Call for Nominations—Editor-in-Chief, Marketing Science

The final term of Preyas S. Desai as editor-in-chief of the journal Marketing Science will end on December 31, 2015. Based on recommendations from the INFORMS Publications Committee, the president of INFORMS has appointed a committee to conduct a full search for a new editor-in-chief. The committee intends to propose a candidate for approval by INFORMS no later than July 1, 2015.

All members of INFORMS are invited to participate in this process. The committee seeks your opinions and comments on (1) the current state of the journal, (2) recommendations for change, if any, and (3) candidates for editor-in-chief.

Qualifications for the editor-in-chief of Marketing Science will include

• A demonstrated interest in a broad range of topics in the field

• A demonstrated record of research in the field

• Dedication and enthusiasm for Marketing Science

• Significant editorial experience

• Vision of the role of scholarly publications in the electronic age

• Commitment to the workload involved

• Ability to effectively and efficiently manage the editorial process

Further information about the journal is available at the Marketing Science website: http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/mksc.

Members of the search committee are Kannan Srinivasan (Chair), Carnegie Mellon University; Pradeep K. Chintagunta, University of Chicago; Peter S. Fader, University of Pennsylvania; Dominique M. Hanssens, UCLA; and Juanjuan Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Please submit comments, nominations, and applications by April 15, 2015. The information may be sent (preferably by email) to Kannan Srinivasan, Chair of the Marketing Science Editorial Search Committee.