Curriculum Vitae
Contact Info
Rady School of Management
Otterson Hall, Room
3S154
9500 Gilman Drive #0553
La Jolla, CA 92093-0553
Phone:
(858) 8220314
Fax:
(858) 5340744
E-mail:
serat@ucsd.edu
Research Areas
Product co-developmentTechnology
Licensing
New product development
Technology management
Industry Areas
TechnologyServices

Erat's research interests include new product development and technology management.
Prior to joining the Rady School, Erat taught operations management to undergraduates at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in operations management from Georgia Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career, Erat spent time as a software design engineer for Microsoft and Texas Instruments.
Published/Forthcoming papers
Erat, S., and S. Kavadias (2006) “Introduction of New Technologies to Competing Industrial Customers,” 52(11), Management Science, pp. 1675-1688.
Erat, S., and S. Kavadias (2008) “Sequential Testing of Product Designs: Implications for Learning,” 54(5), Management Science, pp. 956-968.
Erat, S, and V. Krishnan (2012) "Managing Delegated Search over Design Spaces" 58(3), Management Science pp. 606-623.
Erat, S, and U. Gneezy (2012) "White Lies" 58(4), Management Science pp. 723-733.
Erat, S, and S. Bhaskaran (2011) "Consumer Mental Accounting: Implications to Selling Base-products and Addons" Forthcoming Marketing Science
Erat, S. and S. Kavadias., and C. Gaimon (2012) "The pitfalls of subsystem (over-)integration Forthcoming Management Science
"Working Papers
Erat, S. (2011). "Sorting in the Market for Collaboration: The Role of Sharing Rules"