Student Track Record

The PhD program in marketing at Yale is relatively new and therefore has a fairly short track record. However, the quality of the initial placements and the research records of these students have been impressive.

Sridhar Balasubramanian, the first graduate from the Ph.D. program, accepted an offer from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation paper titled "Mail versus Mall: A Strategic Analysis of Competition between Direct Marketers and Conventional Retailers" won the prestigious John D.C. Little Award for the Best Marketing Paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science in 1998. Sridhar also published a coauthored paper in Marketing Science with Professors Subrata Sen, Edward Kaplan and William Putsis (then at Yale) as a doctoral student. He was recently awarded a $500,000 grant from the NSF to support his research on Virtual Investor Communities on the Internet. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thomas Steenburgh, joined the Harvard Business School in 2003. Apart from his dissertation research, Tom published a paper in Marketing Science, when he was in the Marketing PhD program.

Uzma Khan, joined Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Tepper School of Business in 2005. Uzma won the AMA's John A. Howard Doctoral Dissertation award for 2005.

Jackie Luan, who was on the job market this year (Fall 2005) was very well received on the market. She will be joining Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business starting Fall 2006.

We believe that the breadth and depth of the research training offered at Yale coupled with the close research interactions our students have with the faculty during their doctoral studies is an excellent recipe for the continued and consistent successes of our doctoral students in the academic job market.

Sridhar Balasubramanian (1997)
Initial Placement: University of Texas, Austin
Current Placement: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Arbind Prasad (2000)
Initial Placement: Indian Administrative Service

Steven Strauss (2001)
Initial Placement: McKinsey & Company

Thomas Steenburgh (2003)
Initial Placement: Harvard Business School

Uzma Khan (2005)
Initial Placement: Carnegie Mellon University

Jackie Luan (to graduate in 2006)
Initial Placement: Tuck School, Dartmouth

 

Sumon Datta (Second Year)
Kelly Goldsmith (Second Year)
Eunice Kim (Second Year)
Hema Yoganarasimhan (Second Year)
Anastasiya Pocheptsova (Third Year)
Sachin Sancheti (Third Year)
Jing (Jane) Wang (Third Year)
Jacqueline (Ye) Luan (Fifth Year)