The monarch and the pipevine swallowtail are the Hermès and Louis Vuitton of the butterfly world – other butterflies imitate...
Niraj Dawar
I am the Barford Professor of Marketing at the Ivey Business School, Canada. I study marketing, brands, consumer behaviour, and strategy. My publications in these areas have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, M.I.T. Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Marketing Letters, and other academic and managerial outlets. I also publish comment pieces and press articles some of which have appeared in the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Globe & Mail, Business Standard, and Business Today. I have worked in Europe, North America and Asia. Previously, I was on the INSEAD faculty from 1991-1998 as Assistant, then Associate Professor. In 2009-2010, I was Visiting Professor at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and at the Vlerick School (Gent, Belgium). In 2005-06, I was Visiting Professor of Marketing at INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore. In 2000 I was Visiting Research Professor at the University of Michigan Business School. In 1994 and again in 1995, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I have written a number of case studies that have received awards from the European Foundation for Management Development. I am an active contributor to international conferences on business and marketing issues, and have worked in an advisory role with leading companies around the world. Niraj can be reached here.
Read case studies by Niraj here.
Done well, market segmentation can do so much. It can uncover entirely new markets (see Blue Ocean Strategy), provide new ways...
At the heart of everything that marketers do resides a notion so fundamental, so basic, it is the engine that makes the free...
There is a fine line between professing free-market capitalism and teaching the subversion of those markets that is crossed in...
In 2007 The Washington Post carried an astonishing article describing a social experiment the newspaper had conducted. The Post...
I just got back from Hong Kong, and on the way back I stopped in India, as I usually do.
The saying “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan” goes back at least as far as Tacitus (around 100 B.C.). So...
It is a misconception that the dominant businesses of Silicon Valley are technology companies. Sure, when you think of the...
Professor - Congratulations, Bob, on a lifetime of path-breaking, pioneering research. It exemplifies the...
INSEAD Chaired Professor Emeritus in Corporate Governance - The work is very relevant to issues today in...
Thank you - Thank you for this insightful and inspiring synopsis!
Great questions Matteo - Great questions Matteo....
use of thought provoking titles - I have a personality that believes in making things simple to understand...