Rajesh Chandy,Professor of Marketing

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Rajesh K. Chandy is James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing and Co-Director of the Institute for Research in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management.  Chandy's research and publications on innovation have received a number of awards, including the Journal of Marketing's Harold Maynard Award for contributions to marketing theory and thought, the American Marketing Association's Early Career Award for Contributions to Marketing Strategy and TechSIG Award for the best article on Technology and Innovation, the Marketing Science Institute's Alden Clayton Award for the best marketing dissertation proposal, and the Mary Kay Award for the best marketing dissertation.  He was named a 2003 Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute, and Fortune magazine described his findings on innovation as "an unorthodox and bracing set of management principles."  He is a current or former editorial board member of the Journal of Marketing Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Marketing Letters.  Chandy serves as a member of US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez's Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy.  He is also a member of the Academic Council and the Knowledge Development Coalition of the American Marketing Association.  An award-winning instructor in the MBA and executive programs at the Carlson School, Chandy received the 2002-2003 Outstanding Professor of the Year award, the 2003-2004 Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2003-2004 Outstanding Faculty Dedication Award for his contributions to teaching at the school.


Areas of Expertise

  • Innovation
  • Product development
  • International business
  • Technology management
  • Marketing strategy


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Curriculum Vitae


Rajesh K. Chandy CV

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Selected Recent Presentations

  • December 10, 2007, Chandy served as a member of the US delegation for the China-United States Innovation Conference: Building an Innovative Society, Beijing, China.  The conference was sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, the U.S. Dept. of State, the Chinese Ministries of Science and Technology and Commerce, and the National Development and Reform Commission of China. The gathering featured top US and Chinese government, business, and academic leaders, including US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and was associated with the China-US Strategic Economic Dialog.

  • October 1, 2007 presentation of "Behemoths at the Gate: How Incumbents Take on Acquisitive Entrants," at the University of Houston.

  • September 2007 presentations of "Managing the Future: CEO Attention and Innovation" at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and at Bocconi University, Italy.

Selected Professional Activities & Honors

  • February 2008, winner, American Marketing Association's TechSig Best Paper Award for 2006 for "From Invention to Innovation: Conversion Ability in Product Development," co-authored with Brigitte Hopstaken, Om Narasimhan, and Jaideep C. Prabhu and published in the Journal of Marketing Research (Aug. 2006).

  • August 2007, named to the American Marketing Association Knowledge Development Coalition and to the AMA Academic Council.

  • Named co-director of the Institute for Research in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, June 2007.

  • Received an Honorable Mention in the American Marketing Association's TechSIG Best Paper Award competition for the best paper on technology or innovation published in 2005 for the paper "The Impact of Acquisitions on Innovation: Poison Pill, Placebo, or Tonic?"

  • Named to Department of Commerce Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economic Advisory Committee by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez, along with 15 business and academic leaders, including six Fortune 500 executives.


Contact Information

Rajesh K. Chandy, Professor of Marketing

Co-Director, Institute for Research in Marketing

Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota

321 Nineteenth Avenue South, Suite 3-150

Minneapolis, MN  55455-0438  USA

(612) 626-4775, fax (612) 624-8804

rchandy@umn.edu

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