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Rohit Aggarwal
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Biography
Education
- BE 2000, Dept. of Chemical Engg. & Tech. (DCET), Panjab University, Chandigarh
- MBA 2002, Marketing, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon
- PhD 2008, Operations and Management Information Systems, University of Connecticut. Project: Essays on Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM): Effect on Firms and Influence on Venture Capitalists’ Investment Decisions
Honors & Awards
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2008
Biography
Rohit Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. His research interests include studying the avenues and challenges posed by User Generated Content (UGC) on businesses. Specifically, he investigates the underlying processes/conditions that alter the influence level of UGC on final business outcomes. His research helps firms and institutional investors in understanding the value of UGC and finding out ways to better utilize UGC. He is also interested in investigating online reputation mechanism designs that shape both the generation and utilization of UGC. His work is forthcoming in Information Systems Research.
In the Media
- Entrepreneur: Why Negativity Can Be Good for Your Business Blog. 12/01/2011. http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/220808
- Yahoo!: Negative Employees Can Be Good for Business. 11/17/2011. http://news.yahoo.com/negative-employees-good-busi...
- Business News Daily: The Positive Side of Negative Employee Blogs. 11/17/2011. http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/1689-angry-employ...
- Technorati: Surprise! Going Negative Might Be Good for Business Blogging. 11/16/2011. http://technoratimedia.com/2011/11/surprise-going-...
- Business Wire: Negative Blog Posts Can Have Positive Impact on Business. 11/16/2011. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/201111160051...
- Blogonomics: The Upside of Transparency, Condé Nast Portfolio.com. 11/2007. http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers...
