Eva Ascarza

Harvard Business School

Associate Professor

Soldiers Field

Boston, MA 02163

United States

http://evaascarza.com

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Scholarly Papers (12)

1.

The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-76
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 16 May 2015
Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 823 (48,210)
Citation 9

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Churn, Retention, Field Experiment, Pricing, Nonlinear pricing, Tariff/Plan choice, Targeting

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In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2903548, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-16
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2017
Harvard Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing, Electronic Arts, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), London Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Adelson School of Entrepreneuship, Duke University, New York University and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-28
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 06 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2018
Eva Ascarza
Harvard Business School
Downloads 650 (65,936)
Citation 31

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Churn, retention, proactive churn management, field experiments, heterogeneous treatment effect, random forest, customer relationship management, machine learning

4.

Beyond the Target Customer: Social Effects of CRM Campaigns

HEC Paris Research Paper No. MKG-2015-1111, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 15-82
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2016
Harvard Business School, HEC Paris - Marketing, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing and Globys
Downloads 478 (96,677)
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Field experiments, Targeting, Churn, Retention, Mobile

5.

When Talk is 'Free': The Effect of Tariff Structure on Usage under Two- and Three-Part Tariffs

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 09 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2017
Harvard Business School, London Business School and London Business School
Downloads 322 (151,254)
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Pricing, Nonlinear Pricing, Discrete/Continuous Choice Model, Three-Part Tariffs, Uncertainty, Learning, Free products

A Joint Model of Usage and Churn in Contractual Settings

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2017
Eva Ascarza and Bruce Hardie
Harvard Business School and London Business School
Downloads 315 (153,810)
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Churn, retention, contractual settings, access services, hidden Markov models, RFM, latent variable models

A Joint Model of Usage and Churn in Contractual Settings

Marketing Science, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2013; pp. 570-590; DOI: 10.1287/mksc.2013.0786, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-77
Posted: 13 Nov 2013
Eva Ascarza and Bruce Hardie
Harvard Business School and London Business School

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churn, retention, contractual settings, access services, hidden Markov models, RFM, latent variable models

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Detecting Routines: Implications for Ridesharing CRM

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 11 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2023
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Harvard Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing and Columbia University
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routines, customer management, customer relationship management, Bayesian nonparametrics, Gaussian processes, machine learning, ride-sharing

8.

The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings

Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Jan 2021
Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
Harvard Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing and Facebook
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Freemium, Retention, Monetization, Gaming, Field Experiments

9.

Some Customers Would Rather Leave Without Saying Goodbye

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 15-55
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 May 2015 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2016
Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Bruce Hardie
Harvard Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing and London Business School
Downloads 226 (216,398)
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Churn, retention, attrition, customer relationship management, customer base analysis, hidden Markov models, latent variable models

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Eliminating unintended bias in personalized policies using Bias Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT)

Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 22-010
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit
Downloads 212 (230,893)
Citation 1

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Algorithmic bias, personalization, targeting, generalized random forests (GRF), fairness, discrimination

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Doing More with Less: Overcoming Ineffective Long-term Targeting Using Short-Term Signals

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 24 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 148 (314,196)

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Long-run Targeting, Heterogeneous Treatment effect, Statistical Surrogacy, Customer Churn, Field Experiments

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Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of Customer Relationship Management using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

Journal of Marketing Research, 58(5), 981–1006. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222437211032938
Posted: 17 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2021
Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
London Business School - Department of Marketing and Harvard Business School

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Deep Exponential Families, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Cold Start Problem.