Stacey M Mumbower

Title
Assistant Professor, College of Business
Email
Department
Department of Decision Science and Analytics
College
College of Business

Areas of Expertise

Pricing and Revenue Management, Air Travel Operations, Transport Policy, Transportation Economics, Business Analytics, Data Visualization, Predictive Modeling
Stacey M Mumbower

Dr. Stacey Mumbower is an Assistant Professor of Management and Technology in the College of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Transportation Systems from Georgia Tech. She also holds an M.S. in Statistics from Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics from Valdosta State University. 

Prior to joining Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 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 and database administrator in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Office of Transportation Data.

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. Her research has been published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Journal of Air Transport Management, Transportation Research Record, and Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Statistics, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
  • B.A. - Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Valdosta State University
  • SAS Certified Predictive Modeler Using SAS Enterprise Miner - SAS
  • BUAN 524: Applied Bus Intel & Analytics
  • BUAN 522: Busn Anyl,Soc Netwk &Web Anyl
  • BUAN 523: Data Mining for Business Anyl
  • BUAN 505: Info Anyl & Visualzn Decn Mkg

MMIS 501 - Managing the IS Enterprise

MMIS 690 - Management Info Sys Capstone

  1. Mumbower, S., Hotle, S. & Garrow, L. A. (2022). Highly debated but still unbundled: The evolution of U.S. airline ancillary products and pricing strategies. Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41272-022-00388-5
  2. Mumbower, S. (2022). Airline market exit after a shock event: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 14, 100621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100621
  3. Sobieralski, J. B., & Mumbower, S. (2022). Jet-setting during COVID-19: Environmental implications of the pandemic induced private aviation boom. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 13, 100575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100575
  4. Hotle, S., & Mumbower, S. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic U.S. Air Travel Operations and Commercial Airport Service, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 100277, ISSN 2590-1982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100277
  5. Atallah, S., Hotle. S.L., & Mumbower, S. (2018). The evolution of low-cost carrier operational strategies pre- and post- recession. Journal of Air Transport Management, 73: 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.08.011
  6. Mumbower, S., Garrow, L.A., & Newman, J.P. (2015). Investigating airline customers' premium coach seat purchases and implications for optimal pricing strategies. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 73: 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2014.12.008
  7. Mumbower, S., & Garrow, L.A. (2014). Data set: Online pricing data for multiple U.S. carriers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 16(2): 198–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/msom.2013.0466
  8. Mumbower, S., Garrow, L.A., & Higgins, M.J. (2014). Estimating flight-level price elasticities using online airline data: A First Step towards integrating pricing, demand, and revenue optimization. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 66: 196–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2014.05.003
  9. Garrow, L.A., Hotle, S., & Mumbower, S. (2012). Assessment of product debundling trends in the U.S. airline industry: Customer service and public policy implications. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 46(2): 255–268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2011.09.009
  10. Garrow, L.A., Kressner, J., & Mumbower, S. (2011). Is increasing airline denied boarding compensation limits the answer?: A review of factors that contribute to denied boardings. Journal of Air Transport Management, 17(5): 271–277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2011.03.002
  11. Mumbower, S., & Garrow, L.A. (2010). Using online data to explore competitive airline pricing policies: A case study approach. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2184:1–12. https://doi.org/10.3141/2184-01