Assistant Professor (Marketing), Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, 1001 Sherbrooke St. (W), Montreal QC H3A 1G5                                        

Office Phone: (514) 398-5663 , Cell Phone: (514) 501-3214, URL: http://www.smathur.com, E-mail: sameer.mathur@mcgill.ca

EDUCATION      

• Doctor of Philosophy, Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 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

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor (Marketing), McGill University, Montreal QC, 2009 - present.
•  Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign IL, 2002-2003.
• Management Science Associates, Pittsburgh PA, Summer 2001.
• Pudumjee Industries, Pune, India, Summer 1998.

TEACHING

Teaching Interests      

• International Marketing; Marketing in Emerging Markets; Marketing Management

Teaching Experience

• Instructor, Marketing Management, McGill University, 2009, 2010
• Instructor, International Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
• Instructor, Introduction to Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
• Teaching Assistant, Database Management Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
• Teaching Assistant, Data Structures, Numerical Methods University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

RESEARCH

Research Interests      

• Marketing in Emerging Markets (particularly India and China);
• Competitive Marketing Strategies; Game Theory

Working Papers

• Preyas Desai, Sameer Mathur and Kannan Srinivasan “Quantity Discounts in Emerging Markets”
• Sameer Mathur and Kinshuk Jerath “Product Line Design in Emerging Markets”
• Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur “When Should Retailers Reveal Bestsellers?”
• Darron Billeter, Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur “How Does Purchase Behavior of Vice Products Differ From Virtue Products”

Conference Presentations

• Sameer Mathur and Maxim Sinitsyn. 2010.  “Price Promotions in Emerging Markets” Presenter: Maxim Sinitsyn McGill University, Department of Economics
• Sameer Mathur. 2009. “Package Sizing and Pricing in Emerging Markets” McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
• Darron Billeter, Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur. 2009. "How Purchase Behavior Differs For Vice and Virtue Products" Presenter: Darron Billeter Society for Consumer Psychology Conference, San Diego.
• Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur. 2008. “When Should Firms Reveal Their Bestsellers?”, Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, UC Berkeley
• Sameer Mathur, Kannan Srinivasan and Baohong Sun. 2007. “When Should Firms Share Information About Expensive Customers?” Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, UC Berkeley
• Darron Billeter, Ajay Kalra and Sameer Mathur. 2007. "Information Processing of Vice and Virtue Attributes" Presenter: Ajay Kalra INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore.

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 Grants

• Canadian Purchasing Research Foundation (CPRF) Research Grant – Joint with Saibal Ray (Total Amount: $6,250, Duration: 2010 – 2011)
• Team Grant from Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC) – Coapplicant with Laurette Dube et al  (Total Amount: $482,240, Duration: 2009 – 2013)
• McGill University Faculty Start-Up Grant (Total Amount: $60,000, Duration: 2009 – 2012)

Professional Affiliations

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences  (INFORMS); American Marketing Association

SERVICE

• http://www.eBooksSave.com, Founder of website dedicated to popularizing electronic textbooks among college students, 2010 –

• Raised Awareness about Electronic Textbooks (12000+ visits to website)
• Reduced Paper Consumption, Saved Students Money (~22,000 sheets of paper saved, ~$2100 saved)

• Course-Coordinator, MGCR 352 Marketing Management, 2009 – 2010
• Financial Services Committee, Marketing Area Representative, 2009
• Brain to Society Innovation Laboratory, Expert Panel Member, 2009

MEDIA MENTIONS

• Montreal Post-Gazette, “SinoPlus Bridges Language Gap with China”, September 30, 2010
• Edmonton Journal, “SinoPlus Bridges Language Gap with China”, September 30, 2010
• BrandAndMarket.com, “When Bigger isn’t Better, maybe Smaller is the Best”, Chris Brown, November 30, 2010

Manuscripts in Preparation for Submission

Sameer Mathur and Maxim Sinitsyn “Price Promotions in Emerging Markets”

Sameer Mathur and Saibal Ray “Channel Pricing Strategies in Emerging Economies”

Sameer Mathur and Chun Martin Qiu “Package Size as a Signal of Quality”

Mehmet Gumus and Sameer Mathur “The Impact of Substitution and Inter-temporal Demand on Coordinated Pricing-Inventory Strategies”