Barbara Bickart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing
& Director of MBA Program

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E-Mail: bickart@crab.rutgers.edu
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Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:  Context effects on consumer judgments and decision-making; cognitive aspects of questionnaire design;  product display in retail environments; effects of group interaction on consumer decision-making.

Courses Frequently Taught:  Marketing Research; Marketing Management, Strategic Marketing Concepts.

Professional Activities & Honors:  Member, Editorial Review Board – Journal of Public Policy and Marketing; Recipient of 1998 Provosts' Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Representative Publications:
Robert Schindler and Barbara Bickart (2003) “Published 'Word of Mouth':  Referable, Consumer-Generated Information on the Internet,” in Curtis Hauvgedt, Karen Machleit and Richard Yalch (eds.), Online Consumer Psychology:  Understanding and Influencing Behavior in the Virtual WorldLawrence Erlbaum Associates, forthcoming. 

Bickart, Barbara and Robert Schindler (2001), "“Internet Forums as Influential Sources of Consumer Information,” Journal of Interactive Marketing, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer), 31-52.

Bickart, Barbara and Norbert Schwarz (2001), “Service Experiences and Satisfaction Judgments:  The Use of Affect and Beliefs in Judgment Formation,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 1, 29-41.

Simmons, Carolyn J., Barbara Bickart and Lauranne Buchanan (2000), “Leveraging Equity Across the Brand Portfolio,” Marketing Letters, Vol. 11, No. 3, 210-220.

Buchanan, Lauranne, Carolyn J. Simmons, and Barbara Bickart (1999), "Brand Equity Dilution:  Retailer Display and Context Brand Effects,” Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 36, No. 3(August),  345-355.

Bickart, Barbara and David Schmittlein (1999), “The Distribution of Survey Contact and Participation in America:  Constructing a Survey-Based Estimate,” Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 36, No. 2(May), 286-294.

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Dr. Barbara Bickart, associate professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business—Camden; editorial board member, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science; advisory board member, Association for Consumer Research. She can discuss:
 

+Brand Management:
  • Strategic brand management
  • Word-of-mouth communication and its impact on brand strength
+Consumer Behavior and Research: 
  • Effects of group interaction on consumer behavior 
  • Customer satisfaction and attitudinal measurement 
  • Effect of layout design on catalogue sales
  • Contextual factors on decision-making 
  • Survey data validity 
  • Questionnaire design
  • Word-of-mouth and consumer reviews on the Internet
+Communications:
  • Effects of group interaction on consumer behavior
  • Word-of-mouth on the Internet
+E-Commerce/Web Development:
  • Word-of-mouth and consumer reviews on the Internet
+ Polling/Survey Research:
  • Attitude measurement
  • Customer satisfaction measurement
  • Polling burnout 
  • Effect of question wording and order in surveys
  • Survey data validity
  • Questionnaire design
  • Effects of contextual factors in decision-making

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