Vineet Kumar 


I am a PhD Candidate at CMU's Tepper School studying issues at the intersection of marketing, social networks and media, and technology products and services.

From a methodological viewpoint, my primary interests are in Theoretical and Empirical IO methods.

Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks 

 (Job Market Paper)



Working Papers
- Abstracts

Consumer-driven Promotions through Social Networks, (joint with Baohong Sun and Ramayya Krishnan)

Product Strategy for Commercial Open Source Software (joint with Brett Gordon and Kannan Srinivasan)

How an Innovator Can Leap Forward by Tying Up With a Laggard (joint with Kannan Srinivasan)

Structural Analysis of Service-time Segmentation, with an Application to the Online DVD Rental Market (joint with Yacheng Sun, and Baohong Sun)

How Structure and Content Interact in Online Social Media