Biography
Manish Tripathi joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in 2008 after completing a PhD in marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned a BA in economics from Stanford and, prior to his doctoral studies, worked for four years as a marketing and business development manager at Homestead Technologies, a software company in Menlo Park, California. He also worked as a financial analyst for the investment bank Hambrecht & Quist , conducting valuation, financial advisory, and transaction execution for technology and emerging growth companies. His research interests include multi-channel strategies, market structure and entry, structural models, and Bayesian statistics.

 

Works in Progress

• “Order of Entry and Exit Effects for Multi-channel firms: A eBay Analysis”
• “The Impact of Asymmetric Incentives in the Franchise Market”
• “Bayesian Neural Networks and Boost Algorithms: Alternative Approaches for Customer Lifetime Value Classification.”

Working Papers

• “Spillovers from Offline Entry: An Analysis of Buyer and Seller Behavior on eBay”
• “Vertically & Horizontally Differentiated Product Quality and Market Size in the e-Commerce Market”
• “Measuring the Mere-Measurement Effect,” with E. T. Anderson and K. T. Hansen.

Areas of Specialization

• Multi-channel strategies
• Market structure and entry
• Structural models
• Bayesian statistics

Achievements and Honors

• Northwestern University Fellowship, 2003-2007
• Haring Symposium Fellow, Bloomington, IN, 2007

Academic Background
PhD, Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2008
MS, Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006
BA, Economics, Stanford University, 1998