Simha Mummalaneni
Mason School of Business, William & Mary
I am an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Mason School of Business at William & Mary. My research is broadly in the areas of marketing analytics and quantitative marketing, and some of my specific research interests include platforms, advertising, digital marketing, and retailing. Much of my research focuses on contexts where firms' marketing activities intersect with public policy and societal issues.
Research
Publications
Social media companies can improve overall platform outcomes by identifying users who respond very positively to receiving engagement from others, and then providing them with targeted interventions.
Providing preferential treatment to small, women-owned, and minority-owned vendors can reduce purchasing costs for buyers in B2B markets.
Political candidates can increase their campaign donations by carefully crafting their emails to emphasize unique textual characteristics that resonate with their potential donors.
Statewide bans on menthol cigarettes are relatively ineffective because of widespread cross-border shopping for cigarettes.
TV product placement for cigarette brands increases sales for the brand portrayed on screen, its direct competitors, and the cigarette category as a whole.
Working Papers
Consumers who shop at cashierless "just walk out" grocery stores change how often they shop, when they shop, and what they buy, but they do not increase their overall spending.
Online marketplace platforms can reduce sales tax responsiblities for the platform ecosystem by implementing consumer fees rather than merchant fees.
The on-screen gender balance of cable news shows is linked with how the show adjusts to changes in the daily news agenda.
After removing a product from store shelves, brands and retailers can use diversion ratios to monitor and quantify consumers' switching behavior.
Affirmative action programs in B2B markets have a strong effect on vendors' decisions regarding whether to bid on contracts, but they do not affect vendors' pricing decisions.
When given ownership details about vendors, buyers in online B2B markets display a bias against purchasing from women-owned and minority-owned vendors.
Teaching
Courses
Marketing Research helps businesses to better understand customers and the competitive marketplace through the analysis of qualitative or quantitative data. This course focuses on learning when to use different marketing research methods, how to communicate the findings, and how their insights can be used to make better marketing decisions.
Marketing Management is a core class that focuses on introducing the key concepts of marketing. The class is organized around identifying, creating, and delivering value to customers. Students learn about the functional areas of marketing and practice making marketing decisions under uncertainty.
Marketing Analytics addresses how to use data analytics to learn about individual customers and market to them throughout the entire customer life cycle. The course focuses on using individual-level data to target customers, send them individualized offers, predict their purchasing patterns, recommend new products to them, and retain them over the long run.
Digital Marketing and Experimentation uses a measurement-centered approach to improve companies' online advertising, email marketing, and mobile marketing. This course focuses on measurement challenges in digital marketing and how to overcome those challenges by using A/B experiments and the right data comparisons.
Digital Marketing uses an analytics-centered approach to understand how to improve companies' online advertising, email marketing, and mobile marketing. This course focuses on how to measure the effectiveness of digital marketing campaigns and improve their profitability by using data analytics and A/B experiments in this context.
Digital Marketing Analytics focuses on using data analytics to improve digital marketing efforts. In this course, students will learn how to analyze digital marketing data, evaluate the effectiveness of digital marketing campaigns, and improve companies' digital marketing strategies.
Advanced Marketing Strategy focuses on understanding, developing, and evaluating marketing strategies throughout the product life cycle. In this course, students will learn how to develop a marketing strategy that is internally consistent, well-suited for the competitive situation, and likely to yield long-term success.
Business to Business (B2B) Marketing addresses how to understand, create, and deliver value when selling goods and services to other businesses, governments, and institutional customers. In this course, students will learn how business markets differ from consumer markets, how to assess opportunities in business markets, and how to make marketing decisions that deliver value for the whole ecosystem.
Honors and Awards
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Education
Contact
- nmummalaneni@wm.edu
- Office
- Miller 3070
- Mailing Address
- Simha Mummalaneni
Raymond A. Mason School of Business
William & Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 - Street Address
- Miller Hall
101 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185