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Jagmohan Raju
Joseph J. Aresty Professor, Professor of Marketing, Executive Director Wharton Co-Sponsorship of Indian School of Business and Marketing Department Chairperson


Professor Jagmohan S. Raju is the Joseph J. Aresty Professor and Director of the Wharton-Indian School of Business Program. Professor Raju is internationally known for his research on pricing strategies, coupon programs, managing private labels and sales force compensation. He consults extensively with companies around the world including Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Warner Home Video, and Johnson and Johnson on designing pricing strategies and developing launch plans for new products.

In a recent research project, Professor Raju and his coauthors examine the benefits and consequences of category management for retailers pointing out what categories are most suitable for this practice.

A prolific scholar, Professor Raju's research has been published in top-tier academic journals including Management Science, the Journal of Retailing, and Marketing Science. He also serves as the Marketing Editor of Management Science and is the President of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, a professional organization whose members include marketing academics and business executives who apply quantitative methods to solve marketing problems. He has received numerous teaching and research awards.

Professor Raju's teaching interests include Introduction to Marketing courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, the pricing elective at Wharton as well as teaching and directing Competitive Marketing Strategy, Essentials of Marketing and Pricing Strategies for Wharton's Executive MBA program.

Professor Raju received his PhD, MA and MS degrees from Stanford University, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Current Research Papers
S. Sajeesh, Jagmohan Raju, (2007), "Positioning and Pricing in a Variety Seeking Market", Management Science
Yusong Wang, Sanjay K. Dhar, Jagmohan Raju, (2007), "The Choice of Consequences of Using a Category Captain for Category Management"
Andre Bonfrer, Jagmohan Raju "CEO Succession and its Impact on Competitive Behavior"
Upender Subramanian, Jagmohan Raju, Z. John Zhang "Customer Value Based Management: Competitive Implications"
Rajeev Tyagi, Jagmohan Raju "Preemptive National Brand Positioning Strategies Response Store Brand Entry", Management Science

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Publications
Abhik Roy, Namwoon Kim, Jagmohan Raju "Assessing New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) Methods: Case of Five Industries", International Journal of Research in Marketing,  23, pp 369-383
Tony Cui, Jagmohan Raju, Z. John Zhang "A Price-Discrimination Model of Trade Promotions", Marketing Science
Yuxin Chen, Yogesh Joshi, Jagmohan Raju, Z. John Zhang "A Theory of Combative Advertising", Marketing Science,  2006
Tony Cui, Jagmohan Raju, Z. John Zhang "Fairness and Channel Coordination", Management Science,  August 2007
Andres Musalem, Eric Bradlow, Jagmohan Raju "Who’s Got the Coupon: Estimating Consumer Preferences and Coupon Usage from Aggregate Information", Journal of Marketing Research

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Awards
Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Course Teaching Award,  2006
Finalist, Best Paper Award, International Journal of Research in Marketing,  2006
WEMBA West MBA Elective Teaching Award,  2005
WEMBA West Elective Teaching Award,  2004
Finalist, Frank Bass Award,  2004

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Current Projects
Strategic alliances. Retailing decisions with special focus on private labels and category management. Internet pricing. Scenario forecasting for entertainment and high-tech products.

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Executive Education
Co-Academic Director,  Pricing Strategies: Measuring, Capturing and Retaining Value
Program Faculty,  Marketing Metrics: Linking Marketing to Financial Consequences
Academic Director,  Essentials of Marketing
Co-Academic Director,  Competitive Marketing Strategy

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Best Buy vs. Wal-Mart: Is There Room for Both, and Others? (04/01/2009)
Take Two Advil and ... What Ills Can the Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Cure? (02/04/2009)
Tuning in a Post-merger Strategy: Sirius XM Must Cut Costs and Build Its Case (09/03/2008)
The New Global Middle Class: Potentially Profitable -- but Also Unpredictable (07/09/2008)
In the Game of Business, Playing Fair Can Actually Lead to Greater Profits (03/13/2008)
Why Firing Your Worst Customers Isn't Such a Great Idea (12/12/2007)
The Price Is Right, but Maybe It's Not, and How Do You Know? (10/03/2007)
Indian Companies Are on an Acquisition Spree: Their Target? U.S. Firms (12/13/2006)
Companies That Use Combative Advertising May End Up with a Black Eye (06/14/2006)
Will Microsoft's New 'Ultra-Mobile' Computer Fly or Flop? Past Experience Offers Some Clues (03/22/2006)

 
 
Raju Jagmohan
Jagmohan Raju
700 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia , PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-1114
Fax: (215) 898-2534
rajuj@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests: Pricing; Retailing; Sales Promotions and Coupons; Private Labels; Optimizing Channel Contracts; Competitive Strategy.
Current Projects:
Effect of Variety Seeking Consumers on Optimal Product Positioning Strategies. The Consequences of using Category Captains in Consumer Packaged Goods.
 


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