Mendoza College of Business
Associate Professor of Marketing
The Last Show - with David Cooper
Audio
November 12, 2025
Marketing professor Vamsi Kanuri reveals how customers can become more loyal if their banks solve fraud cases.
The Conversation
November 06, 2025
Vamsi Kanuri, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame
U.S. News & World Report
October 14, 2025
So, in theory, the customer should have been happy. Instead, what really made the difference for the bank was identifying the perpetrator. “We never thought in our wildest dreams that we'd actually find this in our study," says Vamsi Kanuri, associate professor of marketing at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and one of the researchers who conducted the study. "Banks were very surprised."
Bank News
October 01, 2025
The study was based on five years of data from more than 422,000 customers at a major U.S. bank. “When fraud is resolved with clear accountability, customers not only stay but often become more loyal,” said Notre Dame Professor of Marketing Vamsi Kanuri. “This is a real-world demonstration of the service recovery paradox, where effective handling of a failure can actually strengthen relationships.”
ABA Banking Journal
September 26, 2025
Vamsi Kanuri, co-author of the paper and an associate professor of marketing at Notre Dame, said the researchers initially suspected that fraud would harm a customer’s relationship with the bank even if the fraud was resolved.
Science Magazine
September 25, 2025
Recent research by Vamsi Kanuri, the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, offers a compelling case for why banks must persist in their efforts, not because of immediate monetary gain but due to long-term customer loyalty benefits.
Payments Journal
September 23, 2025
“Intuitively, we might expect that any instance of fraud would harm the relationship between a customer and their bank, even if the case was resolved,” Vamsi Kanuri, author of the study, told Notre Dame News. “Yet in cases of correct attribution, not only do customers stay, but they also display higher levels of loyalty than those untouched by fraud.”
phys.org
August 20, 2025
Rather than boosting e-commerce, the change drives many online shoppers into the stores, leading to an overall increase in sales from both channels, according to the lead author Vamsi Kanuri, the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Marketing at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
Futurity
November 12, 2024
Posts containing complex images with more varied color patterns tend to capture greater user attention and lead to increased engagement, according to lead author Vamsi Kanuri, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
The Conversation
October 15, 2024
Vamsi Kanuri, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame