Dr. Kumar is the recipient of the 2007 AMA Strategy SIG Mahajan Award for Lifetime Contribution to Marketing Strategy in Washington D.C. in August 2007.
   
Dr. Kumar is the recipient of the 2007 AMA IOSIG Lifetime Contribution Award to Interorganizational Issues in Washington D.C. in August 2007.
   
Dr. Kumar is the finalist for the 2007 ISMS Practice Prize in The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in October 2007
   
Dr. Kumar is the recipient of the Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in University of Connecticut in 2007.
   
Dr. Kumar is the recipient of the Best Paper " Honorable Mention Award" in University of Connecticut in 2007.
   
Dr. Kumar is the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award in MBA Program in University of Connecticut in 2007.
   
Dr. Kumar is the winner of $100,000 ISBM/MSI Academic Practitioner Challenge in Chicago in August 2006.
   
Dr. Kumar is invited as a Faculty Scholar to the 2006 American Marketing Association's Doctoral Consortium in University of Maryland in College park, MD.
   
Dr. Kumar is the finalist for the 2006 ISMS Practice Prize in Pittsburgh in June 2006.
   
Dr. Kumar is the runner-up for the Best Paper Award in Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2006.
   
Winner of the MSI/Paul H. Root Award (second time) for the Paper Published in Journal of Marketing in 2005 that best contributes to the Practice of Marketing.
   
Recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Retailing, July 2005.
 
Recipient of Best Paper Award, University of Connecticut, 2004 - 2005.
   
Winner of the Don Lehmann Award (second time) for the best Paper published in Journal of Marketing/ Journal of Marketing Research in a 2-year period (2003-2004), August 2005.
   
Winner of the Outstanding Paper Award in 2004 for the best paper published in a 2 year period (2000 – 2001) in the International Journal of Forecasting.
   
Winner of the MSI/Paul H. Root Award for the Paper Published in Journal of Marketing in 2003 that best contributes to the Practice of Marketing.
Recipient of Research Excellence Award,
University of Connecticut, 2002 - 2003.
Recipient of Best Paper Award,
University of Connecticut, 2002 - 2003.
   
 
 
Winner of the Don Lehmann Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Marketing / Journal of Marketing Research  in  a 2-year period (1992-2000), August 2001.
 
   
 
 
Recipient of the Research Grant from Duke University for research on Customer Relationship Management.
 
   
 
 
Recipient of the Research Grant from Northwestern University for research on Coupon Promotions.
 
   
 
 
Speaker, Direct Marketing Program at the Yeck Center in Harvard University.
 
   
 
 
Presented Research Papers at Leading Universities worldwide including Stanford, INSEAD, HKUST, University of Sydney, FGV Brazil, ITESM- Mexico.
 
   
 
 
Coauthored texts on "Marketing Research" with faculty from The Wharton School and University of California, Berkeley.
 
   
 
 
Coauthored texts on "Essentials of Marketing Research" with faculty from The Wharton School and University of California, Berkeley.
 
   
 
 
Author of International Marketing Research book published by Prentice-Hall.
 
   
 
 
Published numerous articles in scholarly journals including Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, International Journal of Forecasting and Marketing Letters. 
 
   
 
 
Two of my most  recent doctoral students (1999 and 2001) won the best dissertation award from American Marketing Association and Marketing Science Institute, respectively.
 
   
 
 
Recipient of the Abell - Hanger Presidential Scholarship and Merit Scholarship in the PhD program at University of Texas at Austin.
 
   
 
 
First Rank (Gold Medalist) in the Master's Program, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
 
   
 
 
Recognized as one of the top 15 Scholars in Marketing worldwide.
 
   
 

 

 
 

   
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