Ashish Sood
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Email: Ashish_Sood@bus.emory.edu
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Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road NE;
Room 524
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Biography
Ashish Sood is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School. Professor Sood's primary research interests are in the areas of innovation, technology management, new product diffusion in emerging markets, and financial analysis. His research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and featured in many popular press publications.
Prior to joining the academia, he has worked in the industry for twelve years managing sales and distribution of industrial products, product and supplier quality, and new product development with Crompton Greaves Ltd. in India, and Philips Electronics in Singapore.
Professor Sood has a Ph.D. in marketing from Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University, and an MBA in Marketing with a specialization in Management of Technology from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Ashish is also an expert in quality management and TQM, and has conducted assessments of organizations for the Singapore Quality Award. He was the Lead Assessor for international standards ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and consulted with firms in India and Singapore on quality management and environmental management. He serves as a reviewer for several top journals, and presents his research regularly at academic conferences worldwide.
Professor Sood teaches marketing strategy to the undergraduates, MBA and PhD students at Goizueta Business School. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the Nanyang Business School, Singapore. He won the Teaching Excellence Award in 2004. His name has featured in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in America, and Marquis Who's Who in Finance and Business since 2002.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Sood, Ashish and Gerard J. Tellis (2005), "Technological Evolution and Radical Innovation," Journal of Marketing 69, 3, 152-168.
2. James, Gareth and Ashish Sood (2005), "Performing Hypothesis Tests on the Shape of Functional Data," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 50, Iss 1.
3. Sood, Ashish and Gerard J. Tellis (2008) "Do Innovations Really Payoff? Total Stock Market Returns to Innovation" forthcoming, Marketing Science.
- SSRN's Top Ten download list for Marketing Network June 2008
4. Sood, Ashish, Gareth James, Gerard J. Tellis (2008) "Functional Regression: A New Model for Predicting Market Penetration of New Products", forthcoming, Marketing Science.
- SSRN's Top Ten download list for Marketing Science May 2008
- SSRN's Top Ten download list for ESM: Nonparametric Methods
5. Tellis Gerard J. and Ashish Sood (2008), "How to Back the Right Technology," Business Insights, MIT SLoan Management Review-Wall Street Journal, Dec.
msi pAPERS
book chapters, WHITE PAPERS
- "Marketing Applications of Functional Data Analysis" Functional and Operatorial Statistics, Springer Series: Contributions to Statistics, Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Ferraty, Frédéric (Eds.), 2008
- "Technology S-Curve" Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, Jagdish Sheth and Naresh K Malhotra, Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming
- "The Myth of S-Curves:Technological Evolution and Product Innovation", Strategic Innovators
- "Understanding Technology Evolution - The Fallacy of S-Curves", i-PERFORM Marketing 2.0 Authority, Montgomery Research, Inc. and Accenture, 2008.
- "Technology Transition," Encyclopedia on Technology, Innovation and Management, Rosemary Nixon, and Blackwell, forthcoming 2008.
- "Understanding the Seeds of Growth: Technological Evolution and Product Innovation", Annual Thought Leadership book on CRM Transformation, Montgomery Research, Inc. and Accenture, 2007.
- SPOTLIGHT ARTICLES: Lantos Geoffrey P. "Technological Evolution and Radical Innovation," The Journal of Product Innovation Management
- "Research Productivity and Returns to Market Entry Decisions Hi-Tech Markets,” White paper, Center for Research on Technology & Innovation (CRTI), Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, 2005
BUSINESS PRESS
- "How to back the Right Technology ," Business Insights, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 14, 2008
- "Strategies:
To Make a Stock Pop, Innovate," Mark Hulbert, THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 30, 2008 (Also featured in The International Herald Tribune and Financial Express)
- "Searching For Signs of Technological Innovation In The Ruins of the American Economy - Does The "S" Curve Explain Anything About American Technological Innovation?,"
Thomas Vass,
New Technology Market News, eCarolinaNewswire.com, 08-06-2008
- "Video Discussion on Youtube,", USC Marshall - Gerard Tellis Interview on paper "Technology Evolution and Radical Innovations"
- "Are Investments in Innovations Worthwhile?" The Stock Markets Channel, Paley Media, June 25 2008
- "Do Innovations Ever Payoff? Total Stock Market Returns to Innovation" , Knowledge@Emory, 2008
- "New Model for Predicting the Trajectory of New and Existing Products", Knowledge@Emory , 2008
Invited Presentations
- "Do Innovations Really Payoff? A New Metric ToAssess Total Market Returns to Innovations" Wharton Impact Conference, The Wharton School, Mack Center for Technological Innovation 2008
- "Towards a Predictive Model of Technological Evolution", First Annual Greif Research Symposium, Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, 2008.
- "Technical Evolution and Radical Innovation" Department of Management, The Wharton School, Seminar on the Evolution of Organizations and Industries (EOI), 2007
- "Decoding Disruption " Department of Marketing, The Warrington School of Business, University of Florida, 2007
- "Technological Innovation and Market Returns to Technological Innovations,” Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, State College, PA, 2005.
- "Research Productivity and Returns to Market Entry Decisions Hi-Tech Markets,” Center for Research on Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, 2005