Sameer Mathur

 

Sameer Mathur      [Download Curriculum Vitae in PDF]

Tepper School of Business                                                                                                                    Phone: +1 (412) 657 7638 
Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                                                    Email: smathur@cmu.edu
Pittsburgh, PA 15213                                                                                                                            Web: http://www.smathur.com 

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University , expected in 2009
  • Master of Science, Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University , 2006  
  • Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee , India , 1999

Awards / Fellowships

  • AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2007
  • Student Fellow, Theory Rich Marketing Modeling Workshop, Duke University , 2007
  • William Larimer Mellon Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003-2006
  • University Merit Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, 1995-1999

Research Interests

  • Competitive Marketing Strategy, Analytical Modeling, Game Theory
  • Applications: Emerging Markets, Customer Information Management

Dissertation

Papers Under Review

Working Papers

  • Billeter, Darron, Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur "How Purchase Behavior Differs for Vice and Virtue Products", manuscript under preparation for submission to Journal of Marketing Research 
  • Mathur, Sameer and J. Jeffrey Inman "How Do Purchase Behavior and Seller Strategy Differ During the Holidays?", manuscript under preparation for submission to Management Science

Conference Presentations

  • Kalra, Ajay and Sameer Mathur. 2008. "When Should Firms Reveal Their Bestsellers?", Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, University of California at Berkeley
  • Mathur, Sameer, Kannan Srinivasan and Baohong Sun. 2007. "When Should Firms Share Information About Expensive Customers?" Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, University of California at Berkeley
  • Billeter, Darron, Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur. 2007. "How Purchase Behavior Differs for Vice and Virtue Products" INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore, June.

Teaching Experience

  • Instructor, International Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007 (Instructor Rating: 3.5/5, Course Rating: 3.5/5)
  • Instructor, Introduction to Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007 (Instructor Rating: 3.8/5, Course Rating: 3.5/5)
  • Teaching Assistant, Database Management Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
  • Teaching Assistant, Data Structures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
  • Teaching Assistant, Numerical Methods, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

Industry Experience

  • Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign IL, 2002-2003.
  • Intern, Management Science Associates, Pittsburgh PA, Summer 2001.
  • Intern, Pudumjee Industries, Pune, India. Summer 1998.

References

Kannan Srinivasan 
H.J. Heinz II Professor of Management, 
Marketing and Information Systems 
Tepper School of Business 
Carnegie Mellon University 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
Phone: +1 412 260 2411 
Email: kannans@andrew.cmu.edu

Preyas Desai 
Professor of Marketing 
The Fuqua School of Business 
Duke University 
1 Towerview Drive  
Durham, NC 27708 
Phone: +1 919 660 2893 
Email: desai@duke.edu

Ajay Kalra 
Professor of Management 
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management 
Rice University 
240 McNair Hall
Houston, TX  77005
Phone: +1 713 348 3768 
Email: ak17@rice.edu

Baohong Sun 
Associate Professor of Marketing 
Tepper School of Business 
Carnegie Mellon University 
5000 Forbes Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
Phon +1 412 268 6903 
Email: bsun@andrew.cmu.edu