Boatwright has an M. S. in Statistics from University of Wisconsin, and both his MBA and Ph.D are from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Boatwright’s scholarly articles are published in leading research journals in the fields of marketing, statistics, and management. He consults with a variety of companies, from Fortune 100 to entrepreneurial start-ups, on product strategy, innovation and brand strategy. Professor Boatwright has developed new statistical methods and additional theories of consumer behavior, spanning qualitative and quantitative methodologies. His expertise and teaching focus is on new product marketing, consumer marketing, and marketing research methods. His formal approaches to opportunity identification and problem solving have been integrated into a diverse range of companies including International Truck/Navistar, Apple, P&G, Dormont Manufacturing, Bayer MaterialScience, Respironics, Nissan, MSA, Whirlpool, Lubrizol, Kennametal, Alcoa, RedZone Robotics, DesignAdvance Systems, New Balance, Industrial Scientific, and Giant Eagle.
Books
Built to Love: Creating Products that Captivate Customers Co-authored with Jonathan Cagan Berrett-Koehler Publishers, September 2010
The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products Co-authored with Craig M. Vogel and Jonathan Cagan Wharton School Publishing/Pearson Education, 2005, 231 pages. . .
Boatwright, Peter, Seth Orsborn, and Jonathan Cagan, , accepted for publication at Journal of Mechanical Design.
Boatwright, Peter, Jonathan Cagan, Dee Kapur, and Al Saltiel , Journal of Product and Brand Management, 18, 1, 38-49.
Orsborn, Seth, Peter Boatwright and Jonathan Cagan “Identifying Product Shape Relationships Using Principal Component Analysis” Research in Engineering Design, 18, 4, 163-180.
Orsborn, Seth, Jonathan Cagan, and Peter Boatwright “A Methodology For Creating A Statistically Derived Shape GrammarComposed Of Non-Obvious Shape Chunk”, Research in Engineering Design, 18, 4, 181-196.
Lu, Jiang, Joseph B. Kadane, and Peter Boatwright “The Dirt on Bikes: An Illustration of CART Models for Brand Differentiation”, Journal of Product and Brand Management, 17, 5, 317-326.
Borle, Sharad, Peter Boatwright, Joseph Nunes, Joseph Kadane, and Galit Shmueli “Effect of Product Assortment Changes on Consumer Retention, ” Marketing Science, Vol 24, No. 4, pp. 616–622.