 
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.
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- Innovation
- Product development
- International business
- Technology management
- Marketing strategy
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Full List of Publications
Recent Publications
- "Radical Innovation Across Nations: The Pre-eminence of Corporate Culture," Gerard J. Tellis, Jaideep C. Prabhu, and Rajesh K. Chandy, Journal of Marketing (forthcoming Jan. 2009).
- "The Fruits of Legitimacy: Why Some New Ventures Gain More from Innovation than Others Do," Raghunath S. Rao, Rajesh K. Chandy, and Jaideep C. Prabhu, Journal of Marketing(forthcoming July 2008).
- "Competitive Response to Radical Product Innovations," Khaled Aboulnasr, Om Narasimhan, Ed Blair, and Rajesh K. Chandy, Journal of Marketing (May 2008).
- "Managing the Future: CEO Attention and Innovation Outcomes," Manjit S. Yadav, Jaideep C. Prabhu, and Rajesh K. Chandy, Journal of Marketing (Oct. 2007).
- "Why Some Acquisitions Do Better than Others: Product Capital as a Driver of Long-Term Stock Returns," Rajesh K. Chandy, Alina Sorescu, and Jaideep C. Prabhu, Journal of Marketing Research (Feb. 2007).
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Selected Media
- February 25, 2008 Iconocast article, "U of M Researchers Find that Words of a CEO Can Foretell a Company's Future Innovation."
- January 18, 2008, "A Better Way to Track the Economy," by Michael Mandel, Business Week.
- January 20, 2008, "Challenge in Multimedia Campaign is to Market Minnesota Modesty," by John Rash, Star Tribune.
- December 2007, "News: Forward-Looking CEOs Find Greater Success," Marketing Thought Leaders Newsletter, American Marketing Association.
- November 2007, Twin Cities' Business magazine article, "A CEOs Words Might Say More than Intended."
- September 21, 2007 article "Device Makers Take a Chance on TV Advertising," in the Pioneer Press.
- July 5, 2007 Larry Yi article "Measuring the Culture of Innovation" for MIT's Sloan Management Review.
- March-April 2007 Marketing Management article "Thought Leaders From the American Marketing Association: Capital Connection," on Chandy's Feb. 2007 article, "Why Some Acquisitions Do Better Than Others: Product Capital as a Driver of Long-Term Stock Returns" in the Journal of Marketing Research.
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.
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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
Instructional profile
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