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Sridhar  Balasubramanian

Roy & Alice H. Richards Bicentennial Scholar and Associate Professor of Marketing
 
Address: CB# 3490
Chapel Hill, NC 
27599-3490
Office: McColl 4514
  (919) 962-3194
 
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Areas of Expertise

  • competitive strategy
  • customer: customer service/services
  • innovation
  • marketing
  • marketing: channels

Media Mentions

2009

Reuters featured a blog about the study "Consumer Options: Theory and am Empirical Application to a Sports Market" by Preethika Seshasainam (PhD ’08) and marketing professors Sridhar Balasubramanian and Barry Bayus in "Selling forwards for sporting events." (April 3) Additional coverage of the study included Condé Nast Portfolio in "Selling Forwards for Sporting Events" (April 3); The Herald-Sun in "Study looks at option-based ticket sales"(April 4); and Courant.com in "College study says Phooey to lottery system" (April 1).

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Biography

Marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian has a wide range of research and teaching interests. They include modeling competition between marketing channels; the management of channels and channel portfolios; CRM; product and service innovation; e-commerce and m-commerce; technology adoption and usage by consumers and firms; and the economic leverage of virtual communities.

The National Science Foundation recently granted him and two co-researchers $500,000 to study virtual investing-related communities.

Dr. Balasubramanian worked as area sales manager for India's leading food manufacturing and marketing company before he began his academic career and has consulted with many startups and established firms.

He received his PhD from Yale University, MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.




Recent Media Mentions

2009 2008
  • The Wall Street Journal published "Notice Me: Cutting Through the Market Clutter" by marketing professors Sridhar Balasubramanian and Pradeep Bhardwaj. The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Wall Street Journal Asia also published their article. (Oct. 20)

2006
  • The Charlotte Observer quoted marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "Origin in PR, future all over." (April 5)

  • The News & Observer quoted marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "Don’t expect too much." (Dec. 2) The Winston-Salem Journal quoted him "SimpliFi targets an underserved group." (Dec. 10)

2005
  • The Herald-Sun quoted marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "Channeling products." (Oct. 23)

  • Fast Company quoted marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "High Fliers." The magazine cited Valarie Zeithaml, marketing professor and associate dean of MBA programs, as a juror who helped Fast Company select the 2005 Customers First Awards winners for the cover story. (October)

  • The Edmonton Journal in Ontario quote marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "Lower-cost version of branded products offered to get new buyers: Companies with quality brand names often push cost-effectiveness or product attributes." (July 1) The article originally appeared in The New York Times.

  • The New York Times quoted marketing professor Sridhar Balasubramanian in "Name Brands Embrace Some Less-Well-Off Kinfolk."(June 24) The International Herald Tribune also published the article as "Despite U.S. recovery, zeal for low-cost products." WUNC-FM News interviewed Balasubramanian for a story about ChannelAdvisor. (June 27)






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