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Jiwoong Shin

Jiwoong Shin

Professor of Marketing

Professor Shin’s research focuses on quantitative marketing, marketing strategy, and applied economic theory. He is a leading scholar in marketing strategy, and his research focuses on analytical modeling of strategic interactions between firms and consumers. His several award-winning pieces of research advance our understanding of firms’ strategic decisions in the context of social interactions and digital marketing; in particular, consumer journey in the digital sphere, word of mouth, advertising, pricing strategies, and CRM.
 
Also, Professor Shin’s research is published in all of the premier academic marketing and economics journals: Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, RAND Journal of Economics, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. ​For two years in a row (2010, 2011), Shin has been the recipient of the John D. C. Little Best Paper Award, awarded for the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science and Management Science. In 2011, he was also named a Marketing Science Institute​ Young Scholar, a title awarded to “potential leaders of the next generation of marketing academics.” In 2018, he was once again recognized for his influence in the field by being nominated as a Marketing Science Institute inaugural MIS Scholar,​ a title awarded to “top scholars recognizing individuals’ excellence in scholarship who have already helped to set the research agenda for the field.”  He was a recipient of 2020 Inspiring Yale award for inspiring Yale students in and out of the classroom. He now serves as a Vice President of ISMS (INFORMS Society for Marketing Science).

Education

  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MS, Seoul National University
  • BS, Seoul National University

Articles

Predictive Analytics and Ship-then-shop Subscription

Choi, Jason, Q. Liu, and J. Shin
Management Science
2023 | Forthcoming

A Model of Product Portfolio Design: Guiding Consumer Search through Brand Positioning

Ke, Tony, J. Shin, and J. Yu
Marketing Science, Articles in Advance, issue 2022
2022

A Theory of Irrelevant Advertising: An Agency-Induced Targeting Inefficiency

J. Shin and W. Shin
Management Science, Articles in Advance, issue 2022
2022

Ratcheting of Profitability Expectations and its Consequence for Supply Chains

Mittendorf, Brian, J. Shin, and D. Yoon
Journal of Marketing Research, issue 2022, vol. 59(2), pp. 290-305
2022

Working Papers

Online Targeted Advertising: how do consumers make inferences?

B. Sen, J. Shin, and K. Sudhir
Marketing Science
2019

A Model of Brand Positioning: Product Perspective

T. Ke, J. Shin, and J. Yu
2019

The Granularity and Value of Information in Targeted Advertising

D. Chang, J. Shin, and J. Yu
2019

Ratcheting of Profitability Expectations and its Consequence for Supply Chains

B. Sen, J. Shin, and D-H. Yoon
2018

Achievements

  • Vice President of Education, ISMS (INFORMS Society for Marketing Science), 2021-
    Finalist, 2020 ISMS Long-term Impact Award (“A Customer Management Dilemma: When is it Profitable to Reward One’s Own Customers?”)
    Inspiring Yale Award 2020 for inspiring students in and out of the classroom
    MSI Scholars 2018
    , the inaugural class of faculty
    Winner, 2011 John D. C. Little Best Paper Award (“Uninformative Advertising as an Invitation to Search”)
    Winner, 2010 John D. C. Little Best Paper Award (“A Customer Management Dilemma: When is it Profitable to Reward One’s Own Customers?”)