PRASAD A. NAIK

 

Professor & Chancellor’s Fellow

Graduate School of Management

University of California, Davis


Education and Experience
 

1984

     BS

University of Bombay, Bombay, India, (Chemical Engineering)

1987 

     MBA

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India (Marketing)

1996

     PhD

University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl. (Marketing)

1996-2002

     Assistant Professor

University of California Davis, CA (Marketing)

2002-2005

     Associate Professor

University of California Davis, CA (Marketing)

2005-present     

     Professor & Chancellor's Fellow

University of California Davis, CA (Marketing)


Honors & Grants

 

  • Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California Davis (2004-2009)
  • Consortium Faculty (2004), American Marketing Association
  • Top 20 Young Scholars in Marketing (2003), Marketing Science Institute
  • Grant from Teradata Centre for CRM (with Michel Wedel), Duke University
  • Frank M. Bass Award for the best dissertation-based paper, INFORMS
  • Professor of the Year Award for outstanding teaching, GSM UC Davis
  • Doctoral Dissertation Award, Academy of Marketing Science
  • Marquis Who’s Who in the World

Editorial Board

 

  • Marketing Science
  • Marketing Letters
  • Journal of Interactive Marketing

Conferences

 


Selected Publications

 


Invited Presentations

 


Teaching

 

  • International Study Trip 2006 (Brazil and Argentina)
  • International Study Trip 2005 (Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai)
  • International Study Trip 2004 (Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia)
  • New Product Development (UC Davis)
  • Integrated Marketing Communications (UC Davis)
  • Marketing Management (UC Davis, UC San Diego)
  • Sales Management (University of Florida)
  • Product Management (Institute of Management Technology, India).

Work Experience

 

UC Davis Wine Executive Program, Davis

Crushing the Competition: Marketing for the Wine Industry

This seminar provides the essential concepts and methods to enhance the effectiveness of your marketing program.  It covers topics such as consumer decision-making, assessing advertising effectiveness, database marketing, selling wines online, and forecasting market sales.  Participants acquire new ways of thinking about managing brands and integrating marketing communications.

 

UC Davis Connect, Davis

Advisory Board

Our mission is to help create new ventures in the Sacramento region.  One of the biggest problems facing start-up companies here is the lack of knowledge in management, marketing, legal and operational aspects when seeking equity investment.  To narrow these gaps, we conduct a Springboard Program that selects a few promising start-ups and prepares them via several mentoring sessions.  We provide entrepreneurs fresh and candid recommendations for continued development of their business opportunity, and conduct dress rehearsals for future presentations to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.

 

GlaxoSmithKline, India

Brand Management

Managed a launch of a national brand successfully; test marketed several new product introductions; designed advertising strategy and TV commercials with ad agencies such as J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather.

 

Sales Management

Responsible for sales growth and profit; managed salesforce efforts and compensation; developed network of wholesale and retail distribution; planned and executed consumer & trade promotions; developed sales and profit forecasts

 

Dorr Oliver, India

Business-to-Business Marketing

Managed marketing and techno-commercial negotiations for hi-tech filtration systems in chemical industry.


Updated May 2007