Charan Bagga

Charan Bagga

Positions

Associate Professor

Haskayne School of Business, Marketing [MKTG]

Contact information

Email

charan.bagga@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: 403-220-8241

Location

Office: SH492

For media enquiries, contact

Lauren Steeves
Senior Marketing and Communications Strategist

Phone: (403) 220-6153
Email: lauren.steeves@ucalgary.ca

 

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Marketing, Ivey Business School, 2015

Master Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 2004

Biography

Charan K Bagga is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Haskayne School of Business. Charan has a PhD in marketing from the Ivey Business School, Canada and was formerly a visiting professor at the Tulane University. He does research in the areas of brand positioning, competition and differentiation, loyalty programs, object valuation, and marketing metrics. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and other academic journals. Charan has also worked as a senior manager in sales and consulting at global corporations (Cognizant, CSC [now DXC], Standard Chartered, HCL) in the United States and India.

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
MKTG 493 Strategic Marketing Winter 2022
MKTG 601 Marketing Management Winter 2022

Awards

  • Dean's Research Scholar 2019,
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Business Research, 2018

Publications

  • Standardized Global Brand Management Using CD Maps. Niraj Dawar; Charan K Bagga. Springer, Cham. 121--148. (2018)
  • Separating customer heterogeneity, points pressure and rewarded behavior to assess a retail loyalty program. Nastasoiu, Alina, Neil T. Bendle, Charan K. Bagga, Mark Vandenbosch, and Salvador Navarro. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 1-19. (2021)
  • Object Valuation and Non-Ownership Possession - How Renting and Borrowing Impact Willingness-to-pay.. Bagga, Charan K., Neil Bendle, and June Cotte. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 47.1. 97-117. (2019)
  • The Metrics That Marketers Muddle. Bendle, Neil T., and Charan K. Bagga. MIT Sloan Management Review 57, no. 3 . 73. (2016)
  • Asymmetric Consequences of Radical Innovations on Category Representations of Competing Brand. Bagga, Charan K., Theodore J. Noseworthy, and Niraj Dawar. Journal of Consumer Psychology 1, no. 26. 29-39. (2016)
  • A Simple Graph Explains the Complex Logic of the Big Beer Merger. Dawar, Niraj and Charan K. Bagga. Harvard Business Review. Digital Article: Oct. (2015)
  • A better way to map brand strategy.. Dawar, Niraj, and Charan K. Bagga. Harvard Business Review 93, no.6. 90-97. (2015)