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Vita updated on 04/21/2012
Education
Ph.D., Management Science (Marketing), The University of Texas at Dallas Expected completion: 2012
B.A. Marketing, Summa cum laude, Tecnológico de Monterrey 2007
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Research interests
Social interaction, brand alliances, consumer choice, matching.
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Working papers
Determinants of Matches in the Job Market for Assistant Professors of Marketing(with Yu Wang and Ernan Haruvy)
The Many Facets of Brand Equity: Evidence from Relational Markets
(with Ernan Haruvy and Yu Wang)
Matching with the Stars: Assessing Brand Personality Fit in Celebrity Endorsements
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Work in progress
Pricing with Partners (with Yu Wang and Brian Ratchford)
How Preference and Satiation Shape Cross-Selling and Competition(with Marina Girju and B.P.S. Murthi)
One Award Too Many? The Negative Consequences of Salesperson Awards on Consumer Behavior
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Research presentations
The Job Market for Assistant Professors in Marketing2011
     presented at The University of Houston Doctoral Symposium
Is Your School Cool? Revealed University Preferences with Endogenous Matching2009
     presented at The University of Texas at Dallas
Human Brands and Mutual Choices
     presented at Penn State University
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Teaching and assistantship
See Teaching section.
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Research awards, fellowships and grants
Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium 2012, student fellow2012
MSI Ideas Challenge, winner ($10,000 grant)2012
     Only doctoral student awarded with this MSI grant.
2011 MSI Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition, honorable mention2012
Quantitative Marketing and Economics conference, student fellow2011
AMA-Sheth Consortium 2011, student fellow2011
The University of Houston Doctoral Consortium 2011, student fellow2011
Yale Maketing-Industrial Organization (MIO) Conference, student fellow2011
Columbia-Duke-UCLA Workshop on Quantitative Marketing and Structural Econometrics, student fellow2010
UTD full Ph.D. scholarship2007
The University of Texas at Dallas Summer Research Program, Marketing2006
GRUMA/COCYTENL research grants for UTD Summer Research Program ($3,000)2006
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Selected coursework
Marketing
Consumer Choice seminar Brian Ratchford
Consumer Search seminar Brian Ratchford
Market Design seminar Ernan Haruvy
Marketing Engineering Brian Ratchford
Pricing seminar Ashutosh Prasad
Statistics & Operations Research
Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes Shun-Chen Niu
Approaches to Statistical Inference John Wiorkowski
Optimal Control TheorySuresh Sethi
Bayesian Statistics seminar Andrei Strijnev
Economics and econometrics
Introduction to Econometrics Alejandro Zentner
Econometrics Yexiao Xu
Econometrics II
Donggyu Sul
Data Analysis with SAS and GAUSS B.P.S. Murthi
Microeconomics Harold Zhang
Game Theory Ram Rao
Academia
Doctoral Writing and Teaching seminar McClain Watson
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Other honors
Summa cum laude distinction, Marketing major, Tec de Monterrey 2007
Certificate in Scientific Research, Tec de Monterrey 2007
DANONE TRUST national business analysis contest, Participant 2007
CITIGROUP International Business Case Competition 2006 (HKUST), Participant 2006
The Marshall International Business Case Competition 2005 (USC), Participant 2005
Tecnológico de Monterrey XXI Public Speaking competition, 2nd. place 2004
HEB scholarship for outstanding students, Tec de Monterrey 2003
Tec de Monterrey scholarship 2003
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Professional experience
GAMAC S.A. de C.V. - Assistant for CFO 2007
Kamikaze Arte Promocional (Startup promotional products Marketing firm) - CMO 2006
Venio Technologies - Assistant for CEO 2005
Panorama (Tec de Monterrey newspaper) - Proofreader, editor and reporter 2004
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References
Brian Ratchford (committee chair) btr051000@utdallas.edu
Ernan Haruvy  eharuvy@utdallas.edu
Yu Wang yuwang@utdallas.edu
Ashutosh Prasad aprasad@utdallas.edu
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Telephone: (972) 883 4418