March 2007
ACADEMIC VITA (long version)
John R. Hauser

 

Office Address Education Lifetime Achievement Awards Awards for Published Papers Awards, Teaching Awards for Thesis Supervision Awards, Other Directorships, Trustee, Advisory BoardTeaching Experience Teaching Interests Research Interests Texts Journal Editor Journal PublicationsPapers in Edited Volumes Magazine Articles Submitted Papers and Working Papers Research in Progress Research Reports Research Grants Invited Lectures Presentations at Professional Meetings Professional Affiliations Professional Services Conference Chairman Segment Chairman Session Chairman Committee MembershipsLitigation Consulting Marketing, Marketing Research, and Product Development Consulting M.I.T. Committee Work M.I.T. Subjects TaughtSummer Session, ILP, and External Executive Pedagogical Developments M.I.T. Thesis Supervision Northwestern University Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

 

Address

MIT Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E40-179
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
(617) 253-2929 Fax: (617) 258-7597
jhauser@mit.edu; web.mit.edu/hauser/www; mitsloan.mit.edu/vc

 

Education

Sc.D M.I.T., 1975, Operations Research Dissertation: "A Normative Methodology for Predicting Consumer Response to Design Decisions: Issues, Models, Theory and Use."
S.M. M.I.T., 1973, Civil Engineering (Transportation Systems Division)
S.M. M.I.T., 1973, Electrical Engineering
S.B. M.I.T., 1973, Electrical Engineering
Joint Thesis (S.M.'s and S. B.): "An Efficient Method to Predict the Impacts of Operating Decisions for Conventional Bus Systems"

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Parlin Award 2001, The American Marketing Association describes this award as "the oldest and most distinguished award in the marketing research field"

Converse Award 1996, the American Marketing Association, for "outstanding contributions to the development of the science of marketing."

Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

Inaugural Fellow of the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science (ISMS)

Highly Cited Researcher (ISI), Since 2006.

Awards for Published Papers

INFORMS:
(formerly The Institute
of Management Science)

John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 2003, First Place.
John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 1998, Finalist.

John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 1994, Finalist.

John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 1993, First Place.
John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 1990, Honorable Mention.

Best paper in Marketing Sciences Literature, 1984, Honorable mention.
Best Paper in Marketing Sciences Literature, 1983, First Place.

Best Paper in Marketing Sciences Literature, 1982, First Place.John D.C. Little Best-paper Award, 1993, First Place.

Two published articles were cited in 2007 as one of “the top 20 marketing science articles in the past 25 years.

American Marketing Association:

Explor Award (Leadership in On-line Market Research), 2004, First-Place.
Finalist, Paul Green Award for contributions to marketing research, 2004.
MSI Award for Most Significant Contribution to Practice of Marketing in 1996.
Finalist, O'dell Award for best paper in the Journal of Marketing Research, published in 1986, awarded in 1991.

Product Development Management Assoc.

Best Paper Award, Finalist, 2003.
Best Paper Award, Finalist, 2002.
One of ten most-cited papers in the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
One of the top articles in educational citations in the last twenty years.

Sawtooth Software Conference Best Presentation and Paper, 2006.
European Society of Marketing Research: Best Paper at Rome conference, September 1984.
Doctoral Consoria Faculty American Marketing Association, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
INFORMS Society of Marketing Science, 2002 (founding member), 2003, 2004.
European Marketing Academy, 1985
.

Awards, Teaching

Sloan School of Management:

Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award 2000, 2007.
Named "Outstanding Faculty" by Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools (1995).

Excellence in Teaching Award 1994 (Awarded by the Master's Student class).

Awards for Thesis Supervision

American Marketing Association (Ph.D.):

Co-winner John Howard Dissertation Award (2005, Olivier Toubia)

1st Place (1981, Ken Wisniewski) 
Honorable Mention (1979, Patricia Simmie)

INFORMS (Ph.D.): Winner of the Frank Bass Award (2004, Olivier Toubia, awarded 2005)
Winner of the Frank Bass Award (1989, Abbie Griffin, awarded 1995)
Sloan School of Management (Ph.D.): 1st Place (1987, Peter Fader)
Sloan School of Management (Master's): 1st Place (1991, Jon Silver and John Thompson)
1st Place (1983, Steve Gaskin)
Honorable Mention (1982, Larry Kahn)

  Awards, Other

Who’s Who in America Since 1997
Who’s Who in Management Science Since 2000
Who's Who in Economics Since 2003
Harvard Business School: Marvin Bower Fellow, 1987 - 1988.
National Science Foundation Fellowship: 1971 - 1974.
M.I.T.: National Scholar, 1967 - 1971.
Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi

  Directorships, Trustee, Advisory Board

1988 - Present Founder, Principal, Board Member, Applied Marketing Science, Inc.
March 2003 - Present Trustee, Marketing Science Institute
January 2004 - Present Advisory Board, Affinnova, Inc.

Academic Appointments

January 1989 - Present: Kirin Professor of Marketing
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
July 2005 - Present: Area Head, Management Science Area
July 1988 - June 2003: Head, Marketing Group
September 1993 - May 2000: co-Director, International Center for Research on the Management of Technology
September 1997 - May 2000: Research Director, Center for Innovation in Product Development
June 2001 - June 2006: Virtual Customer Initiative Leader, Center for Innovation in Product Development
July 1984 - January 1989: Professor of Management Science
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
July 1987 - June 1988: Marvin Bower Fellow
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02163
March 1985 - May 1985: Visiting Lecturer
European Institute of Business Administration
Fontainebleau, FRANCE
September 1980 - June 1984: Associate Professor of Management Science
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
September 1975 - August 1980: Assistant Professor of Marketing and of Transportation
(granted tenure and promoted in 1980)
Graduate School of Management and Transportation Center
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Teaching Interests

Marketing Management, New Product and Service Development, Competitive Marketing Strategy, Marketing Models, Measurement and Marketing Research, Research Methodology.

 

Research Interests

Virtual customer methods for rapid customer feedback via the web; polyhedral methods, Greedoid methods, and related theory for the analysis of non-compensatory decision making; customer satisfaction measurement and incentive systems; quality function deployment and customer driven engineering; market measurement, especially voice of the customer; marketing strategy, especially positioning, pricing, and advertising strategy; consumer behavior including information search, agendas, and market structure; prelaunch forecasting and information acceleration for new products; and design and marketing of new products and services, hierarchical Bayes methods for continuous-time Markov processes, website morphing, logical analysis of data, cognitive complexity.

 

Texts

Urban, G. L. and J. R. Hauser, Design and Marketing of New Products, Prentice-Hall, Second Edition 1993.

A comprehensive text that integrates advanced, state-of-the-art techniques to provide graduate-level students and marketing professionals with an understanding of the techniques and an operating ability to design, test, and implement new products and services.

This text has been honored by being selected for both the Prentice-Hall International Series in Management and the Series in Marketing.  It has been adopted at a number of major universities.  In a 1988 survey it was identified as the most widely used new product textbook at the graduate level. 

The revision includes new material on designing for quality, reduced cycle times, prelaunch forecasting, quality improvement, defensive and competitive strategy, value mapping, the integration of marketing and engineering, new issues of organization, customer satisfaction, and new international examples.  It is available in Korean and is being translated into Japanese and Chinese.

Urban, G. L., J. R. Hauser, and N. Dholakia, Essentials of New Product Management, Prentice Hall, 1986.

This is an undergraduate textbook which presents the essential concepts but written for a non-technical audience.  It has been translated to Japanese and has sold well in Japan.

Hauser, J. R., Applying Marketing Management: Four Simulations, Scientific Press, 1986.

This mini-text and software package contains four tutorial exercises for marketing management concepts.  With this package students learn positioning, competitive strategy, new product development, and life cycle forecasting while using the personal computer to simulate marketing management problems.  A detailed instructor's manual and transparency masters are also available.  It is available in Japanese.

Hauser, J. R., ENTERPRISE: An Integrating Management Exercise, Scientific Press, 1989.

This mini-text and software package contains a comprehensive competitive simulation.  Students compete in six markets by making marketing and production decisions.  A detailed instructor's manual and administrative software is also available.  It is available in Japanese.

 

Journal Editor

Marketing Science, Editor-in-Chief for volumes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 (1989-1994). Four issues per year including periodic editorials and journal management. Processed about 120 new papers per year.

 

Journal Publications

Hauser, John R., Glen L. Urban, Guilherme Liberali, and Michael Braun (2008), “Website Morphing,” forthcoming Marketing Science.

Toubia, Olivier, John R. Hauser and Rosanna Garcia (2007), “Probabilistic Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis: Theory and Application,” Marketing Science, 26, 5, (September-October), 596-610.

    Co-winner, American Marketing Association, John Howard Dissertation Award, 2005

Yee, Michael, Ely Dahan, John Hauser, and James Orlin (2006), “Greedoid-Based Non-compensatory Two-Stage Consideration then-Choice Inference,” forthcoming, Marketing Science .

    First Place , American Marketing Association Explor Award, 2004

Toubia, Olivier and John R. Hauser (2007), “On Managerial Efficient Designs,” Marketing Science , 26, 6, (November-December), 851-858.

Garcia, Rosanna, Paul Rummel, and John R. Hauser (2007), “Validating Agent-Based Marketing Models Using Conjoint-Analysis,” Journal of Business Research , 60, 8, (August), 848-857.

Hauser, John R., Gerald Tellis, and Abbie Griffin (2006), “Research on Innovation: A Review and Agenda for Marketing Science,” Marketing Science , 25, 6, (November-December), 687-717.

Garcia, Rosanna, Paul Rummel, and John R. Hauser (2006), “Validating Agent-Based Marketing Models Using Conjoint-Analysis,” forthcoming, Journal of Business Research .

Toubia, Olivier and John R. Hauser (2006), “On Managerial Efficient Designs,” forthcoming, Marketing Science .

Hauser, John R. and Olivier Toubia (2005), “The Impact of Utility Balance and Endogeneity in Conjoint Analysis,” Marketing Science , 24, 3, (Summer), 498-507.

Glen L. Urban and John R. Hauser (2004), “'Listening-In' to Find and Explore New Combinations of Customer Needs,” Journal of Marketing , 68, (April), 72-87.

Toubia, Olivier, John R. Hauser, and Duncan Simester (2004), “Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-based Conjoint Analysis,” Journal of Marketing Research , 41, 1, (February), 116-131. 

    Finalist, Paul Green Award for contributions to the practice of marketing research.

Toubia, Olivier, Duncan I. Simester, John R. Hauser, and Ely Dahan (2003), “Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation,” Marketing Science , 22, 3, (Summer), 273-303. 

    First Place , John D. C. Little Award for Best Article in the Marketing Sciences Literature, 2003

    First Place , Frank M. Bass Award for Best Article Based on a Dissertation, 2005.

Dahan, Ely and John R. Hauser (2002), “The Virtual Customer,” Journal of Product Innovation Management , 19, 5, (September), 332-354.

    Finalist, PDMA Best Paper Award in 2003. 

Hauser, John R. (2001), "Metrics Thermostat," Journal of Product Innovation Management , 18, (May), 18, 3. (May), 134-153.

    Finalist PDMA Best Paper Award in 2002.

    Cited by the PDMA in 2007 as one of the top articles in the last twenty years in educational citations.

Simester, Duncan I, John R. Hauser, Birger Wernerfelt, and Roland Rust (2000), "Implementing Quality Improvement Programs Designed to Enhance Customer Satisfaction: Quasi-experiments in the United States and Spain ," Journal of Marketing Research , 37, 1, (February), 102-112.

Hauser, John R. (1998), "Research, Development, and Engineering Metrics." Management Science , 44, 12, December, 1670-1689.

Hauser, John R. and Gerry Katz (1998), “Metrics: You Are What You Measure!.” European Management Journal , 16, 5, (October), 516-528. Highlighted in “A Round-up of Important Articles from Business Periodicals,” in Mastering Management Review published by the Financial Times .

Hauser, John R., Duncan I. Simester, and Birger Wernerfelt (1997), "Side Payments in Marketing," Marketing Science , 16, 3, 246-255.

     Finalist, John D. C. Little Award for Best Article in the Marketing Sciences Literature, 1997.

Urban, Glen L., John R. Hauser, William J. Qualls, Bruce D. Weinberg, Jonathan D. Bohlmann and Roberta A. Chicos (1997), "Validation and Lessons from the Field: Applications of Information Acceleration," Journal of Marketing Research , 34, 1, (February), 143-153.

Hauser, John R. and Florian Zettelmeyer (1997), “Metrics to Evaluate R,D&E,” Research Technology Management , 40, 4, (July-August), 32-38.

Griffin , Abbie, and John R. Hauser (1996), "Integrating Mechanisms for Marketing and R&D," Journal of Product Innovation Management , 13, 3, (May), 191-215.

    One of ten most-cited papers in the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM 24, 3, 2007, p.209)

Hauser, John R., Duncan I. Simester, and Birger Wernerfelt (1996), "Internal Customers and Internal Suppliers," Journal of Marketing Research, 33, 3, (August), 268-280.

Urban, Glen L., Bruce Weinberg and John R. Hauser (1996), "Premarket Forecasting of Really-New Products," Journal of Marketing, 60,1, (January), 47-60. Abstracted in the Journal of Financial Abstracts, 2, 23A, (June) 1995.

    1996 MSI Award for the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing.

Hauser, John R., Duncan I. Simester, and Birger Wernerfelt (1994), "Customer Satisfaction Incentives," Marketing Science , 13, 4, (Fall), 327-350.

    Finalist, John D. C. Little Award for Best Article in the Marketing Sciences Literature, 1994.

Hauser, John R., Glen L. Urban, and Bruce Weinberg (1993), "How Consumers Allocate their Time When Searching for Information," Journal of Marketing Research, 30, 4, (November), 452-466.

Hauser, John R. (1993), "How Puritan Bennett Used the House of Quality," Sloan Management Review , 34, 3, (Spring), 61-70. Reprinted in Taiwan Philips News (in Chinese), 23, 1, (Feb), 1994.

Griffin , Abbie and John R. Hauser (1993), "The Voice of the Customer," Marketing Science , vol. 12, No. 1, (Winter), 1-27.

    First-place, John D. C. Little Award for Best Article in Marketing Sciences Literature, 1993.

    First Place , Frank M. Bass Award for Best Article Based on a Dissertation, 1995.

    Cited in 2007 by the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science as one “of the top 20 marketing science articles in the past 25 years.

Griffin , Abbie and John R. Hauser (1992), "Patterns of Communication Among Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing -- A Comparison between Two New Product Teams," Management Science , vol. 38, No. 3, (March), 360-373.

Urban, Glen. L., John. R. Hauser, and John. H. Roberts (1990), "Prelaunch Forecasting of New Automobiles: Models and Implementation," Management Science , Vol. 36, No. 4, (April), 401-421. Reprinted in Modeling for Management, Vol. 1 , George P. Richardson, ed., Dartmouth Publishing Co., Hampshire England.

    INFORMS (TIMS) Finalist, Best Article in Marketing Science Literature, 1990.

Hauser, John R. and Birger Wernerfelt (1990), "An Evaluation Cost Model of Consideration Sets," Journal of Consumer Research , Vol. 16, (March), 393-408.

Hauser, John R. and Birger Wernerfelt (1989), "The Competitive Implications of Relevant-Set/Response Analysis," Journal of Marketing Research , Vol. 26, No. 4, (November), 391-405.

Hauser, John R. and Don Clausing (1988), "The House of Quality," Harvard Business Review , Vol. No. 3, (May-June), 63-73. Reprinted in The Product Development Challenge , Kim B. Clark and Steven C. Wheelwright, eds., Harvard Business Review Book, Boston MA 1995. Reprinted in IEEE Engineering Management Review , 24, 1, Spring 1996. Translated into German and published in Hermann Simon and Christian Homburg (1998), Kunderzufriedenheit , (Druck and Buchbinder, Hubert & Co.: Gottingen, Germany).

Fader, Peter and John R. Hauser (1988), "Implicit Coalitions in a Generalized Prisoner's Dilemma," Journal of Conflict Resolution , Vol. 32, No. 3, (September), 553-582.

Hauser, John R. (1988), "Competitive Price and Positioning Strategies," Marketing Science , vol. 7, No. 1, (Winter), 76-91.

Hauser, John R. (1986), "Agendas and Consumer Choice," Journal of Marketing Research , Vol. 2,3, No. 2, (August), 199-212. (Includes unpublished appendix containing "Proofs of Theorems and Other Results." ) Reprinted in Gregory S. Carpenter, Rashi Glazer, and Kent Nakamota (1997), Readings on Market-Driving Strategies, Towards a New Theory of Competitive Advantage, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Longman ,Inc.)

    Finalist, 1991 American Marketing Associations O'dell Award for Best Paper in JMR (5-year lag)

Hauser, John R. and Glen L. Urban (1986), "Value Priority Hypotheses for Consumer Budget Plans," Journal of Consumer Research , Vol. 12, No. 4, (March), 446-462.

Eliashberg, Jehoshua and John R. Hauser (1985), "A Measurement Error Approach for Modeling Consumer Risk Preference," Management Science , Vol. 31, No. 1, (January), 1-25.

Hauser, John R., and Steven P. Gaskin (1984), "Application of the `DEFENDER' Consumer Model," Marketing Science , Vol. 3, No. 4, (Fall), 327-351. Reprinted (in French) in Recherche et Applications on Marketing , Vol. 1, April 1986, pp. 59-92.

Urban, Glen L., P. L. Johnson and John R. Hauser (1984), "Testing Competitive Market Structures," Marketing Science , Vol. 3, No. 2, (Spring), 83-112.

    INFORMS (TIMS) Finalist, Best Article in Marketing Science Literature, 1984.

Hauser, John R. (1984), "Consumer Research to Focus R&D Projects" Journal of Product Innovation Management , Vol. 1, No. 2, (January), 70.84.

Hauser, John R., and Steven M. Shugan (1983), "Defensive Marketing Strategy," Marketing Science , Vol. 2, No. 4, (Fall), 319-360.

    INFORMS (TIMS) Best Article in Marketing Science Literature, 1983.

    Cited in 2007 by the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science as one “of the top 20 marketing science articles in the past 25 years.

Republished in 2008 as one of eight “classic” articles in Marketing Science .

Hauser, John R., and Kenneth J. Wisniewski (1982), "Application Predictive Test, and Strategy Implications of a Dynamic Model of Consumer Response," Marketing Science , Vol. 1, No. 2, (Spring), 143-179.

Hauser, John R., and Kenneth J. Wisniewski (1982), "Dynamic Analysis of Consumer Response to Marketing Strategies," Management Science , Vol. 28, No. 5, (May), 455-486.

    INFORMS (TIMS) Best Article in Marketing Science Literature, 1982.

Tybout, Alice M. and John R. Hauser (1981), "A Marketing Audit Using a Conceptual Model of Consumer Behavior: Application and Evaluation," Journal of Marketing , Vol. 45, No. 3, (Summer), 81-101.

Hauser, John R., and Patricia Simmie (1981), "Profit Maximizing Perceptual Positions: An Integrated Theory for the Selection of Product Features and Price," Management Science , Vol. 27, No. 2, (January), 33-56.

Hauser, John R., Frank S. Koppelman and Alice M. Tybout (1981), "Consumer-Oriented Transportation Service Planning: "Consumer Analysis and Strategies," Applications of Management Science , Vol. 1, 91-138.

Hauser, John R., and Steven M. Shugan (1980), "Intensity Measures of Consumer Preference," Operation Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, (March-April), 278-320.

Hauser, John R., and Frank S. Koppelman (1979), "Alternative Perceptual Mapping Techniques: Relative Accuracy and Usefulness, Journal of Marketing Research , Vol. 16, No. 4, (November), 495-506.

Hauser, John R., and Glen L. Urban (1979), "Assessment of Attribute Importances and Consumer Utility Functions: von Neumann-Morgenstern Theory Applied to Consumer Behavior," Journal of Consumer Research , Vol. 5, (March), 251-262.

Koppelman, Frank S. and John R. Hauser (1979), "Destination Choice Behavior for Non-Grocery Shopping Trips," Transportation Research Record , No. 673, 157-165.

Hauser, John R. (1978), "Consumer Preference Axioms: Behavioral Postulates for Describing and Predicting Stochastic Choice," Management Science , Vol. 24, No. 13, (September), 1331-1341.

Hauser, John R. (1978), "Testing the Accuracy, Usefulness and Significance of Probabilistic Models: An Information Theoretic Approach," Operations Research , Vol. 26, No. 3, (May-June), 406-421.

Hauser, John R. and Glen L. Urban (1977), "A Normative Methodology for Modeling Consumer Response to Innovation," Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 4. (July-August), 579-619.

 

Published Notes and Commentaries

Hauser, John R. and Steven M. Shugan (2007), “Comments on ‘Defensive Marketing Strategy,'” Marketing Science , 27, 1, (January-February), 85-87.

Rangaswamy, Arvind , Jim Cochran, Tülin Erdem, John R. Hauser, and Robert J. Meyer (2007), “Editor-in-Chief Search Committee Report: The Digital Future is Here,” Marketing Science , 27, 1, (January-February), 1-3.

Hauser, John R. (2006), “Twenty-Five Years of Eclectic Growth in Marketing Science,” Marketing Science (invited commentary), 25, 6, (November-December), 557-558.

Hauser, John R., Greg Allenby, Frederic H. Murphy, Jagmohan Raju, Richard Staelin, and Joel Steckel (2005), “Marketing Science – Growth and Evolution,” Marketing Science, 24, 1, (Winter), 1-2, invited editorial.

Hauser, John R., Scott Carr, Barbara Kahn, James Hess, and Richard Staelin (2002), "Marketing Science: A Strong Franchise with a Bright Future," Marketing Science, 21, 1, (Winter), invited editorial.

Hauser, John R. and Birger Wernerfelt (1988), "Existence and Uniqueness of Price Equilibria in Defender," Marketing Science, Vol. 7, No. 1, (Winter), 92-93.

Hauser, John R. (1984), "Price Theory and the Role of Marketing Science," Journal of Business, Vol. 57, No. 1, (January), S65-S72.

Hauser, John R. (1980), "Comments on 'Econometric Models of Probabilistic Choice Among Products'," Journal of Business, Vol. 53, No. 3, Part 2, (July 1980), S31-S34.

 

Papers in Edited Volumes and/or Proceedings

Gaskin, Steven, Theodoros Evgeniou, Daniel Bailiff, John Hauser (2007), “Two-Stage Models: Identifying Non-Compensatory Heuristics for the Consideration Set then Adaptive Polyhedral Methods Within the Consideration Set,” Proceedings of the Sawtooth Software Conference in Santa Rosa, CA, October 17-19, 2007.

Hauser, John R. and Ely Dahan (2007), “New Product Development,” in Rajiv Grover, Ed., Essential Marketing Knowledge ... And Wisdom, (Columbus, OH: McGraw Hill, Inc.), forthcoming.

Toubia, Olivier, Theodoros Evgeniou, and John Hauser (2007), “Optimization-Based and Machine-Learning Methods for Conjoint Analysis: Estimation and Question Design,” in Anders Gustafsson, Andreas Herrmann and Frank Huber, Eds, Conjoint Measurement: Methods and Applications, 4E, (New York, NY: Springer), forthcoming.

Hauser, John R., Ely Dahan, Michael Yee, and James Orlin (2006), ““Must Have” Aspects vs. Tradeoff Aspects in Models of Customer Decisions,” Proceedings of the Sawtooth Software Conference in Del Ray Beach, FL, March 29-31, 2006

Best Paper at the Sawtooth Software Conference, 2006.


Hauser, John R. and Vithala Rao (2004), “Conjoint Analysis, Related Modeling, and Applications,” Advances in Market Research and Modeling: Progress and Prospects, Jerry Wind and Paul Green, Eds., (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 141-168.

Dahan, Ely and John R. Hauser (2003), "Product Management: New Product Development and Launching," Handbook of Marketing, Barton Weitz and Robin Wensley, Eds, Sage Press, (June), 179-222.

Hauser, John R. (1997), "The Role of Mathematical Models in the Study of Product Development," Proceedings of the 14th Paul D. Converse Awards Conference, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 72-90.

Swanson, Derby A. and John R. Hauser (1995), "The Voice of the Customer: How Can You Be Sure You Know What Customers Really Want?," Proceedings of the 1st Pacific Rim Symposium of Quality Function Deployment, MacQuarie University, NSW Australia, February 15-17.

Little, John D. C., Leonard M. Lodish, John R. Hauser, and Glen L. Urban (1993), "Comment on `Marketing Science's Pilgrimage to the Ivory Tower' by Hermann Simon," in Research Traditions in Marketing, Gary L. Lilien, Bernard Pras, and Gilles Laurent, eds, (Kluwer), 45-51.

Hauser, John R. (1986), "Theory and Application of Defensive Strategy" in The Economics of Strategic Planning, Lacy G. Thomas, ed., (Lexington Books, D. C. Heath & Co.: Lexington, MA), 113-140. Reprinted by the Marketing Science Institute.

Hauser, John R. (1985), "The Coming revolution in Marketing Theory," in R. Russell, ed., Marketing in an Electronic Age, (Harvard Business School Press: Boston, MA), 344-363.

Hauser, John R. and Glen L. Urban (1984), "Consumer Durables: Actual Budgets Compared to Value Priority Model - Preliminary Results and Managerial Implications," Proceedings of the ESOMAR-Congress, Rome, Italy, (September). (Awarded Best Paper at Conference).

Hauser, John R., John H. Roberts and Glen L. Urban (1983), "Forecasting Sales of a New Consumer Durable: A Prelaunch Modeling and Measurement Methodology," Advances and Practices of Marketing Science, Fred S. Zufryden, ed., (The Institute of Management Science: Providence, RI), 115-128.

Hauser, John R., and Glen L. Urban (1982), "Prelaunch Forecasting of New Consumer Durables: Ideas on a Consumer Value-Priority Model," in A. D. Shocker and R. Srivastava, eds., Analytic Approaches to Product and Market Planning, Vol. 2, (Marketing Science Institute: Cambridge Massachusetts), 276-296.

Hauser, John R. (1982), "Comments on 'A Survey of Experimental Market Mechanisms for Classical Environments'," Research in Marketing, Supplement 1: Choice Models for Buyer Behavior, L. McAlister, ed., (JAI Press: Greenwich, CT), Spring, 49-56.

Hauser, John R. (1981), "Comments on 'Violations of Regularity and the Similarity Hypothesis by Adding Asymmetrically Dominated Alternatives to the Choice Set'," Proceedings of the Special Conference on Choice Theory, Joel Huber, ed., (Duke University: Durham, NC), June.

Hauser, John R., and Frank S. Koppelman (1979), "An Empirical Comparison of Techniques to Model Consumer Perceptions and Preferences," in A. D. Shocker, ed., Analytic Approaches to Product and Marketing Planning, (Marketing Science Institute: Cambridge, Massachusetts), 216-238.

Tybout, Alice M., John R. Hauser, and Frank S. Koppelman (1977), "Consumer-Oriented Transportation Planning: An Integrated Methodology for Modeling Consumer Perceptions, Preferences and Behavior," Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 5, (Chicago, Illinois), October.

Hauser, John R. and Steven M. Shugan (1977), "Extended Conjoint Analysis with Intensity Measures and Computer Assisted Interviews: Applications to Telecommunications and Travel, " Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 5, (Chicago, Illinois), October.

Hauser, John R. and Frank S. Koppelman (1977), "Designing Transportation Services: A Marketing Approach." Proceedings of the Transportation Research Forum, (Atlanta, GA), October, 638-652.

Hauser, John R. and Peter R. Stopher (1976), "Choosing an Objective Function Based on Modeling Consumer Perceptions and Preferences," Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, (Washington, D.C.), November, 26-31.

 

Magazine Articles

Hauser, John R. (2002), "Marketing Makes a Difference," Marketing Management, (January/February), 11, 1, 46-47.

Hauser, John R. (2000), "Going Overboard on Platforms," AMS Voices, 8.

Hauser, John R. (1997), "The Problem with Pinball," AMS Voices, 4.

Hauser, John R. (1996), "You Are What You Measure," AMS Voices, 1.

Hauser, John R. (1995), "Internal Customers," Insight, 4, 1.

Hauser, John R. (1994), "Quality Function Deployment," Marketing Encyclopedia for the Year 2000, Jeffrey Heilbrunn, ed., American Marketing Association, Chicago, IL, 60606.

Hauser, John R. (1993), "Are Customer-Satisfaction Programs Profitable?, Insight, 3.

Hauser, John R. (1988), "Customer Driven Engineering," Design News, (July 18), p. 50.

Hauser, John R. and Robert L. Klein (1988), "Without Good Research, Quality is a Shot in the Dark," Marketing News, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 4. Page 1.

Hauser, John R. (1986), "`Defender' Helps Mature Brands Ward off New Foes," Marketing Educator, 5, 3, (Fall), 5.

 

Submitted Papers and Working Papers

Hauser, John R., Olivier Toubia, Theodoros Evgeniou, Daria Silinskiai, and Rene Befurt (2008), “Cognitive Simplicity and Consideration Sets,” Revise and resubmit, Journal of Marketing Research.

Ding, Min and John R. Hauser (2005), A Truth-telling Guessing Game for Survey Research,” draft working paper, June.

Kim, Jin Gyo and John R. Hauser, "Identifying Subject-Specific Relevant Explanatory Variables in Choice-Based Conjoint Studies," currently under revision for submission to the Journal of Marketing Research.

Toubia, Olivier and John R. Hauser (2005), "Note on Managerial Efficient Designs," (June). Under review, Marketing Science.

Toubia, Oliver, John R. Hauser and Rosanna Garcia (2005), "Generalized Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis: Theory and Application," (June). Under review Journal of Marketing Research.

Co-winner, American Marketing Association, John Howard Dissertation Award, 2005.

Zettelmeyer, Florian and John R. Hauser (1995), "Metrics to Evaluate R&D Groups: Phase I, Qualitative Interviews," Working Paper, International Center for Research on the Management of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02142, (March).

Hauser, John R. (1991), "Comparison of Importance Measurement Methodologies and their Relationship to Consumer Satisfaction," M.I.T. Sloan School of Management Working Paper, Cambridge, MA 02142. January.

Research in Progress

The application of hierarchical Bayes continuous-time Markov-process models to the analysis of field experiments to increase consideration of automobiles. With Glen Urban , Gui Liberali, Michael Braun, and Eric Bradlow.

Matching Website Characteristics to Cognitive Styles: A Field Test, with Glen Urban, Guilherme Liberali, and Michael Braun, and Clarence Lee.

Multiple, Dynamic Website Morphing – Application to Suruga Bank, with Gui Liberali and Glen Urban.

Teaching Agents to Buy (TAB) – self-explicated models of consideration decisions, with Min Ding, Daria Silinskaia, Songting Dong, Zhilin Yang, and Chenting Su.

Agent-based Models of the Diffusion of Wine Closures, with Rosanna Garcia and Olivier Toubia.

Genetic Algorithms for Understanding Consumer Preferences.

Research Reports (not otherwise listed)

Hauser, John R. (1996), "R&D Metrics: An Annotated Bibliography," ICRMOT Working Paper, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02142. (June) Also available as a Marketing Science Institute Working Paper (November).

Hauser, John R. and Greg Cirmak (1987), "Consumer Driven Engineering for the CHEK Automobiles," Information Resources, Inc. Report to General Motors, Inc. Details the results of a major study on consumer perceptions and preferences of luxury automobiles. April.

Hauser, John R. (1983), "Critique of Market Studies for Cellular Radio Telephone:. Affidavits before the FCC evaluating market studies, June and September.

Hauser, John R. (1983), "Forecasts of Demand and Cellular Radio Telephone,: Affidavits before the FCC for five major and nine minor markets. June and April.

Hauser, John R., and J. Bertan (1982), "Auto Show Interviews," Internal Report to Buick Division of General Motors, June.

Hauser, John R., and Kenneth J. Wisniewski (1981), "Monitoring the Implementation of Innovative Transportation Services, Phase I: Final Report," Technical Report to the Urban Mass Transit Administration, Research Grant IL-11-0012, May.

Hauser, John R. and Kenneth J. Wisniewski (1979), "Consumer Analysis for General Travel Destinations," Technical Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, March.

Hauser, John R. and Steven M. Shugan (1978), "Designing and Building a Market Research Information System," Technical Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, February.

Hauser, John R. (1978), "Forecasting and Influencing the Adoption of Technological Innovations," Technical Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, October.

Hauser, John R., Alice M. Tybout and Frank S. Koppelman (1978), "Consumer-Oriented Transportation Services Planning: The Development and Implementation of a Questionnaire to Determine Consumer Wants and Needs," Technical Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, October.

Tybout, Alice M., Frank S. Koppelman and John R. Hauser (1977), "Consumer Views of Transportation in Evanston: A Report Based on Focus Group Interviews," Technical Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, June.

Koppelman, Frank S., John R. Hauser and Alice M. Tybout (1977), "Preliminary Analysis of Perceptions, Preferences, Beliefs and Usage of Transportation Services for Travel to Downtown Evanston," Technical, Report, Transportation Center, Northwestern University, May.

Hauser, John R. (1977), "Results of the Focus Group Interviews for Shared Ride Auto Transit," Cambridge Systematics Consultant's Report, May.

Hauser, John R. (1976), "Report on the Applicability of Attitudinal research for Improving the Effectiveness of Transportation Demand Models," Position Paper commissioned by Cambridge Systematics, Inc., April.

Wilson, Nigel, R. W. Weissberg and John R. Hauser (1976), "Advanced Dial-a-Ride Algorithms--Final Report," M.I.T. Department of Civil Engineering Technical Report, April.

Hauser, John R., et al. (1974), "The Chemung County Transit Survey." Volunteers in Technical Assistance (a division of VISTA) publication for Chemung County, NY, June. (Includes analysis of transportation options based on the results of the survey designed and implemented by the technical team.)

Hauser, John R. (1974), "A Cost Model for RTS (Rochester, NY) Conventional Bus Routes," M.I.T., Department of Civil Engineering Report, January.

Hauser, John R. (1973), "An Efficient Model for Planning Bus Routes in Communities with Populations Between 20,000 and 250,000," M.I.T., Operations Research Center Working Paper OR-029-993, November.

Research Grants

January 2000 – May 2006 Center for Innovation in Product Development, MIT, Initiative Leader, Virtual Customer.
January 2001 – May 2002 eBusiness Center at MIT. Design and Delivery of Online Promotions. (with John Little, Duncan Simester, and Glen Urban).
January 1997 – May 2000 Center for Innovation in Product Development, Engineering Research Center Grant from the National Science Foundation. Research Director. In addition, research grants for non-monetary incentives, procurement metrics, and virtual customer methods.
June 1999 – May 2000 "Metrics Thermostat," International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (Principal Investigator).
June 1999- May 2001 "New Product Metrics at Ford and the US Navy," Center for Innovation in Product Development.
June 1999- May 2001 "Lean Sustainment Metrics at the USAF," Lean Sustainment Initiative at MIT.
June 1994 - May 1999 "Metrics to Value R&D," International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (Principal Investigator). General topic. Detailed proposals were for various aspects of the problem.
June 1991 - May 1994 "Customer Needs, Customer Satisfaction, Sales, and Profit: Providing the Right Incentives to Engineering and R&D," International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (co-Principal Investigator with Birger Wernerfelt).
January 1990 - June 1992 "Information Acceleration and Preproduction Forecasting of New Autos, Phases I and II." General Motors Electric Vehicle Project. (Associate)
December 1988 - June 1990 "Improved Methodologies to Measure Consumer Needs," Procter & Gamble Company. (Principal Investigator)
September 1981 - December 1985 "Prelaunch Forecasting System for New Consumer Durables and Its Applications to Auto Purchases," General Motors, Buick Division (co-Principal Investigator with Glen L. Urban).
January 1981 - May 1981 "Marketing Approaches in Travel Demand," United Parcel Service Grant (Faculty Advisor).
January 1979 - August 1980 "Monitoring the Implementation of Innovative Public Transportation Services" from University Research Program of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (Principal Investigator).
July 1975 - September 1977 "Consumer-Oriented Transportation Service Planning." from the Program of University Research, U.S. Department of Transportation (Faculty Associate).
September 1977 - January 1978 "Consumer-oriented Transportation Service: Modification and Evaluation" from Program of University Research, USDOT (Faculty Associate).
May 1976 - September 1978 "Enhancement of Communications with a Small Scientific Community Using Slow-Scan Televideo Terminals and Voice-Grade Telephone Lines" from the National Science Foundation (Faculty Associate).
January 1976 - December 1976 "A Method for Assessing Pricing and Structural Changes on Transport Mode Use," U.S. Department of Transportation (Faculty Associate).
September 1976 - June 1977 "Prediction of Urban Recreational Demand" from the National Science Foundation (Faculty Consultant).

Invited Lectures (Outside the Sloan School)

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, August 2006, “Greedoid-Based Non-Compensatory Consider-then-Choice Inference.” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2006, “Greedoid-based Non-compensatory Inference.”

Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , April 2006, “Greedoid-based Non-compensatory Inference.”
University of Michigan, Seminar Series, October 2004, “Table Stakes: Non-compensatory Consideration-then-Choice Inference.”

Management Roundtable Special Conference on “Taking the Voice of the Customer to the Next Level,” Boston, MA October 2004, “The Virtual Customer.”

Marketing Science Institute Research Generation Conference, Atlanta, GA, May, 2004, "New Products/Innovation," (with Gerry Tellis).

Marketing Science Institute Conference on Emerging Approaches for Successful Innovation, Chicago, IL, May 2003,"'Listening-In' to Find Unmet Customer Needs and Solutions."

University of California at Los Angeles, "Polyhedral CBC (and other fun Stuff)," February 2003

New York University, "Polyhedral Methods," March 2003.

Industrial Liaison Program - Research Directors' Conference, April 2002, "The Virtual Customer."

University of Maryland, "Polyhedral Methods for Conjoint Analysis," March 2002.

Marketing Science Institute Trustees Meeting on Marketing Outside the Silo, Boston, MA, April 2002, "Challenges and Visions for Marketing's Role in Product Development Processes."

Managing Corporate Innovation -- ILP Symposium celebrating ten years of Management of Technology Research at MIT. "Dealing with the Virtual Customer: Fast Web-based Customer Input." April 2001

Epoch Foundation, Cambridge, MA, October 2000, "The Virtual Customer."

Yale University Research Seminar in Marketing, New Haven, CN, March 2000, "Metrics Thermostat."

Analysis Group Economics Seminar, Boston, MA, December 1999, "The Use of Marketing Research in Litigation." Also New York, NY, March 2000 and Washington, D.C., March, 2002.

Boston Chapter of the Society for Concurrent Engineering, Waltham, MA, October 1999, "Metrics Thermostat."

University of Michigan DuPont Distinguished Speakers’ Series, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1998, "New Product Metrics."

Kirin Brewery Co. Limited, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 1998, "You Are What You Measure!" and "Scientific Studies of the Voice of the Customer."

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JAPA, December 1998, "Scientific Studies of the Voice of the Customer."

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, February 1997, "Research, Development, and Engineering Metrics"

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, December 1996, "Metrics to Value R,D&E"

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, February 1997, "Research, Development, and Engineering Metrics"

Duke University, Durham, NC, "Internal Customers and Internal Suppliers," Nov. 1995.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Voice of the Customer," "Internal Customers and Captive Suppliers," May 1995.

Winter Retreat, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, "Internal Customers and Captive Suppliers," December 1993.

Product Development Association - Boston, "Design and Marketing of New Products II: Advances in Product Development Management over the Last 13 Years," May 1993.

3M, Minneapolis, MN, "Incentives to Encourage a Long-term Perspective and a Customer Focus," Workshop on "Towards a World-class Research, Development, and Engineering Organization," November 1992.

Baxter Health Care, Orange County, CA, "The Voice of the Customer," August 1992.

TIMS College on the Practice of Management Science (New Directions in Management Science), Cambridge, MA: "The Voice of the Customer," October 1991.

IBM, Inc., Boca Raton, FL: "Voice of the Customer for Performance Graphics," May 1991.

Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd. Tokyo, JAPAN: "New Product Development" and "Customer Satisfaction and Customer Needs," April 1991.

American Iron and Steel Institute, Detroit, MI: "Satisfying the Customer -- Technical Issues," February 1991.

Warner Lambert, Inc., Mountain Laurel, PA: "Communication Among R&D and Marketing," October 1990.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA: "Voice of the Customer," May 1990.

Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association, Inc.: 31st Research Planning Conference, Boston, MA, "The House of Quality." June 1989.

University of Illinois: "Customer Driven Engineering." April, 1988.

Marketing Science Institute and IBM Thornwood Educational Facility: Quality through Customer Driven Engineering." April, 198." April, 1988.

Marketing Science Institute and IBM Thornwood Educational Facility: Quality through Customer Driven Engineering." April, 1988.

Harvard Business School: "Customer Driven Engineering: Integrating Marketing and Engineering." February, 1988.

Vanderbilt University: "Competitive Price and Advertising Strategies" and "Customer Driven Engineering." October, 1988.

Columbia University: "Price, Positioning, and Advertising Games: To Equilibrate of Not, Does it Pay to be Smart?" May, 1987.

New York Marketing Modelers' Club: "Would You Really Rather Have a Buick?: Prelaunch Forecasting of New Automobiles," May 1987.

M.I.T. Applied Economics: "Competitive Product Selection and Advertising Models." April, 1987.

Northwestern University: "Agendas and Consumer Choice," August, 1986.

AMA Faculty Consortium on Marketing Strategy at the University Tennessee, Knoxville. "Defender: Analyses for Competitive Strategy," July, 1986.

Ohio State University: "Defensive and Competitive Strategy." May, 1986.

Boston University: "Research in Competitive Strategy." November, 1985.

Midwest Electronics Association, Minneapolis, MN: "New Products for High-Tech Firms." October, 1985.

University of Pennsylvania: "Agendas and Consumer Choice," August, 1985.

Herstein Institute, Vienna Austria: "Competitive Strategy," May, 1985.

Cadbury-Schweppes, Birmingham, England: "New Product Development and Defensive Strategy." May, 1985.

Rhone-Poulenc and Aluminum Pechiney, Paris, France: "New Product Development." April, 1985.

University of Michigan: "Defensive and Competitive Strategy." February, 1985.

Marketing Science Institute Special Mini-Conference: "Defensive Marketing Strategies for Consumer Firms." September 1983.

University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL. "Agendas and Consumer Choice," May 1984.

European Institute for Business Administration (INSEAD), Fontainebleau, FRANCE. "Agendas and Consumer Choice," June 1984.

University of Connecticut. "Defensive Marketing: Theory, Measurement, and Models," April, 1983.

University of Osaka, JAPAN "Defensive Marketing: Theory, Measurement, and Models," August, 1983.

Kao Soap, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN: "Defensive Marketing," August, 1983.

Johnson & Johnson, K. K., Tokyo, JAPAN: "Defensive Marketing," August, 1983.

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA. "New Product Development," May, 1982.

University of Rochester Research Seminar, "Prelaunch Forecasting of New Consumer Durables," April 1982.

Frito-Lay R & D Laboratory, Dallas, TX, "Marketing and R & D for New Products," October 1981.

University of California at Los Angels Research Seminar, "Defensive Marketing Strategies," July, 1981.

Purdue University Research Seminar, "Product Realization," October 1979.

Stanford University Research Seminar, "Product Realization," October 1979.

Elrick and Lavidge, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, "Product Realization," October 1979.

Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, "New Service Planning for Hospitals," April 1979.

Cornell University Research Seminar, "Intensity Measures of Consumer Preference," February 1979.

University of Rochester Research Seminar, "Product Realization: Synthesis of Marketing and Economic Theory," December 1978.

Region VI Center of Health Planning, New Orleans, LA, "Finding the Linkage Through Marketing,: August 1978.

Nebraska Hospital Association, Kearney, NE, "Hospital Marketing Surveys," May 1978.

Executive Development Group, Waterloo Management Education Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "Designing New Industrial Products," February 1978.

Academic Update, Xavier University Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration, Cincinnati, OH, "Designing Hospital Services: A Marketing Approach," October 1977.

The Hospital Marketing Workshop, Ireland Educational Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, "Analyzing the Hospital Markets," January 1977 and May 1977.

Association for College Unions - International, 1976 Fall Conference in Green Bay, WI, Keynote Speech - "Designing Successful Services: A Marketing Approach," October 1976.

University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Research Seminar, "Testing Probabilistic Models," April 1976.

Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Conference on Marketing Alumni Program, New York, NY, Keynote Speech, February 1976.

Presentations at Professional Meetings ( No published proceedings, some co-presented or presented by co-author[s])

INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008, “Modeling Cognitive Complexity to Predict Consideration Sets,” with Daria Silinskaia, Theodoros Evgeniou, Olivier Toubia, and Rene Befurt.

INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008, Cognitive Styles and Website Design,” with Michael Braun, Glen L. Urban, and Clarence Lee.

INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008, “Morphing Websites to Match Individual Cognitive Styles,” with Michael Braun, Glen L. Urban, and Guilherme Liberali

AMA Doctoral Consortium, Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri, June 2007, “Looking Ahead: Directions for Scholarly Research in Marketing” and “Building Teaching Effectiveness: Stimulating Student Interest.”

Sawtooth Software Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, October 2007, “Two-Stage Models: Identifying Non-Compensatory Heuristics for the Consideration Set then Adaptive Polyhedral Methods Within the Consideration Set,” with Steven Gaskin, Theodoros Evgeniou, Daniel Bailiff.

AMA Advance Research Technologies Forum, Sante Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, “Two-Stage Models: Identifying Non-Compensatory Heuristics for the Consideration Set then Adaptive Polyhedral Methods Within the Consideration Set,” with Steven Gaskin, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Daniel Bailiff.

AMA Doctoral Consortium, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, May 2007, “Consideration
The New Battlefield in Product Development.”

Agent-based Models of Market Dynamics and Consumer Behaviour, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, January 2006, “Co-opetition for the Diffusion of Resistant Innovations: A Case Study in the Global Wine Industry using an Agent-based Model.” with Rosanna Garcia.  Also  presented at the American Marketing Association’s Advanced Research Techniques (ART) Forum in June 2006 at Monterrey CA.

AMA Doctoral Consortium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2005, "The Virtual Consumer."

Marketing Science Conference, Emory, Atlanta, GA, June 2005, “Non-Deterministic Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis: Application to the Diffusion of the New Wine Cork,” with Olivier Toubia and Rosanna Garcia.

Marketing Science Conference, Emory, Atlanta, GA, June 2005, “Greedoid-Based Non-compensatory Two-Stage Consideration-then-Choice Inference,” with Michael Yee, Jim Orlin, and Ely Dahan.

Marketing Science Conference, Emory, Atlanta, GA, June 2005, “Clickstream Analysis of Web-Based Adaptive Experimentation with Dynamic Heterogeneous Markov Models,” with Glen Urban, Mahesh Kumar, Dmitriy Rogozhnikov, Tom Stoker, and Fareena Sultan.

AMA Doctoral Consortium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, June 2004, "Virtual Customer Initiative."

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004, "Research That Has Impact."

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004, "Improving Choice-Based Polyhedral Methods by Taking Response Error into Account," with Olivier Toubia.

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004, "The Dream Versus Reality of CRM," with Glen Urban, Eric Bradlow, and Mahesh Kumar.

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004, "Non-Compensatory Consideration-then-Choice Adaptive Conjoint Analysis," with Michael Yee and James Orlin.

AMA Doctoral Consortium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, June 2003, "The Review Process."

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, University of Maryland, June 2003, "Roots of Marketing Science Thought," with John Little.

Marketing Science Conference, University of Maryland, June 12-15, 2003, "Individual-level Adaptation of Choice-Based Conjoint Questions: More Efficient Questions and More Accurate Estimation," (with Olivier Toubia and Duncan Simester).

Marketing Science Conference, University of Alberta, Canada, June 28, 2003, "Configurators, Utility Balance, and Managerial Use," (with Duncan Simester and Olivier Toubia).

Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium, University of Alberta, Canada, June 27, 2002, "Helping Managers Structure and Make Decisions," (Founding Consortium).

Marketing Science Conference, University of Alberta, Canada, June 28, 2003, "Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis with Polyhedral Methods," (with Duncan Simester and Olivier Toubia*).

Advances in Marketing Research and Modeling: The Academic and Industry Impact of Paul E. Green, Wharton, Philadelphia, PA, May 2002, "New Methods of Data Collection and Estimation Using Polyhedral Estimation Techniques."

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Conference 2002 - High Tech POM, San Francisco, CA, April 2002, "The Virtual Customer," (with Ely Dahan*).

Product Development Association (PDMA) International Research Conference, Santa Clara, CA, October 2001, "The Virtual Customer," (with Ely Dahan*).

New England Marketing Conference, Cambridge, MA, September 2002, "Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation," (with Ely Dahan, Duncan Simester, and Olivier Toubia).

Marketing Science Conference, Wiesbaden, Germany, July 2001, "Empirical Test of Web-based Conjoint Analysis Including ACA, Efficient Fixed Designs, Polyhedral Methods, and Hybrid Methods," (with Ely Dahan, Duncan Simester, and Olivier Toubia*)

Marketing Science Conference, Wiesbaden, Germany, July 2001, "Evaluation of Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation," (with Duncan Simester and Olivier Toubia).

The 12th Annual Advanced Research Techniques Forum, Amelia Island, Florida, June 2001, "The Virtual Customer: Communication, Conceptualization, and Computation," (with Ely Dahan*).

AMA Doctoral Consortium, University of Miami, June 2001, "Role of Technology in Marketing."

Marketing Science Conference, UCLA, June 2000, "Applications of the Metrics Thermostat."

Marketing Science Conference, UCLA, June 2000, "The Virtual Customer." (with Ely Dahan and Duncan Simester).

Marketing Science Institute Marketing Metrics Workshop, Washington, D.C. October 1999, "Metrics for New Product Development: Making Agency Theory Practical," Plenary Speaker.

Marketing Science Conference, Syracuse, NY, May 1999, "Balancing Customer Input, Speed to Market, and Reduced Cost in New Product Development: What is the Most Profitable Strategy"

ICRMOT Conference on Technology Alliances and New Product Development: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Mishima, JAPAN, December 1998, "You Are What You Measure!"

AMA Doctoral Consortium, Athens, Georgia, August 1998, "Quantitative Advances in Marketing Models."

AMA Winter Educators’ Conference, Austin, TX, February 1998 (Plenary Speaker), "New Challenges in the Marketing-Product Development Interface."

AMA Doctoral Consortium, Cincinnati OH, August 1997, "Working with Industry."

Marketing Science Conference, Berkeley CA, March 1997, "Cultivating Technological Managers for Customer Expertise."

Marketing Science Institute Conference on Interfunctional Interfaces: The Management of Corporate Fault Zones, Palo Alto, CA, December 1996, "Multi-Stage Modeling of R&D/Marketing Interfaces in New Product Development."

Marketing Science Conference, Berkeley CA, March 1997, "Cultivating Technological Managers for Customer Expertise."

Envisioning the Future on Internet Marketing: Research and Strategy Implications, M.I.T., September 1996, "Agents and Intermediaries: Roles, Trust, and Value."

"Can R&D be Evaluated on Market-Driven Criteria?," (with Florian Zettelmeyer). Marketing Science Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 1996

"Information Acceleration," (with Glen Urban, William Qualls, Bruce Weinberg, Jon Bohlmann, and Roberta Chicos). Wharton Conference on Innovation in Product Development, Philadelphia, PA, May 1995.

"Metrics by Which Managers Evaluate R&D Groups," (with Florian Zettelmeyer). Association of Consumer Research, Boston, MA, October 1994.

"Satisfying the Internal Customer," (with Birger Wernerfelt and Duncan Simester) Marketing Science Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 1994.

"Customer-Satisfaction Based Incentive Systems," AMA Educator's Conference, Boston, MA, August 1993.

"Marketing in the 1990s: Emerging Issues," AMA Doctoral Consortium, University of Illinois, August 1993.

"Quality Function Deployment and the Voice of the Customer," Pharmaceutical Management Science Association, Phoenix AZ, May 1993.

"In a World of Active Time-constrained Customers, How Can a Firm be the Great Communicator," (with Birger Wernerfelt), Marketing Science Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, March 1993.

"Customer Needs, Customer Satisfaction, Sales, and Profit," (with Birger Wernerfelt, Ronit Bodner, and Duncan Simester), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 1992.

"Customer Satisfaction and Employee Rewards," (with Birger Wernerfelt, Ronit Bodner, and Duncan Semester), Marketing Science Conference, London, England, June 1992.

"Information Acceleration and Preproduction Forecasting of Electric Autos," (with Glen L. Urban and Bruce Weinberg), Marketing Science Conference, London, England, June 1992.

"The Voice of the Customer and Customer Satisfaction," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 1991.

"Modeling Marketing Phenomena," AMA Doctoral Consortium, University of Southern Calif. August 1991.

"Relationship of Satisfaction to Customer Needs and to Market Share," 1st Congress on Customer Satisfaction and Market-Driven Quality, American Marketing Association, Orlando FL, May 1991.

"Time Flies When You're Having Fun: How Consumers Allocate Their Time When Evaluating Products" (with Bruce Weinberg, Glen Urban, and Miguel Villas-Boas), Marketing Science Conference, Wilmington, DL, March 1991.

"Information Acceleration and Preproduction Forecasting of New Autos," (with Glen Urban, and Bruce Weinberg), Marketing Science Conference, Wilmington, DL, March 1991.

"Beyond Quality Function Deployment," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA October 1990. (Conference-wide Tutorial)

"Competitive Marketing Strategies," Operations Research 1990 (Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Operations Research), Vienna, Austria, August 1990. (Invited Speaker)

"New Product Development: A Quantitative Analysis of Interfunctional Communication" (with Abbie Griffin), Marketing Science Conference, Urbana, IL, March 1990.

"Integrated Product Development: New Methodological Developments" (with Abbie Griffin), Marketing Science Conference, Durham, N.C., March 1989.

"Customer Driven Engineering" (with Gregory Cirmak and Robert Klein), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1988.

"Competitive Advertising and Pricing in Duopolies" (with Birger Wernerfelt), Marketing Science Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 1988.

"Customer Driven Engineering" (with Abbie Griffin), Marketing Science Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 1988.

"Customer Needs," Visions of Design Practices for the Future, Newton, MA, October 1987.

"Effective Strategies in Oligopoly" (with Peter Fader), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, November 1986.

"Competitive Strategy Contest: Result and Analysis" (with Peter Fader), Marketing Science Conference, Dallas, TX, March 1986.

"The PC As a Tool to Teach Complex Marketing Science Concepts," Marketing Science Conference, Dallas, TX, March 1986.

"The Coming Revolution in Marketing Theory," Plenary Speaker, European Marketing Conference, Bielefeld, West Germany. April 1985.

"Defensive Strategy" Confer. on Economics of the Firm, Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France, April 1985.

"Competitive Marketing Strategies" Marketing Science Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1985.

"Developing New Product Management: Past Progress, Current Efforts, Current Needs" (Panel) Marketing Science Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1985.

"Testing Competitive Marketing Structures: Theory and Applications" (with Glen Urban) ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Dallas, TX November 1984.

"Competitive Strategy," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Dallas, Texas, November 1984.

"Forecasting Automobile Sales: An Application of a Value Priority Algorithm," (with Glen Urban), John Roberts and John Dabels), TIMS XXVI International Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1984.

"Consumer Durables: The Actual Consumer Budgets Compared to the Value Priority Model," (with Glen Urban), Marketing Science Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 1984.

"Defensive Strategy Models: Application and Predictive Text," (with Steven Gaskin, and Karl Irons) ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 1983.

"New Product Research: Focus on Defensive strategies," Roundtable Program, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Orlando, FL, November 1983.

"Intensity of Preference," (with Steven Shugan) ORSA/TIMS Joint National meeting, San Diego, CA, October 1982.

"Measurement Error Theories for von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Functions," (with Jehoshua Eliashberg) ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 1982.

"Consumer Preference Models: Axioms and Statistics," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 1981.

"Economic Models of Consumer Behavior," (panel discussion), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 1981.

"Defensive Marketing Strategies, Part II," (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 1981.

"Agendas and Choice Probabilities," (with Amos Tversky), Association of Consumer Research, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1981, and Special Conference on Choice Theory, Durham, North Carolina , June 1981.

"Strategic Response to Competitive New Products," (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1981.

"Applications of a Dynamic Semi-Markov Model of Consumer Choice," (with Ken Wisniewski), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 1980.

"Models of Consumer Behavior," (panel discussion), ORSA/TIMS joint National Meetings, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 1980.

"Dynamic Semi-Markov Models of Consumer Behavior," (with Ken Wisniewski) TIMS International Conference on Marketing, Paris, June 1980.

"Profit Maximizing Perceptual Positioning," (with Patricia Simmie) TIMS International Conference on Marketing, Paris, June 1980.

"An Error Theory for von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Assessment," (with Jehoshua Eliashberg), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 1980.

"Defender: Defensive Strategies Against New Products" (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Second Special Interest Conference on Marketing Measurement and Analysis, Austin, Texas, March 1980.

"Adaptive Control of New Product Launches," (with Ken Wisniewski), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1979.

"The Value of Up-front Research in New Products," (with Glen Urban), TIMS International Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1979.

"Methods for Computing Probabilities of Choice," (with Steven Shugan), TIMS International Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1979.

"Forecasting and Improving the Adoption of New High Technology Products," (with Pat Lyon), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1979.

"A Methodology for Product Realization: Multi-method Procedures," (with Patricia Simmie), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, November 1978.

"Searching for Marketing Segments" (with Ken Wisniewski), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, New York, New York, May 1978.

"P.A.R.I.S.: An Interactive Market Research System," (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, New York, New York, May 1978.

"Extended Conjoint Analysis," (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1977.

"Consumer Preference Functions: Theory, Measurement, Estimation , and Application," (with Steven Shugan), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1977.

"Measuring Consumer Preferences for Health Care Plans," (with Glen Urban), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 1977.

"Improved Transportation Design with Consumer Response Models: An AMTRAK Example" (with Frank Koppelman), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Miami, Florida, November 1976.

"A Comparison of Statistical and Direct Multiattribute Utility Assessment Procedures," (with Glen Urban), ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1985.

"Measuring Consumer Preferences: An Axiomization for Describing Choice," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1975.

"Modeling Consumer Response to Innovations," (1) Milwaukee Chapter of ORSA/TIMS, November 1985; (2) Chicago Chapter of ORSA/TIMS, December 1975.

"Modeling Decisions of Choice Among Finite Alternatives: Applications to Marketing and to Transportation Demand Theory," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Juan, Puerto, Rico, October 1974.

"An Efficient Model for Planning Bus Routes in Medium Sized Communities," ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 1973.

Professional Affiliations

The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science

American Marketing Association

Product Development and Management Association, Certified New Product Development Professional

Association for Consumer Research

Professional Services

Secretary, INFORMS Society of Marketing (January 2002 - present). Founding Officer.

Advisory Board, Sloan Management Review (2000- present)

Advisory Council, INFORMS College of Marketing (1994 - present)

Associate Editor for Marketing, Management Science, (1980 - 1981)

Council of The Institute of Management Sciences (1987 - 1989)

Department Editor for Marketing, Management Science, (1982 - 1988)

Editor-in-Chief, Marketing Science, (1989 - 1994)

Editorial Advisory Board, Sloan Management Review (2000-present).

Area Editor, Journal of Marketing Research (April 2006 – present).  First time in journal history that Area Editors have been appointed.

Editorial Boards, Marketing Science, (1980 - 1988), Journal of Product Innovation Management (1997 - present), European Management Journal (1998 - present).

Reviewer: Advances in Consumer Research, Applications in Management Science, European Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management Science, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Review of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, Transportation Research Record, Transportation Science, AMA Dissertation Prize, AMA Educators' Conference, American Institute of Decision Sciences Dissertation Prize, Nicholson Dissertation Prize, Marketing Science Institute Dissertation Award, Product Development Management Association Dissertation Prize, Prentice-Hall Books, National Science Foundation.

Conference Chairman: Conference Chair, Profitable Customer-Driven Organizations: Developing the Blueprint, Management Roundtable, May 1994.
Segment Chairman: Non-traditional Models of Consumer Preference and Choice, Adaptive Preference and Estimation, Optimizing Product Design and Customer Targeting, Obtaining Information From or About Consumers (Atlanta, GA, 2005, co-chair four sessions)

TIMS International Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1984 (two sessions).

TIMS College of Marketing, Houston, Texas, October 1981 (twelve sessions).

TIMS College of Marketing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1979 (five sessions).

American Marketing Association Educator's Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 1978, (three sessions).

INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Atlanta GA , June 2005 (four sessions)

Session Chairman:

INFORMS (Previously named ORSA or TIMS)


Virtual Customer Initiative (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2004)

New Approaches to Mapping (University of Maryland, 2003)

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