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Communications of the ACM. His research has also won the prestigious John Little Best Paper Award (2008) and the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize Award (2007). Dr. Kannan was a panelist in the NSF Workshop on Research Priorities in e-Commerce (1998) and a Fellow of the AMA Consortium on e-Commerce (2001).

Dr. Kannan serves on the editorial boards of the Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, and International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Dr. Kannan has served as the Chair for the American Marketing Association SIG on Marketing Research.

His teaching interests include customer relationship management, new product development, Internet retailing and pricing and marketing models/research. He has taught these courses in executive programs for Black & Decker, Home Depot, ARINC, McCormick, and Northrup Grumman. He has corporate experience with Tata Engineering and Ingersoll-Rand and has consulted for companies such as Frito-Lay, Pepsi Co, Giant Food, Black and Decker, SAIC, Fannie Mae, and IBM.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards

Winner, John D. C. Little Award for the Best Paper in Marketing Science, Management Science for year 2007, for the paper “New Product Development under Channel Acceptance” (with Lan Luo and Brian Ratchford)

 • Winner, INFORMS Society in Marketing Science Practice Prize Award for 2007 for the paper, “Pricing Digital Content Product Lines: A Model and Application for the National Academies Press,” (Sanjay Jain and Barbara Kline Pope).

Safeway Fellow, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 1999 – 2004

Allan J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence, May 2001.

NSF Grants, 2007-2010, 2002-2005.

 

Selected Publications

Lan Luo, P. K. Kannan, and Brian Ratchford (2008), “Incorporating Subjective Characteristics in Product Design and Evaluations,” Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p182-194.

Lan Luo, P. K. Kannan, and Brian Ratchford (2007), “New Product Development under Channel Acceptance,” Marketing Science, Lead Article, Vol. 26, No. 2, p.149-163.

Jank, Wolfgang and P. K. Kannan (2005), "Understanding Geographical Markets of Online Firms using Spatial Models of Customer Choice," Marketing Science, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Fall), p. 623-634.

Jain, Sanjay and P. K. Kannan, (2002), "Pricing of Information Products on Online Servers: Issues, Models, and Analysis," Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 9, September, pp. 1123-1143.

Kannan, P. K. and Susan Sanchez, (1994), "Competitive Market Structures: A Subset Selection Analysis," Management Science, Vol. 40, No.11, pp. 1484-1499.

McCarthy, Patrick , P. K. Kannan, R. Chandrasekharan, and Gordon Wright, (1992), "Estimating Loyalty and Switching with an Application to the Automobile Market," Management Science, Vol. 38, No. 10 (October), pp. 1371-1394.

Kannan, P. K. and Gordon P. Wright, (1991), "On Testing Competitive Market Structures", Marketing Science, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 338-347.

Kannan, P. K. and Gordon P. Wright, (1991), "Modeling and Testing Structured Markets: A Nested Logit Approach", Marketing Science, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter), pp. 58-82.