Olivier Rubel
Professor of Marketing and Analytics
Graduate School of Management
University of California Davis
Research Interests
Marketing and Sales
Experience
Current
Professor of Marketing and Analytics, University of California, Davis (GSM)
Past
Visiting Scholar, INSEAD
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of California, Davis (GSM)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of California, Davis (GSM)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing, Purdue University (Krannert)
Education
Ph.D. in Marketing, HEC Montreal (Canada)
M.Sc. in Operations Research, Universite Paris Dauphine (France)
B.Sc. in Managerial Economics, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay (France)
Publications
Real-Time Retail Analytics, with Harpreet Singh and Prasad Naik, in Precision Retailing, edited by Dube, Cohen, Yang, and Monla
Product Recalls and Channel Pricing, in Games in Management Science, edited by P.O. Pineau, SP Sigue and S. Taboubi, 2020
Data Policy and Choices in Platforms, 2019, with H. Bhargava, E. Altman, R. Arora, J. Boehnke, K. Daniels, T. Derdenger, B. Kirschner, D. LaFramboise, P. Loupos, G. Parker, A. Pattabhiramaiah, Choice Symposium, 2019
Sales Force Compensation Design for Two-Sided Market Platforms, with H. Bhargava. Journal of Marketing Research, 56(4), 666-678 2019
Measuring and forecasting mobile game app engagement, with O. Rutz and A. Aravindakshan. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 36(2), 185-199, 2019
Profiting From Product-Harm Crises in Competitive Markets, European Journal of Operational Research, 265(1), 219-227, 2018
Beyond the Opposition between Altruism and Self-Interest: Reciprocal Giving in Reward-Based Crowdfunding, with K. Andre, A. Gautier, S. Bureau, Journal of Business Ethics, 146(2), 313-332,2017
Robust Dynamic Estimation, with P. Naik, Marketing Science, 36, 3, 453-467, 2017
Dynamic Incentives in Sales Force Compensation, with A. Prasad, Marketing Science, 35, 4, 269-280, 2016
Featured by the Marketing Science Institute
Managing Blood Donations with Marketing, with A. Aravindakshan and O. Rutz, Marketing Science, 34, 2, 269-280, 2014
Stochastic Competitive Entries and Dynamic Pricing, European Journal of Operational Research, 231, 381-392, 2013
Optimal Advertising When Envisioning a Product-Harm Crisis, with P. Naik and S. Srinivasan, Marketing Science, 30, 6, 1048-1065, 2011
Competing for Consumer's Attention, with G. Martin-Herran and G. Zaccour, Automatica, 44, 361-370, 2008
Differential Game of a Dual Distribution Channel, with G. Zaccour, Advances in Dynamic Game Theory and Applications, 9, 547-568, 2007.
Working Paper
Managing Conflicts between Marketing and Sales: Customer Acquisition in Business Markets, with C. Zhu, R. Grewal and R. Raju.
Selected Honors
Academic Fellow of the Direct Selling Education Foundation
Teacher of the Year Award
Advertising Educational Foundation Program Fellow
AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Fellow
Agregation d'Economie et Gestion
HEC Montreal Recruitment Scholarship
HEC Montreal Research Scholarship
ENS de Cachan Full Scholarship
Invited Presentations
Vienna University
University of Mannheim
London Business School
INSEAD - Technology and Operations Management
INSEAD - Marketing
ISBM (Discussant)
Santa Clara University
The Millennium Alliance
Queen's University
University of Guelph
Western University
Arizona State University
EPFL
HEC Paris
IDC Herzliya
McGill University
University of Alberta
University of South Carolina
Rutgers University
University of Buffalo
University of Mannheim
Universite de Cergy-Pontoise
Canadian Blood Services
Young and Rubicam
Stanford Blood Center
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
London Business School
UC Berkeley
Reviewing
Editorial Board Membership
Customer Needs and Solution
Journal of Business Research
Marketing Science
Ad Hoc Reviewing
Annals of Operations Research
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Automatica
Belgium Science Foundation
Dynamic Games and Applications
Energy Review
European Journal of Marketing
European Journal of Operational Research
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Information Systems Research
International Transactions in Operations Research
ISBM Dissertation Proposal Competition
Israel Science Foundation
Journal of African Business
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Journal of Retailing
Management and Business Review
Management Science
Marketing Science
MSI Clayton Award
MSOM
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Operations Research
Production and Operations Management
Shankar Spiegel Doctoral Award
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Teaching Experience
Analytic Decision Making (MSBA)
Dynamic Optimization (Doctoral Workshop)
Marketing Management (MBA)
Marketing Strategies (MBA)
Marketing Research (BA)
Mutli-Channel Marketing (MBA)
Strategic Thinking (Executive Education)