Consortium Fellows Biographical Sketches

Ray L. Benedicktus is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. His research has engaged topics related to services strategy, multi-channel retailing, and consumer attitudes. Ray has published his work in the Journal of Interactive Advertising, a forthcoming book, Bricks and Mortar Shopping in the 21st Century, and presented papers at several conferences including Advertising and Consumer Psychology, AMS and Winter AMA. Ray is currently developing a dissertation exploring the mechanisms underlying the processing of physical store presence information in multi-channel retail environments. Ray Benedicktus can be contacted at College of Business, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, Phone 850-644-4417, Fax 850-644-4098, email: rbenedicktus@fsu.edu.

Leff Bonney (M.B.A., University of Georgia) is a marketing doctoral student at the University of Tennessee. Prior to graduate studies, Leff held sales and marketing management positions in two different Fortune 500 companies (business services and pharmaceutical sectors). He holds an MBA from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor's from The University of Tennessee. His research interests include B2B marketing, marketing strategy and entrepreneurship. Specifically, he is doing research in customer centric marketing, customer level innovation and market orientation. Leff has articles under review at The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, and Industrial Marketing Management with various working papers soon to follow. Leff and his wife own a small company and have three children ages six, four and two.

Erin Cavusgil is a doctoral student at Michigan State University. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She spent 3.5 years working in the pharmaceutical industry as a chemical engineer. Her main area of research is new product development.

Kimmy Chan holds a bachelor degree in the Business Administration of Marketing and she is now a fourth-year PhD student of the University of Hong Kong. Prior to entering the doctoral program, she worked for two years as a research assistant in the Department of Marketing at the University of Hong Kong. She joined an exchange program in the W. P. Carey Department of Marketing as a visiting scholar in her third-year study. Her research interests focus on the roles of customers and employees in delivering services, including customers' role as co-producers, the love relationship that customers built with the employees, and also the failures and recovery on services delivery. Her work has been presented in scholarly conferences and her papers are being under reviewed and published in leading marketing and services journals including Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Customer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Complaining Behavior, and Journal of Consumer Marketing. She has received Marketing Education Fund and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship Awards for her existing research.

Zoë Chance is a second-year student at Harvard Business School. She is currently working on a variety of studies investigating how subconscious cues affect decision making outcomes, with an emphasis on social welfare. Her first publication, a book chapter with Rohit Deshpandé titled "Fighting AIDS, Fighting Poverty," was published in 2007. Other areas of study include motivated forgetting (with Mike Norton); social dominance in coordination games (with Shane Frederick and Roberto Weber); and the impact of violence on word-of-mouth and brand recollection for video games (with Rohit Deshpandé).

Zoë earned her B.A. with honors in English from Haverford College and her MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining the doctoral program at Harvard, she managed the Barbie and SpongeBob toy brands at Mattel.

Desmond Ho-Fu Lo is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Master's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara (both in Economics). He has also worked in managerial capacities at multinational corporations in their China and Hong Kong operations. Desmond's research focuses on vertical agreements in distribution channels. His current research projects include contractual and non-contractual aspscts between manufacturers and dealers, and sales force compensation and delegation. He is also interested in vertical restraints and their relations with antitrust laws.

Liangyan Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate in marketing from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Wang has an M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from University of California, Irvine.
Ms. Wang has a keen interest in anti-smoking research, and has been working on Prof. Pechmann's youth smoking prevention grants for over three years. In the current half million Entertainment Education project, she assisted in all aspects of the project especially literature review and data analysis. She has a very thorough understanding of the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct and other theories and papers related to social norms and reference group influence. Her research interests include: 1) studying the impact of social norms and social influence mechanism on consumer behavior; 2) how social normative influence, self-concept, and social identification interact in impacting human behavior, in particular, risky behavior involving substance abuse and unhealthy junk food eating; 3) how self-regulatory strategies moderate the effects of normativeness in advertising messages. Also Ms. Wang is the co-winner of ACR-Sheth dissertation proposal competition 2006.

Juliano Laran is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration. His research interests focus on self-regulation in the consumer domain, cognitive properties of goals, and associative learning. He has presented papers in several conferences such as AMA Winter, ACR, and SCP. Juliano currently has papers under review at the Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, and the Journal of Marketing. His doctoral dissertation deals with behavioral consistency and inconsistency when consumers face two self-regulatory decisions in consumption situations.

Joseph Lajos is a third-year doctoral candidate at INSEAD. Joe is currently conducting a variety of studies about branding and the role of affect in consumer information processing. Joe's dissertation will address the theoretically and managerially important question of whether real world brand equity transfers into emerging virtual consumer societies such as Second Life. His working paper "CAM: A Spreading Activation Network Model of Subcategory Positioning" (co-authored with Zsolt Katona, Amitava Chattopadhyay, and Miklos Sarvary) is the winner of the 2006 Association for Consumer Research Best Working Paper Award.

Before joining INSEAD, Joe earned a B.S. summa cum laude in Business Administration from the USC Marshall School of Business and a B.A. summa cum laude in Broadcast Journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

Please feel free to contact Joe by email at joseph.lajos@insead.edu or by phone at +33.1.6072.9228. For more information about Joe, please visit his website at www.insead.edu/phd/careers/jlajos/index.cfm

Sagit Harel-Tal is a 4th year PhD candidate majoring in Marketing at the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester. She has a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA with a Marketing concentration from Bar Ilan University, Israel. Sagit's work involves choice models and product planning in B2B. Specifically, she is investigating specific choice drivers of technological products. On the empirical side, Sagit is interested in Bayesian methods and Dynamic Programming applications. Before starting her PhD, Sagit was a full time lecturer at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, teaching Statistics, Probability and programming (C/C++). Prior to that, she worked as a C/C++ programmer for graphical applications.

Ze Wang is a third year PhD student at School of Business, University of Kansas. Her main research interests lie in resistance to persuasion and the role of emotions in services. She is investigating the customers' responses to employees' affective display at various service contexts. Her dissertation focuses on the unintended (un)desired effects of unredeemed coupons. Ze served the president of KU Association of Business Doctoral Students in 2005-2006.

Mayukh Dass is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (expected in Spring 2008), Terry College of Business and a Master's student in Statistics (expected in Summer 2007), at the University of Georgia. He holds a M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Georgia and a B.Engg. in Electronics and Power from the Nagpur University, India.

Mayukh's research interest centers on issues related to auctions of heterogeneous products. Particularly, he is investigating how price formation takes place during online auctions, how bidder interdependence plays an important role and how bidding information can be used to analyze market structure of these heterogeneous products. Mayukh's research work on price formation has been published in Statistical Science and his study on bidder interdependence is in second round of review at the Journal of Marketing Research. His M.S. thesis involved developing a new architecture for detecting and learning online intrusions using Artificial Intelligence and has a patent pending.

Mayukh was awarded Product Development and Management Association Fellowship to attend their annual international conference in 2005 and 2006. He also won the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in 2006 for his outstanding teaching efforts in undergraduate classes.

Ivan Lapuka is currently Ph.D. Candidate at the University of South Florida. His research and teaching interests are concentrated on channels of distribution, supply chain management, marketing strategy, and global marketing. Ivan's research has appeared in conference proceedings of the American Marketing Association, the International Society of Franchising, the Society for Marketing Advances, the American Educational Research Association, the Eastern Educational Research Association, and the Southwest Business Symposium.

Born and raised in the city of Minsk, Ivan received his education in Belarus and the U.S., earning a bachelor's degree in Business Administration at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, a specialist's degree in Translation & Interpreting at Minsk State Linguistic University, and a master's degree in Business Administration at Eastern New Mexico University.

Ivan's professional background is comprised of five years of progressively responsible managerial experience in the areas of B2C and B2B strategy. Ivan has been involved in private-sector consulting projects for banks, automotive dealerships, and FMCG firms. Following his life-long passion for languages, Ivan also worked as a translator/interpreter facilitating the United Nations Development Program and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.

Isabel Verniers is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University, Belgium. She holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests focus on the international launch of pharmaceutical innovations, which is the topic of her dissertation. She also did research on scientometrics in marketing (in collaboration with Stefan Stremersch and Peter C. Verhoef) which resulted in the paper 'The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact' (forthcoming in Journal of Marketing). Isabel Verniers can be contacted at Isabel.Verniers@Ugent.be.

Anthony Asare is third year marketing Ph.D. candidate in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) at Amherst. He received a BA (Hons) in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and an MBA from UMASS. Prior to joining the PhD program, Anthony worked in different capacities in business to business, logistics, and technology companies. Anthony also started and managed a couple of companies before finally deciding to join the academic world.

Ping Xiao is a PhD candidate at Washington University, in Saint Louis. She holds a Bachelor of Management from University of Science and Technology of China. Her research interests focus on empirical models on product bundling and nonlinear pricing, consumer online browsing behavior and Bayesian analysis and application in Marketing. She has presented papers in Marketing Science conference and Quantitative Marketing and Economics conference. Her doctoral dissertation deals with product bundling under three-part tariff pricing.

Tuck S. Chung is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has a Master of Arts (Asia Pacific Studies) degree from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), and a First Class Honors in Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. He has six years of industry working experience both in the service and goods industry. While he was working in Unilever, he was a manager in the area of Market Development, Key Account Management and logistics covering both domestic and regional markets. Tuck's research interests include Service Models, Electronic Services, Bayesian Modeling, and Reinforcement Learning. He has published his work in Marketing Science. He has also presented papers at several conferences including 2003 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, 2nd Annual Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce, 2006 INFORMS Management Science Conference and 2007 AMA Winter Educators Conference. Tuck's dissertation topic is in the area of Sequential Monte Carlo and Bayesian Model Averaging estimation of consumer music preferences, and the Bayesian Experimental designing of consumer ideal music playlist. On top of his dissertation, Tuck is also presently writing papers in the area of multiple-agents' learning and spatial service adoption model.

Gina S. Mohr is a third year doctoral student in Marketing at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She received her B.A. in Economics at the University of Colorado in 2002. Gina's research focuses on consumer decision making and choice in the domain of health and nutrition. In particular, she investigates how social factors may moderate eating behavior and the effect of peripheral product features on consumers' abilities to fulfill health and nutrition goals. Additional research projects include an investigation into the persuasive appeals made by product placement in television, and how these appeals may be attenuated via disclosures. In addition, she has studied the effect of multi-sensory external cues on the processing, evaluation and identification of olfactory stimuli in the consumer environment.

Sandeep Chandukala is a fourth year PhD student at Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MBA from University of Texas at Dallas and M.S. in E-Commerce from University of Texas at Dallas. As an MBA student at UTD, Sandeep was a recipient of academic excellence award and cohort ambassador award. His industry experience includes two years as a Software Developer/ Advisor at Dell Computer Corporation, Round Rock, Texas. Sandeep is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Quantitative Marketing, and his research interests include areas of Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Advertising and Consumer Memory.

Douglas E. Hughes is a doctoral candidate in Marketing at the University of Houston with an expected graduation date of May 2008. His dissertation topic, "Beyond Pull ? Advertising's Role as a Push Mechanism," explores the push-pull dynamics of advertising, and ongoing research interests involve the marketing-sales interface, organizational change, buzz marketing, and behavioral (consumer and intra-organizational) aspects of marketing strategy. Hughes has a paper conditionally accepted at Industrial Marketing Management, a paper in advanced review at International Journal of Research in Marketing, and papers under review at Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Advertising. He also has presented research at Winter AMA and Summer AMA 2006. Hughes is a 2007 National Conference in Sales Management doctoral fellow, and is a finalist for the University of Houston Provost's 2007 Teaching Excellence Award. He holds an M.B.A from Michigan State University and B.S. (Marketing) from the University of Tennessee. In addition to his academic credentials, Hughes brings with him a rich background in consumer goods marketing, including director level positions at The Coca-Cola Company and Miller Brewing Company, along with experience as CEO of a B2B services firm.

Preethika Suresh is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (expected Summer 2008) and a Masters in Economics (expected Summer 2007)at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Preethika completed her undergraduate degree at Purdue University and then got an two (MBA, MIS) Masters degrees from UT Dallas. She has presented in the Marketing Science conference at Atlanta and will be presenting this year at Singapore. Her primary research interest is in the area of pricing under uncertainty. Preethika's dissertation involves investigating the role of options and forwards in a consumer context. In order to gain different perspectives on consumer behavior she uses a combination of analytical, empirical and experimental approaches.

Aaron Arndt (M.B.A. - Washington State University) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing and Supply Chain Management at the University of Oklahoma. He has published in Journal of Retailing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, International Journal of Logistics Management and Business Horizons. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, he worked in finance for two years as a salesman and as a loan processor.

Maggie Wenjing Liu is a third year PhD candidate from Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She holds a Master's degree in Management from NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, as well as a BA in Economics from University of International Business and Economics. Maggie's research interest is in behavioral decision-making in general, and are working on several projects on debiasing, intertemporal choice, time perception, and pricing.

Maggie has presented her work in several conferences including 2005 and 2006 JDM, 2006 SCP, and 2006 ACR. She had a book chapter on behavioral pricing forthcoming in Handbook of Consumer Psychology (with Dilip Soman). More information about Maggie Wenjing Liu could be found at http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/wenjing.liu04/

Maria Ana Vitorino is a PhD candidate at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Catholic University of Portugal and a Master's degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics.

Maria Ana's research interests include firms' pricing strategy, consumer-choice models and using game-theoretic modeling to explain the strategic impact of firms' entry decisions. Broadly, she is interested in empirical applications of statistics and economic models of industrial organization to marketing.

Richard Joseph is a third year PhD candidate in the Department of Marketing at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. Richard's research interests include marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship. His PhD research focuses on the role of customers and other external influencers in the development of radical or new-to-the-world products. This research uses network analysis to investigate how, when and which types of customers are involved in the development of both successful and unsuccessful new products. Richard's proposal relating to this study won the AMA Marketing & Entrepreneurship SIG Doctoral Proposal Award in 2006. Before returning to university to undertake his PhD Richard worked for eight years in business-to-business marketing roles in both New Zealand and the UK.

Jacqueline van Beuningen is a third year PhD candidate in Marketing at Maastricht University (expected graduation in August 2008). She studied Communication Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and received her Master's degree with honours in 2004. After graduation, she joined the Marketing department at Maastricht University. Her research interests include: self-efficacy formation in co-production services, trait-state effects on self-efficacy and decision making, and effects of training on formation of relationship beliefs.

Michelle Barnhart completed her undergraduate study at Stanford University in 1994, earning a degree in Biology. She spent the next two years conducting biomedical research in an academic setting, and the following 8 years in the health care industry in both a small start-up company and a mid-sized corporation. Her management experience includes sales, customer service, operations, and government contracts. Michelle entered the Marketing PhD program at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2004. She transferred to the University of Utah in the fall of 2006 with an anticipated graduation date of May 2009. Her advisor is Dr. Lisa Penaloza. Michelle's current research interests include the role of consumers, market agents, and socio-cultural norms in the financial services market in the US, and changes in consumer agency with advancing age and/or illness. Michelle's personal interests include spending time with her husband, John, and their two dogs, Kiya and Kinsley.

Auke Hunneman is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics, at University of Groningen. Auke studied business economics at the University of Groningen in the period 1999-2004. Within the field of Marketing, he specialized in Marketing Research and Interactive Marketing.

His current research is aimed at developing new methodologies that help to improve store location decision-making from a retailer perspective (joint work with Tammo Bijmolt), which is the topic of his dissertation.

Xiaohua Zeng is a PhD candidate at University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. She holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Statistics from Renmin University of China and a Master degree in management of information systems at National University of Singapore. Her research interests include distribution channels, pricing and e-marketing. She has presented her research work in Marketing Science conference. Her doctoral dissertation explores the strategic implications of the no-haggle price option in the automobile market.

Marie-Agnès Parmentier is a third year PhD student at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. Her research falls within the Consumer Culture Theoretics tradition. Specifically, she is interested in consumers' agency and empowerment as well as topics related to human-brand management.

Marie-Agnès's research has been published in various outlets. She is the co-author of a forthcoming book chapter in Consumer Culture Theory I, Research in Consumer Behavior Series, eds. R. W. Belk and J. F. Sherry Jr. She presented her work at a number of conferences such as: the Consumer Culture Theory Conference, the 8th Association for Consumer Research Gender, Marketing and Consumer Research Conference, and the Third International Conference on Cultural Policy

Prior to her doctoral studies, Marie-Agnès obtained a Master of Science in Business at HEC Montréal, with a focus on Arts Marketing. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a post-secondary diploma (CEGEP) in Fashion Marketing from LaSalle College, Montréal. Marie-Agnès has won several scholarships, notably the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS).

Clinton Lanier is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Marketing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology from Loyola University-New Orleans. He also holds an MA in philosophy and an MBA from Texas A&M University. After completing his MA, he spent about six years in the building materials industry in both B2C and B2B roles. Since joining the Ph.D. program, he has worked primarily in the areas of consumer behavior and public policy. He has a forthcoming co-authored book chapter on consumer co-creation in Research in Consumer Behavior and has presented papers at several conferences including AMA (Summer and Winter), ACR, and CCT. A paper that he co-authored on consumer privacy protection won the best paper award in the Public Policy and Ethical Issues track at the 2005 Summer AMA conference.

Mitchell Lovett is a doctoral candidate at Duke University (expected graduation 2008). He holds a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from Boise State University, where he did coauthored research on the role of marketing actions on financial market perceptions that was published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences. His early research interests were on marketing strategy and resulted in a co-authored paper with Chris Moorman that is being revised for resubmission to the Journal of Marketing on how firms learn about marketing to generate competitive advantage. This research won the 2006 ISBM Silver Medalist Award.

His current research interests have concentrated on understanding consumer and firm behavior using the tools of quantitative marketing. He has presented research at the Marketing Science Conference in 2005 on how consumers learn when product quality is changing and in 2006 on how firms can forecast choice sets to improve customized product offerings. The former research is targeted for submission to Marketing Science by Spring 2007. He is also working on research that analyzes the role of negative advertising on political campaigns. His dissertation will contain these projects as three essays with proposal defense targeted for Spring 2007.

Adriana M. Bóveda-Lambie is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Rhode Island College of Business. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Maryland College Park, and a M.A. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to entering her doctoral program, she spent 9 years gaining valuable marketing and advertising experience in Ryder Managed Logistics Systems, Young & Rubicam Latin America, Interamerican Marketing Solutions and Americatel Corporation in various advertising, marketing management and customer service roles.

Her main research interests include online social networks and mobile marketing, cross-cultural and ethnic consumer behavior, social identity and group influences. Some of her current research includes self-brand connections, motivational cues of biculturals, emotional components of brands and online social networks. Mrs. Bóveda-Lambie was a University of Rhode Island Graduate School Minority Graduate Fellow for the 2005-2006 academic year. She has presented her research at the 2005 AMA Summer Educators Conference, the 2006 Academy of Marketing Science Conference and the 2007 AMA Winter Educators' Conference. She will also co-chair the Ethnic and Minority Marketing Track at the upcoming AMS Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference.

Please feel free to contact Adriana by email at aboveda@mail.uri.edu. For more information about Adriana, please visit her website at www.cba.uri.edu/aboveda.

Andy W. Hao is a doctoral candidate at Kent State University. He received his Bachelor's degree from Peking University, and a MBA degree from Kent State University. Prior to entering the doctoral program, he worked for seven years in Department of Commerce of China. His research interests include branding, international marketing, e-marketing, entrepreneurship, and marketing strategy. Specifically, he is doing research in global brand extension, consumer ethnocentrism, cross-cultural consumer behavior, online auction, and market orientation.

Elaine Chan is a third-year marketing doctoral student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include time & decisions, self-discrepancies & goal-directed behavior, and persuasion & attitude strength. Currently, she is working on a variety of projects in these areas. One paper (co-authored with Anirban Mukhopadhyay) focuses on how different temporal distances lead people to either discount or anticipate the delayed consumption of hedonic products (under preparation for resubmission to the Journal of Marketing Research). Another paper (co-authored with Jaideep Sengupta) investigates the effects of flattery from dual attitudes and attitude strength perspective (under preparation for submission to the Journal of Consumer Research). A third project (co-authored with Anirban Mukhopadhyay) explores how discounting may operate as a lay belief that people apply when evaluating hedonic consumption at different temporal distances.

Peter Jarnebrant is a third year Ph.D. student in the Columbia Business School marketing department, where Eric Johnson is his advisor; he joined the program in 2004 after graduating from Yale with a B.A. in Economics. Since 2006 he's been a fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Several of his studies relate to mental accounting-type processes in decision making, such as the interaction of memory phenomena and stimulus presentation; part of this work (with Eric Johnson and Olivier Toubia) was presented at the ACR conference in 2006.

Luke Kachersky is a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York. He holds a BS in marketing and an MBA with a specialization in marketing management, both from St. John's University (NY). Luke's research interests include the role of self-concept in consumer decision-making, and the psychology of pricing. Luke co-authored a paper on price salience published last year in The Journal of Product and Brand Management, and has presented other work at the Association for Consumer Research 2006 North American conference and the Society for Consumer Psychology 2007 winter conference.

Shrihari (Hari) Sridhar is a third year doctoral student (expected May 2009) at the University of Missouri. He has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (India) and a Masters in Engineering Management (Missouri). His primary research interest focuses on studying ROI and optimal resource allocation in dual revenue markets such as newspapers. He also studies similar problems in trade show and motion picture settings. His work has been published in the Journal of Marketing and Marketing Letters.

Carlos Lourenco (MPhil in Marketing, Tilburg University) is a PhD candidate in Marketing at Tilburg University.

His main interest lies on quantitative marketing models and his first project focuses on store price image (joint work with Els Gijsbrechts and Richard Paap). He is currently teaching Marketing Research at Tilburg University (together with Els Gijsbrechts) and supervising BSc theses in Marketing. He has participated in EMAC's Doctoral Colloquium in Greece, 2006.

Carlos Lourenço did his undergraduate studies in Economics at the Catholic University in Lisbon (96-01). Carlos Lourenço completed coursework towards a MSc in Data Analysis at ISCTE (Higher Institute for Business and Labor Sciences) in Lisbon, Portugal (02-03), where he was a Teaching Assistant of Statistics for undergraduate Sociology (03-04).

Carlos Lourenço also studied at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy (01).

Jared M. Hansen is a marketing doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He has been in the Ph.D. program for two years. His dissertation is on retail price promotions and retailer financial performance. He is currently drafting the dissertation proposal and has collected the data. His research interests include strategy (e.g., competition, competences, retail marketing, pricing), marketing and society (e.g., ethics, corporate social responsibility, consumer behavior), and methodology (e.g., quantitative modeling, survey design, teaching methods). His research is forthcoming at the Journal of Retailing, Organizational Dynamics, College Student Journal, and it has been presented at numerous conferences of the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science/American Collegiate Retaining Association, Marketing Managers Association, the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, and the International Association for Business and Society. Prior to the Ph.D., he received an MBA and BS from Brigham Young University and was a Corporate Buyer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Kelly Goldsmith is a third-year doctoral student in Behavioral Marketing at the Yale School of Management. She received a B.A. with honors in Sociology from Duke University. Her research interests focus on prediction / experience inconsistencies in consumer behavior, goals and motivation, as well as the impact of psychological distance on product perceptions. She has presented papers at several conferences including AMA (Winter), ACR and JDM. Outside of her own research, Kelly enjoys working for the Yale Center for Customer Insights. She was recently named a Whitebox Advisors Fellow by the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management.

Arne Schröder is third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He holds a diploma in Business Administration (majors Marketing and Statistics) from the University of Kiel, Germany. He started his Ph.D. thesis as a scholarship holder of the German Science Foundation at the University of Kiel before he moved to the University of Frankfurt in April 2006.

Arne's research is in the area of competition and coordination in the retail channel. Recently, he has developed a dynamic model of entry and vertical competition on the economic rationales for slotting allowances. Other work in progress is on efficient category pricing and promotion planning. Arne has published a book chapter on panel data analysis and will present one of his papers at the Marketing Science Conference 2007.

Matthew O'Hern is a 4th year doctoral student in marketing at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. Before starting the PhD program, Matt worked for three years as an International Project Manager for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Kundl, Austria. He holds a BA from Grinnell College and an MBA from Indiana University. His research interests include customer co-creation, marketing strategy and new product development. Matt's dissertation focuses on performance drivers in open source software development. He has presented his research on customer co-creation at the 2006 Haring Symposium and the 2007 AMA Winter Educators' Conference. Please feel free to contact Matt at msohern@wisc.edu.

Murat Usta is a fourth-year PhD student in the University of Alberta. He obtained a BS in Engineering and an MBA from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. His research focuses on explaining consumer decision making based on theories of self and motivation. In his dissertation, he investigates how consumers make control relinquishment decisions and why consumers have a strong tendency to retain the control of their decisions. One paper (co-authored with Häubl and Dellaert) examines the opposing effects of recommendations on objective and subjective decision outcomes. Additional research (co-authored with Williams, Schimel, and Häubl) examines why consumers choose familiar products and avoid the novel ones. Murat has presented at conferences such as JDM, ACR, BDRM, and SPSP. He also works as a research associate in the Institute for Online Consumer Studies at the University of Alberta.

Yun Kyung Oh is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in statistics and a Master's degree in management (specialized in marketing), both from Seoul National University. Her research empirically examines social influences on consumer choice and gift purchase behavior. Her research interests also include online word-of-mouth, price format choice at online auctions and Bayesian methods. She has presented her research work in Marketing Science conference.

Zachary Williams is third year marketing Ph.D. candidate at Mississippi State University. He received a BSBA from Central Michigan University and a MBA from The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Prior to joining the PhD program at MSU, Zac worked for a variety of companies, including J.D. Power and Associates, Accenture, and RouteOne. His primary research interests include interactions between marketing and logistics disciplines, reverse logistics activities, customer retention among logistical providers, security as a strategy in supply chain management, and turnover of service personnel, specifically truck drivers. He has several articles forthcoming, including one in the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. In addition, he has one book co-authored book and numerous conference proceedings.

Seema Pai is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (expected Spring 2008) at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Prior to joining the PhD Program, she completed her MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and worked for Procter & Gamble, Asia in the area of Brand Management. Her primary research interest is in the area of word of mouth and its impact on firm performance. Seema's dissertation investigates the impact of the content of word of mouth in the motion picture industry. She is also working on a research project investigating the impact of mass media on firm reputation.

Seema has presented her research at several conferences including the Marketing Science Conferences at Atlanta and Pittsburgh. She has a book chapter on Advertising Tracking forthcoming in the Handbook of Advertising (with S. Siddarth).

Kerstin Reimer is a second-year doctoral candidate at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. She holds a diploma in Business Administration with focus on quantitative economics research (majors marketing, econometrics and information systems) from the University of Kiel, Germany. She started her Ph.D. thesis in 2005 with a scholarship from an e-business company located in Hamburg (Germany) and continued her research in 2006 as a scholarship holder of the German Science Foundation at the University of Kiel.

Kerstin's primary research interest is in the area of analytical customer relationship management in e-commerce. She focuses on the analysis and prediction of customer purchasing behavior in non-contractual settings, especially at innovative online download services. Kerstin has published a book chapter on bootstrapping and one on hazard rate models and their application in marketing research.

Sam Hui is a third-year PhD student in Marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Hong Kong, and first came to the U.S. for his undergraduate studies at Stanford University. His undergraduate degree is in Mathematical and Computational Science, and his masters degree is in Statistics. He enjoyed playing badminton, watching soccer, and going to movies.

Jongkuk Lee is a marketing doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University (Korea), and a M.S. in Econometrics from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Prior to his doctoral program, he worked as a marketing manager for five years in telecommunication equipment companies. His research interest includes supply chain collaboration, social network analysis, new product innovation and marketing strategy of new products. Currently he is working on topics such as supply chain coordination for collaborative technology adoption and interfirm collaboration network for new product innovations. He presented his research at conferences such as 2006 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference and 2007 AMA Winter Educators Conference.

William Hedgcock is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. His work experience includes six years of market research for a variety of companies including Visa, Great Clips, Radisson Hotels, TGI Fridays and Regent Seven Seas Cruise Lines. His academic research interests are in the area of decision neuroscience. He uses response time analysis, functional MRI and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study cognitive functions while people make decisions. Research topics currently under investigation include neurological precursors to the attraction effect and diminished self-control. He has presented at several conferences including the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the Association for Consumer Research, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. His academic honors include presenting at the Haring Symposium and research grants from the University of Minnesota Center for Magnetic Resonance Research and the National Science Foundation.

Oliver J. Rutz is a fourth year doctoral candidate at UCLA Anderson. His research focuses on internet advertising and search engine marketing, especially paid search. Before starting his doctoral program he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an economics degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany) and a mathematics degree from the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany). Oliver is graduating in summer 2007 and has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Yale School of Management.

Jennifer "Kat" Bechkoff is a third year marketing doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a B.S. in risk management, an M.B.A. with emphasis in international business, and a California single subject teaching credential in business education. Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati, Kat was a high school business, computer, and algebra teacher in California. As a graduate instructor, she's taught information technology in marketing for the last 3 years.

Her research interest is consumer psychology with respect to judgment, decision-making, and unconscious processes. Currently, she is conducting research on both the truth-effect and reciprocity. Kat has served as an ad hoc reviewer for SCP as well as AMA and she is the current president of U.C.'s Graduate Student Business Association. Kat works with Dr. Frank Kardes and Dr. Robert Palmatier, and is scheduled to complete her PhD in 2008.

Rui Wang is a fourth-year PhD student at Penn State University. She holds a Master degree in International Economics from Fudan University and a Bachelor degree in International Business from Nanjing University. Her research domain includes marketing strategy, marketing leadership, and competitive strategy. She is interested in studying phenomenon in these domains through state-of-the-art theories and methods such as social network theory and Bayesian method. Her advisor is Professor Rajdeep Grewal. She has presented her work in Marketing Science Conference and Winter AMA Educator Conference. Her dissertation about the value of marketing leadership has won Smeal doctoral dissertation award and ISBM doctoral support award.

Hillbun (Dixon) Ho is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at The University of Arizona. He received his Bachelor's degree (business administration) and Master's degree (marketing) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the doctoral program at U of A, he worked as a research assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include business-to-business marketing, channel relationships, retailer strategies, and consumer search behavior. His dissertation topic is in the area of knowledge sharing between channel members in supply-chain networks. Hillbun Ho has presented his research at AMA Summer Educators' Conference (2002) and ACR Conference (2005, 2006). His works are under review in Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is a finalist in the 2006 ISBM Business Marketing Doctoral Support Award Competition.

Andrew Gallan (BA Colgate University, MBA University of Portland) joined ASU from the pharmaceutical industry, where he had almost ten years of experience in sales management and marketing. His research interests include the interorganizational coordination of complex services, including health care, service productivity and quality. Andrew has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Center for Services Leadership Grant and the Gene Gallup Fellowship. He has two journal articles already in publication, and is co-author of a paper under final review at Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Andrew will be spending the spring of 2007 at University of Maastricht in the Netherlands as a visiting doctoral scholar. Andrew works with Dr. Stephen W. Brown, Dr. Mary Jo Bitner, and Dr. Cheryl Burke Jarvis and is scheduled to complete his PhD in 2008.

Qiaowei Shen is a PhD candidate in Marketing at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics from Peking University, China. Her research interests focus on empirical modeling of competitive strategies and consumer choice. She has presented her research at Marketing Science conference.

Yacheng Sun entered the doctoral program at Marketing Department of Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in August 2004. Prior to PhD study in Marketing he has earned an MA in Economics at Indiana University (with concentration in Industrial Organization and Econometrics) and a BA in Economics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China).

He has passed proposal of his dissertation (committee member Shibo Li, Baohong Sun and Rockney Walters) and expect to graduate in summer, 2008. Along the dissertation work he has also been working with Professor Scott A. Neslin and Praveen K. Kopalle on two other projects investigating (1) effectiveness of customer loyalty program and (2) dynamic retailer competition. Yacheng's general research interests lie in the dynamic structural modeling of consumer behavior and firm competition. Most recently his work is focused on the online DVD rental industry.

Garth Harris is a Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing at Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Canada. He holds a B.B.A. and M.B.A from Simon Fraser University. His research interests focus on the dynamics of communities and groups within the marketplace, over-consumption and marketing history. Specifically, his research looks into groups and belonging from an individual internal self-perspective and what happens when an individual questions the status of their membership in groups. He has published in the Journal of Macromarketing and has presented at several conferences including the Association for Consumer Research, and Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM). Before academia Garth was an avid swimmer and represented Canada in the 1996 Paralympics. He is originally from Vancouver and is an ardent hockey fan.

Jodie Ferguson is a third year Marketing doctoral student at Georgia State University. Prior to entering the doctoral program, she completed a BS in Marketing at the Ohio State University, and MBA at Georgia State University. Jodie has several years work experience with marketing firms representing clients including, Gatorade, P&G, Lean Cuisine, and Dunkin Donuts. Jodie's research interests include behavioral pricing and dissatisfaction. Jodie's husband, Andrew, is a senior production manager for an Atlanta marketing firm. The couple has a little boy named George.

Kyuseop Kwak is a PhD candidate in Marketing at University of Iowa. He received his Bachelors and MBA degree from Korea University. He also holds MS degree in Marketing Research from A.C.Nielsen Center for the Marketing Research in University of Wisconsin-Madison. While he was in Madison, Wisconsin, he interned for Analytics Group at A.C.Nielsen. This internship experience gave him an opportunity to work with choice models using scanner panel data, which became a main part of his current research. His research interests include choice modeling in area of multiple item choice, product bundling and price competition. He also has work experience as research analyst at Hyundai Research Institute in Korea before he came to U.S.

Francesca Sotgiu is a third-year doctoral candidate at RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She obtained her degree in Business Administration at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), with a specialization in marketing management. Francesca's main research interests focus on price promotions, retailing and market response models. Her dissertation looks at different aspects of price promotions from a manufacturer perspective. In a first paper, she looks at the consequences of price wars on the effectiveness of price promotions. In a second paper, she investigates the drivers of retailers' forward buying. She is also involved in a third project, together with Katrijn Gielens, Marnik Dekimpe and Berend Wierenga, on the sales impact of different price promotion activities. Her work has been presented at several conferences including Marketing Science and the EMAC-ANZMAC symposium. Her expected graduation will be in the fall of 2008.

Monica Wadhwa is a third-year doctoral student in Behavioral Marketing at Stanford University. She holds a B.A. in Sociology (Honors) from the University of Delhi and a M.A. in Human Resources Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Her research interests focus on the appetitive motivational system and reward-seeking behaviors, non-conscious mental processes in consumer decision making, and emotion regulation. She has presented papers at several conferences including ACR and SCP. She currently has a paper under second review at the Journal of Marketing Research.

Clinton Amos is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at the University of North Texas. He holds a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Northeastern State University and an MBA in international business from Dallas Baptist University. He spent two years working in retail management and two years directing marketing activities for a firm in the industrial construction industry. His research broadly focuses on marketing communication and consumer response. Areas of specific interest include visceral effects, source effects, public policy and marketing, message strategies, and irritation in advertising. His research has been conditionally accepted in the International Journal of Advertising and he has manuscripts under review at the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. In addition, he has presented papers and published proceedings at several conferences including the 2006 and 2007 American Marketing Association Winter Educators' Conference, 2006 Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference, and will present in the upcoming 2007 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference. Based upon his work on visceral effects, Clinton recently has been granted a fellowship to participate in Dartmouth's 2007 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice at Dartmouth College.

Eva Ascarza is a third-year Ph.D. student at London Business School. Broadly, her research interests include customer base analysis and quantitative models in Marketing. As part of her dissertation, she is currently working (jointly with Bruce Hardie, her advisor) on modeling customer behavior under membership schemes and different types of contractual relationships. She is also working with Naufel Vilcassim and Marco Bertini on understanding customer choice under multi-tariff pricing plans.

Before joining the Marketing department at London Business School, Eva studied a M.S. in Economics and Finance at Universidad de Navarra, and a B.S. in Mathematics, at Universidad de Zaragoza, both located in Spain.

Ryan Luchs is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to attending graduate school, Ryan worked as the quality assurance manager for a small specialty chemical manufacturer. Ryan's chair is Jeff Inman and they work together studying issues related to retailing. In the first two essays of Ryan's dissertation he estimates discrete choice models to explore how consumers choose among competing retail formats and in the third essay he examines antitrust issues in retailing. Additionally, Ryan enjoys writing about methodological issues that marketing academics face. Ryan is married to Mandy, who is the director of a public library, and they have two children, Madeline 2 and a half and Benjamin 9 months. Ryan can be contacted at rjluchs@katz.pitt.edu.

Thomas Dotzel is a third year Ph.D. student at the Texas A&M University (expected graduation: May 2009). His area of research is services marketing with a special focus on the strategic aspects related to service innovations and hybrid innovations (good and service combined). His research has been published in the MIT Sloan Management Review and presented at various conferences. Thomas is a recipient of the 2006 AMA SERVSIG Liam Glynn Award. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington, a Master of Science in Business from the ESC Pau in France and a Diplom Betriebswirt from the University of Applied Sciences and Research in Munich, Germany. Prior to joining the Mays doctoral program, Thomas worked for five years in the hospitality industry in diverse countries and in the marketing division of the BMW Group in Munich.

Marco Wolf is a third year Ph.D student at New Mexico State University. Born and raised in Germany he came to the United States in 1996 with the German Air Force. His work as a purchasing agent for the German Military in the US laid the groundwork for a career in business. His tour of duty with the military ended in July 2000 upon which he enrolled with NMSU. He received his Bachelors in International Business in 2003 and his MBA in 2004. Expected graduation with a Ph.D in marketing is fall 2008. When time allows he likes to enjoy the outdoors by going mountain biking, snowboarding, and windsurfing.

Anirban Mukherjee is a third year doctoral student in marketing, at Cornell University, NY, USA. He is a graduate of Doon School, India and holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. He is interested in modeling sequential content distribution channels in the entertainment industry, and cross auction effects in online auction settings.

Adam Craig is finishing his second year as a doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina. He holds a B.A. (honors) in Psychology and a B.A (honors) in Strategic Communication from the University of Kentucky. His research interest in consumer psychology deal primarily with automatic processes. Currently, Adam is conducting research on the automatic perception and instigation of competitive behavior as well as projects dealing with the neurological components that facilitate the detection of deceptive advertising. Adam works with Dr. Stacy Wood and plans to complete his PhD in 2010. More information about Adam can be found at: http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moore/mktg/MKTG-PhD/student.profiles.MKTG/A.Craig.htm

Weimin Dong is a doctoral student of marketing at Boston University School of Management. He passed his dissertation proposal defense and now he is an A.B.D.

He got his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1999, and M.A in Marketing from Beijing University, China in 2002. In 2003 he joined the marketing doctoral program in Boston University. His research interest involves on customer equity and brand equity, advertising and consumer attitude, behavioral decision theory, and research methodology. Now I work with Professor Scott D. Swain and Professor Paul D. Berger at Boston University on the topic of customer relationship management and customer lifetime value. His dissertation is about customer equity maximization through optimal marketing resources allocation.

He likes reading and music, and hates losing control of time. Badminton is his favorite sport.

Sameer Mathur is a doctoral candidate in Marketing at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Kannan Srinivasan and Ajay Kalra.

He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelors in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He worked at the National Center of Supercomputing Applications as a programmer, prior to seeking an academic career.

Thanh Tran is a PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida. He graduated from Warsaw Polytechnics (Politechnika Warszawska, Poland) with an engineer diploma and a master degree in Biotechnology in 1997 and from the University of Warsaw (Poland) with a master degree in Management and Marketing. He is interested in a few topics such as new product introduction and cannibalization, product diffusion and adoption, price discrimination, information transparency and asymmetry, etc. His work in product diffusion has been presented at the Marketing Science conference in Pittsburg (2006). Before joining the PhD program in 2004, he has been teaching at the Posts and Telecom Institute of Technology in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since 1998.

Hwan Chung is a PhD candidate at the Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Yonsei University, Seoul and his master's in statistics from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has worked for the Korea Development Bank from 1997 to 1999. He has a wife and an eight-year-old daughter. His research interests include various topics of quantitative modeling such as distribution channels, product line design, and pricing. His dissertation is about a retailer's optimal strategies for managing a store brand. The dissertation proposal has been selected as the winner of the 2005 Levy and Weitz Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition. He has presented his research at 2005&2006 Marketing Science Conference and 2006 AMA Winter Educators Conference.

Ebrahim Mazaheri is a marketing doctoral student at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University). He holds a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic and a General Mangement Certificate and an MSc in Marketing from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His main area of research is the role of customers' culture in evaluating service failure and recovery.

Canan Corus is a third year Ph.D. student at the Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech (expected graduation: May 2008).

Her main area of research is health marketing with a focus on the effect of emotions on health behaviors. She has presented her research at 2006 ACR Conference in Orlando and 2006 MPPC Conference in Long Beach. She has also received Association for Consumer Research Funding for her work in collaboration with David Brinberg on risk behaviors and parenting.

Canan is currently working on papers with Julie Ozanne on vulnerable populations and with Yael Zemack-Rugar on individual differences regarding self-control. Her work is currently under review at Health Psychology.

Canan holds an MBA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Prior to joining the doctoral program, Canan worked for three years in the marketing division of the KOC Group in Turkey.

Her personal interests include traveling, scuba diving and independent films. Please feel free to contact her at ccorus@vt.edu!

Jon Chin is a third-year marketing doctoral student at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a M.App.Com. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interest includes channels of distribution, inter-organisational relationships and performance, strategic orientation, and research methodologies. Papers have been presented at American Marketing Association (AMA), Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), Academy of Marketing Conference (AMS), Academy of Marketing Australia and New Zealand Marketing Conference (ANZMAC). In addition, he reviewed papers for ANZMAC and AMS. 2008 is the anticipated year of Ph.D completion. He has received teaching awards and has taught both undergraduate and graduate classes. He was a visiting scholar at the Singapore Management University in 2006 - collection of empirical data. An individual willing to seize new challenges, and apply classic and unconventional techniques that transition ideas to a practical reality.

Elyria Kemp is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Elyria holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Business from Bradley University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans. Elyria worked for several years in the arts and entertainment industry, including the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Madame Walker Theatre Center and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Elyria's research interests include consumer research issues related to death care consumption and nutrition labeling as well as emotion regulation. Elyria has presented her research at the American Marketing Association, Marketing and Public Policy, the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Association for Consumer Research Conferences. Currently, Elyria has two publications in the Journal of Consumer Affairs. Elyria's dissertation is on emotion regulation consumption and specifically examines how emotions and self-regulation affect consumption behavior.

Guang-Xin Xie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Marketing at the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Prior to joining the doctoral program in 2004, he received M.A. in communication from Washington State University and B.A. from West China School of Medicine at the Sichuan University.

Guang-Xin's research interests include persuasion, consumer values, and sports marketing. His current research projects focus on the role of consumer persuasion intelligence in coping with marketplace persuasion and deception. He is a recent recipient of the Merle King Smith Scholarship and Warsaw Sports Marketing Center Doctoral Research Fellowship.

Sun Li is a 4th year PhD candidate in Department of Marketing at the National University of Singapore. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Renmin University of China. Before joining the PhD program she worked in China with a MNC in retailing industry for four years doing merchandising and retailing management. Her research interests are theoretical and empirical modelling in marketing strategies, network effects and firm behavior in two-sided markets.

Javier Monllor is a third year as a doctoral candidate of Marketing/Entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include social entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial marketing, innovation and creativity. He has presented at various research conferences including the Babson Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Conference, the Ethics and Entrepreneurship Research Conference and the Allied Sciences Research Conference and has published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (in press) on the opportunity recognition process of social entrepreneurs. Javier also is a reviewer and editor for the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research Conference books. He is currently completing his dissertation proposal on factors that drive opportunity recognition toward a causation or effectuation process.

Javier completed his undergraduate studies with honors in Mechanical Engineering and started his MBA at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Remi Trudel, prior to joining the PhD program at Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, among other things, was a professional athlete for six years and a firefighter. His research focuses on consumer judgment and decision making, with an emphasis on adaptive processing and self-control. He is particularly interested in how processing differs in self-control failures.

Frederick Hong-kit Yim is a fourth-year Doctoral candidate at Drexel University. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration, and a Master of Philosophy degree in Marketing, both from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the areas of customer relationship management (CRM), customer loyalty, and sales management. His research has been published in the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, and other journals.

Altaf Merchant is a second year doctoral student in Marketing at the Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. He holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Mumbai, India. Prior to pursuing his PHD he spent eight years working in brand management and innovations management with various consumer product companies like Glaxo Smithkline Consumer Healthcare and Reckitt Benckiser. His research interest include consumer behavior and not for profit marketing. His paper has been accepted for publication by the International Journal for Non Profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing and he has a manuscript under third review at the Journal of Advertising He will also be presenting a paper at the upcoming 2007 American Marketing Association Summer Educator's Conference.

Preeti Krishnan is a third year Ph.D. candidate from the I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada (expected to graduate in 2008). She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (M.B.A.) in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, and a B.Com. from the Bangalore University, India. She joined the doctoral program with over 3 years of work experience in brand consulting, marketing research, operations management, and statutory audits. She is presently serving on the Asper School Department of Marketing's Recruiting Committee.

Her research interests are in the realm of consumer-brand relationships and integrate variables from consumer behavior, branding strategy, emotions, and culture. Her thesis examines the role of powerlessness (i.e., felt helplessness) in consumers' sense of alienation by brands.

Her paper with Drs. Sridhar Samu and Reg Litz on the role of retailers in brand communities - awarded the Honorable Mention at Canada's prestigious ASAC 2006 Conference - is ready for submission to the Industrial Marketing Management. She has other papers, in the pipeline at various stages of completion, such as examining the role of co-consumer alienation by niche brands, company- versus customer-driven brand communities, cross-gender brand extensions, the role of anticipated emotions on brand choice, etc.

MinChung Kim is a doctoral candidate in Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds an MA (2003) in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan and a BBA (2001) in Business Administration from the SungKyunKwan University in Korea. His teaching experience includes two sections of an introductory statistics course to undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. The main focus of his research is econometric modeling of marketing phenomena. His current research focuses on the impact of marketing activities on financial metrics. In particular, his paper published in Journal of Marketing (2007) has shown that advertising spending reduces the systemic risk of the firm, beta, which represents a financial risk to a firm. In another line of research, he has developed a methodology to allocate media budget to advertising outlets using a Bayesian decision theory. This research presents a new framework for the optimal media budget allocation, resulting in savings in a company's advertising budget. He received the David Bruton Jr. fellowship (2006) and the preemptive fellowship (2003) at the University of Texas at Austin (2003), as well as the SungKyun full scholarship (1999).

Rachelle Dupuis is a third year Ph.D. candidate from the Fogelman College of Business and Economics Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at the University of Memphis. She holds a B.A. in political science and an MBA in International Business from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Prior to undertaking doctoral studies, Rachelle spent six years working for Xerox where she developed a keen interest in sales research. Since joining the Ph.D. program, she has worked primarily in the area of services marketing, especially customer role conflict and customer satisfaction in a services setting, though her research interests range from marketing strategy to marketing theory. She has co-authored and presented at several conferences including AMA (Summer 2006) and SMA (2005 & 2006). Returning to her interest in personal selling and sales management, Rachelle is currently developing her dissertation, which explores customer behaviors that facilitate the personal selling process and positively impact sales performance. She expects to graduate Spring 2008.

Astrid Keel is a fourth year marketing PhD student at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She received her BA in Economics and Music from Emory College. Her research interests include strategic promotion, merchandising, and marketing-mix models. One of her papers investigates the overlap between academic theory, practice and managerial beliefs in the realm of advertising strategy. Another paper investigates how shelf-placement impacts sales in a real-world setting, and draws from literature in consumer behavior and sales-response models.

Trent Wachner is a Ph.D. student at Washington State University. His research focuses on marketing strategy, sales force effectiveness and the governance of boundary-spanning interfirm relationships. Prior to academia, Trent worked for several Fortune 500 companies in industrial sales, marketing and international sales training.

Milena S. Nikolova is a Doctoral candidate at The George Washington University (GW) School of Business focusing on Marketing in Tourism. With her research Ms. Nikolova is exploring approaches to experience-based marketing and management of tourism destinations. She is particularly interested in the linkages between the experiential destination brand promise and the actual experience of tourists.

Ms. Nikolova is also a Research Specialist at the GW International Institute of Tourism Studies where she coordinates the delivery of professional training programs in the US and abroad, and works on research projects initiated by the Institute. She is also a supporting instructor in several graduate courses offered by the GW Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

Before coming to the US to join the GW School of Business, Ms. Nikolova has worked for seven years with international development programs in Bulgaria where she is originally from. She has been engaged in the implementation of nationwide public education campaigns supporting social and economic reforms in the country. She has also worked with prominent international consultants delivering communication training programs for high-level government officials and their public relations offices.

Ms. Nikolova holds a Masters degree in social and organizational psychology from Sofia University.

Ryan Hamilton is a fourth year doctoral candidate at Northwestern University. He is especially interested in consumer choice. In two independent streams of research, he has examined how retailer price image and visual processing influence consumer decision making. He has presented his research at various conferences and symposia, including ACR, SCP, JDM, SPSP, the Haring Symposium and the Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference. He has a forthcoming article in the Journal of Consumer Research and a forthcoming chapter in The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior. When not hunched in front of his computer, Ryan enjoys (embarrassingly) science fiction books, movies and television, occasional forays into stand-up comedy, and building intricate Lego towers with his two children (ages two and four). Ryan earned a BS in Applied Physics from Brigham Young University.

Rachel Shacham is a third year Ph.D. student at NYU's Stern School of Business. She joined the program after graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and from NYU with an M.A. in Economics. Also, she worked for several years as a financial analyst for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. Rachel's interests include the development of empirical models for dynamic choice processes involving new products. She has presented her work at the Marketing Science and Marketing in Israel conferences.

Denish Shah is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut. He has a MBA degree (Dean's List) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a B. Tech. with Honors from Mumbai University, India. He has seven years of professional experience working for multinational corporations in India and USA in sales, operations, marketing, and business intelligence.

Denish's research interests include Customer Lifetime Value, Customer Loyalty, and Marketing-Mix Models. He has published his work in Journal of Retailing, Journal of Service Research and Marketing Research. His paper 'Building and Sustaining Profitable Customer Loyalty for the 21st Century' co-authored with his advisor, Dr. V Kumar, has been amongst the top 5 downloaded articles of Journal of Retailing since 2005. Denish has also presented papers at several conferences including the 2006 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference and 2005 AMA Winter Educators Conference. His dissertation topic is in the area of Marketing-Mix models.

Melissa Markley is a 4th year doctoral student in marketing at the University of Alabama. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from The George Washington University and an MBA from Bradley University. Prior to entering the doctoral program Melissa worked for 3 years as a market research consultant for The Martec Group in Chicago and was an addiction recovery counselor at the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery at Proctor Hospital. As an MBA student she taught introduction to business computer systems for 2 years, while as a doctoral student has taught marketing principles, personal selling and marketing research. She has received multiple awards for teaching excellence.

Melisa's research interests revolve around the contributions consumers make to service and retail experiences including customer participation and risk acceptance. She has presented at multiple conferences including the Association for Consumer Research and the Southern Marketing Association. Her dissertation focuses on the amount of risk customer's are willing to accept in order to enhance their self-esteem and aesthetic self. Melissa works with Dr. Sharon Beatty and is scheduled to complete her PhD in the fall of 2007. Please feel free to contact Melissa at mmarkley@cba.ua.edu.

Selima Ben Mrad is from Tunisia, North Africa. She did her undergraduate in Tunisia with a major in Marketing. Then, she continued her master degree in international business in Detroit. She is now a third year Ph D student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton Florida. Her main interest lies in country of origin literature and consumer animosity. She became lately interested as well in green marketing, relationship marketing. Her dissertation topic is about consumer animosity towards American products in the Middle-East. Her dissertation chair is Dr Tammy Mangleburg and Dr Mike Mullen. She has just defended her proposal and is at the stage of gathering the data.

Her hobbies are belly dancing, and swimming. Her personal interests include enjoying time with her husband, her daughter Noor and soon a new baby.

Ashutosh Patil is a second-year doctoral student at Georgia Tech. He has bachelors from the College of Engineering, Pune, in India. He also holds an MBA from UC Berkeley. His prior work experience include leading software development efforts of a small team of engineers at Tata's MIS division, and a five-year software product management stint at Oracle Corporation.

His research interests are consumer information processing and marketing strategy. Specifically, he researches consumer acceptance of prices. Given his extensive background in product management at fortune-500 firms and at technology startups, he has been pursuing an interesting research project on business environment management activities undertaken by firms. His research on method biases has been published in Management Science. His newest research interest is watching the rapid cognitive and physical development of his 11-month old daughter.

Kristin Scott is a fourth year marketing doctoral student at the William S. Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Oklahoma and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and is on the Chandler's List. Since entering the doctoral program she has taught Promotional Strategy, Introduction to Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Social Issues in Marketing. Her research interests include product design, anti-consumption issues, social marketing, and relationship development in the workplace.

Published papers include the role of personality in adventure travel (Journal of Consumer Behaviour). Working papers include the role of personality in gambling and in the centrality of visual product design and utilizing aesthetics as a strategic tool. In public policy, the areas of social smoking in college students and anti-smoking messages in youth are currently being investigated with qualitative research methods. Another area of interest includes obesity in youth and campaigns directed towards parents to increase physical activity in children. Outside of the program, she enjoys mountain biking, triathlons, photography, and artistic endeavors.

Matthew Selove is a third year PhD candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include product optimization and incorporating game theory into product design decisions. He has an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Jung Seek Kim is a third year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas as Dallas. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an MBA from Soongsil University, Korea. His research generally aims to develop econometric and psychometric models and procedures tailored to the needs of marketing scholars and practitioners. He currently works on an automobile choice model aimed at revealing the impact of consumer priors on purchase inertia, nonparametric Bayesian econometric methods for hierarchical models, Bayesian Bootstrapping procedure extended to panel data and multiple-equations systems and Bayesian estimation of marketing models with reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method.