Stacey Mumbower

Dr. Stacey Mumbower is an Associate Professor Department of Decision Science and Analytics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus. Prior to joining Embry-Riddle, Dr. Mumbower was a clinical assistant professor of management science in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, where she also served as founding Director of the Center for Applied Business Analytics. Before her academic positions, she was a post-doctoral Prevention Effectiveness Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she worked on resource allocation models for HIV prevention funding. She was also previously a statistical analyst in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Office of Transportation Data and state-coordinator of the Highway Performance Monitoring System. Dr. Mumbower’s research leverages online data to better understand airline pricing and product strategies and how these strategies impact customers, as well as the industry in general. She compiles data sets that track airfares, seat maps and products displayed to online customers over the booking horizon. She has used these data to explore factors that influence airline customers’ decisions to purchase premium coach seats and to estimate the revenue impacts of different seat pricing strategies. Her research has been published in Manufacturing Service Operations Management, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Journal of Air Transport Management, and Transportation Research Record. To address the lack of disaggregate airline data available to researchers, her airline pricing data sets were made publicly available in Manufacturing Service Operations Management as downloadable data sets with open access. She uses these pricing data sets to develop hands-on activities that teach students how to use data analytics software, providing them with practical experience with analytics.