Faculty Profile

Jie Zhang
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Robert H. Smith School of Business
3311 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

301.405.7899
301.405.0146 fax
jiejie@rhsmith.umd.edu

 

Joined University of Maryland 2006

Jie Zhang is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Her general research interest is to apply econometric and statistical models to study consumers’ purchase behavior and response to various promotion programs, and then to design innovative decision support tools for marketers based on these models. She is particularly interested in their applications in the Internet shopping environment. Her recent research projects focus on online promotion customizations and shopping behavior, and various topics that aim at improving decision making for retail management in general. Her research has won the Procter & Gamble Marketing Innovation Research Award and has been sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute. She has published articles in leading marketing and management journals such as Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, and Management Science.

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Selected Publications

Zhang, Jie and Michel Wedel (2007), “The Effectiveness of Customized Promotions in Online and Offline Stores,” Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming.

Zhang, Jie and Aradhna Krishna (2007), “Brand Level Effects of Stock-Keeping-Unit Reductions”, Journal of Marketing Research, 44 (November), 545-559.

Pieters, Rik, Michel Wedel, and Jie Zhang (2007), “Optimal Feature Advertising Design under Competitive Clutter,” Management Science, 53 (11), 1815-1828.

Zhang, Jie (2006), “An Integrated Choice Model Incorporating Alternative Mechanisms for Consumers’ Reactions to In-Store Display and Feature Advertising”, Marketing Science, 25 (3), 278-290.

Wedel, Michel and Jie Zhang (2004), “Analyzing Brand Competition across Subcategories,” Journal of Marketing Research, 41 (November), 448-456.

Zhang, Jie and Lakshman Krishnamurthi (2004), “Customizing Promotions in Online Stores,” Marketing Science, 23 (4), 561-578.

 

Honors and Awards

Robert H. Smith School Top 15% Teaching Award, 2006/2007

University of Maryland General Research Board Award, 2007

Marketing Science Institute Research Grant, 2002-2003

Procter & Gamble Marketing Innovation Research Award, 1998-99

Haring Doctoral Symposium Faculty Representative, 2001

AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 1998