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Professor Prasad Naik’s Groundbreaking Marketing Research

Professor Prasad Naik’s groundbreaking marketing research gives managers powerful new tools and innovative approaches to determine the most strategic media mix for ad campaigns and measure the effectiveness of integrated marketing communications.

I want UC Davis MBA students to be inspired and be enlightened. I want them to go out and make actual change in the practice of management because of what they learn here. That’s my unstated rule. –Prasad Naik, Professor of Marketing

Prasad Naik
Professor of Marketing

  • UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow
  • Led MBA International Trips to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Brazil, and Argentina
  • Joined UC Davis in 1996

Courses Taught

  • Integrated Marketing Communications
  • Marketing Management
  • New Product Development

Research Expertise

Marketing and advertising strategy; dynamic market response models, including preparing for product harm crisis

Degrees

  • Ph.D.
    University of Florida, Gainesville
  • MBA
    Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering
    University of Bombay

Commands

Spotlight Story

UC Davis Part-time MBA among Top 7%, Daytime MBA in Top 9%
U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings: This marks the 18th consecutive year our MBA program has been ranked among the best in the nation.

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(Davis, CA) — The UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s full-time MBA program has been ranked among the top six percent of AACSB International-accredited programs nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest graduate business school rankings released today.

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Powerful Alumni Network
UC Davis MBAs are international business leaders, rising managers and entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries and organizations

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Since our charter class graduated more than 25 years ago, alumni from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management have been making their presence known around the world.

Our graduates are CEOs, vice presidents, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and entrepreneurs. Around the globe, they have taken prominent roles as international business leaders in a wide range of industries and organizations.

Graduate School of Management alumni are actively involved in their communities, and they make time for mentoring, advising and assisting current students and networking with fellow graduates.

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Mark Otero MBA 07 Builds Sacramento’s Coolest Company
The secret of social gaming mogul Mark Otero’s success is taking things to the extreme

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The secret of Midtown Sacramento’s Facebook gaming mogul Mark Otero’s success is taking things to the extreme.