Barry L. Bayus


 


Roy O. Rodwell Distinguished Professor
of Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3490
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Email: Barry_Bayus@unc.edu
Voice: (919) 962-3210
Fax: (919) 962-7186
Vitae (pdf)

Education

  • Ph.D., 1984, Operations Research, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
  • M.S., 1981, Operations Research, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
  • S.B., 1979, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • S.B., 1979, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

General Interests

  • Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
  • Innovation
  • New Product Design & Development
  • Technological Change and Product Evolution
  • Product Management
  • Creating New Markets

 

Academic Boards

 

Corporate Boards

 

Notable Achievements

  • Cited in Journal of Product Innovation Management (May 2007) as one of the world’s top 5 scholars in innovation management
  • Cited in Management Science (February 2004) as one of the top researchers in the field of innovation
  • Finalist for Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award, 2008 (for Journal of Product Innovation Management)
  • Finalist for Paul E. Green Best Paper Award, 2001 (for Journal of Marketing Research)
  • Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award, 1998 (for Journal of Product Innovation Management)

Research

Selected On-Going Work

 

“Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds for New Product Ideas,” research sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative

 

"Open Source Software Success and Failure: A Split-Population Duration Model of Whether and When Downloads Takeoff," (with B. Rajagopalan), August 2008 (under revision for Information Systems Research)

 

“Who Creates New Industries and Then Lives to Tell About It?” (with R. Echambadi and R. Agarwal), March 2008 (under revision for Management Science)

 

“Abandoning Innovation in Emerging Markets,” (with R. Agarwal and M. Tripsas), August 2005 (under revision)

 

"Creating New Markets: The Invention, Development, and Evolution of the Phonograph," research sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute (pdf)

Other Projects

 

"His Master's Voice: The Story of Eldridge R. Johnson and the Victor Talking Machine Company," documentary film released in Fall 2003 (produced by Teleduction)

"Entrepreneurship and Technological Change: Implications for Firm and Industry Evolution,” Co-Principle Investigator (with R. Agarwal, Illinois),  Kaufman Foundation Grant, 2005-8

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

“Consumer Options: Theory and An Empirical Application to a Sports Market,” (with P. Suresh and S. Balasubramanian), Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming, 2009)

 

"The Strategic Effects of Multimarket Contact: Mutual Forbearance and Competitive Response in the Personal Computer Industry," (with W. Kang and S. Balasubramanian), Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming, 2009)

 

"Product Technology Strategies and Firm Survival: The Personal Computer Industry 1974-1994," (with R. Agarwal), Management Science, 53 (12), December 2007, 1887-1902 (pdf)

 

“Creating Growth in New Markets: A Simultaneous Model of Price and Firm Entry,” (with W. Kang and R. Agarwal), Journal of Product Innovation Management, 24, 2007, 139-155 (pdf)

"New Product Strategy and Industry Clockspeed," (with G. Sousa and H. Wagner), Management Science, 50 (April) 2004, 537-549 (pdf)

"Creating and Surviving in New Product Markets," (with R. Agarwal), invited paper for Advances in Strategic Management , 21 ( Business Strategy Over the Industry Life Cycle ; J. Baum and A. McGahan, eds.), forthcoming 2004 (pdf)

"Product Complements and Substitutes in the Real World: The Relevance of 'Other' Products," (with A. Shocker and N. Kim), Journal of Marketing, 68 (January) 2004, 28-40 (pdf)

"The Financial Rewards of New Product Introductions," (with G. Erickson and R. Jacobson), Management Science, 49 (February) 2003, 197-210 (pdf)

"Network Effects and Competition: An Analysis of the Home Video Game Industry," (with V. Shankar), Strategic Management Journal, 24 (March) 2003, 375-384 (pdf; extended pdf paper)

"The Market Evolution and Take-Off of Product Innovations," (with R. Agarwal), Management Science, August 2002, 1024-1041, research sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute (pdf)

"Truth or Consequences: An Analysis of Vaporware and New Product Announcements," (with S. Jain and A. Rao), Journal of Marketing Research, 38 (February) 2001, 3-13 [Finalist for Paul E. Green Best Paper Award] (pdf; pdf complete with proofs; Vaporware List.xls)

"An Empirical Analysis of Firm Product Line Decisions," (with W. Putsis), Journal of Marketing Research, 38 (February) 2001, 110-118 (pdf)

"Product Proliferation: An Empirical Analysis of Product Line Determinants and Market Outcomes," (with W. Putsis), Marketing Science, 18 (2), 1999, 137-153 (pdf)

"An Analysis of Product Lifetimes in a Technologically Dynamic Industry," Management Science, 44 (June), 1998, 763-775 (pdf)

"Speed-to-Market and New Product Performance Tradeoffs," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 14 (November), 1997, 485-497 [Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award] (pdf)

"Too Little and Too Early: Introduction Timing and New Product Performance in the Personal Digital Assistant Industry," (with S. Jain and A. Rao), Journal of Marketing Research, (February), 1997, 50-63 (pdf)

"High Definition Television: Assessing Demand Forecasts for a Next Generation Consumer Durable," Management Science, 39 (November), 1993, 1319-1333 (pdf)

Teaching

Innovation & New Product Development (MBA; EMBA; BSBA)

Marketing Management (BSBA)

PhD Seminars on Innovation, Marketing Models, Dynamic Models

Web Case Study: The Personal Digital Assistant

Class Photos: BSBA2008

 


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