Vincent Barabba

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Vincent Barabba
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Personal details
Born (1934-09-06) September 6, 1934 (age 89)
Chicago, Illinois
EducationCalifornia State University, Northridge
University of California, Los Angeles

Vincent Barabba (born September 6, 1934) is an American

opinion polling
.

Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Barabba was awarded a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1962 from California State University, Northridge and, in 1964, an MBA in marketing from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2012 by California State University, Northridge.[2]

Beginning as political campaign survey researcher in the 1964 California Republican primary between

Eastman Kodak. He co-founded and was chairman of Market Insight Corporation,[3] Until 2003 he was General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development at General Motors
, where he conceived and devised OnStar and MyProductAdvisor.

He is a Past President of the

Citizens Redistricting Commission.[5] He is chairman of The State of The USA, a nonprofit corporation providing quality information to the American public on societal, economic, and environmental conditions.[6]

Awards

In recognition of his private and public sector performance, Barabba was awarded:

Publications

Barabba has authored or co-authored numerous books and articles, including:

  • 1968 “Political Campaign Management: Myth and Reality” The Ethics of Controversy: Politics and Protest. Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium on Issues in Public Communication, held at the University of Kansas June 27–28
  • 1983 (With Mason, R.O. and Mitroff, I.I.) “Federal Statistics in a Complex Environment: The Case of the 1980 Federal Census,” The American Statistician, Volume 37, No. 3, Washington, DC: The American Statistical Association
  • 1985 “Steel Axes for Stone Age Men” in: Buzzell, R., Marketing in an Electronic Age, 75th Anniversary Harvard Business School Research Colloquium, Boston: Harvard Business School Press
  • 1991 (With Zaltman, G.) Hearing the Voice of the Market: Competitive Advantage through Creative Use of Market Information, Boston: Harvard Business School Press
  • 1994 “Never Say the Model Says. The Role of Models in Managerial Decision Making” in Wallace, W. Ethics in Modeling, New York: Pergamon Press
  • 1998 “Revisiting Plato’s Cave: Business Design in an Age of Uncertainty,” in Tapscott, D. et al., eds., Blue Print for the Digital Economy, New York: McGraw-Hill
  • 2002 (With Huber, C., Cooke, F., Pudar, N., Smith, J., and Paich, M.) “A Multi-Method Approach for Creating New Business Models: The General Motors OnStar Project”, Interfaces, 32 (1), pp. 20–34
  • 2002 (With
    Ackoff, R
    .) “Above and Beyond Knowledge Management” in Chun, W. C. and Bontis, N. (eds) The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organization Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 359–369
  • 2004, Surviving Transformation, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 170–171
  • 2011, The Decision Loom: a design for interactive decision-making in organizations

References

  1. ^ "Vincent P. Barabba, GM General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development". acasa.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23.
  2. ^ a b "Vincent P. Barabba | CSU". www.calstate.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  3. ^ "About Vincent Barabba". Triarchy Press.
  4. ^ US Census Bureau, Census History Staff. "Directors 1965 - 1976 - History - U.S. Census Bureau". www.census.gov.
  5. ^ "Background on Commission | California Citizens Redistricting Commission".
  6. ^ a b "The State of the USA | About | Staff and Leadership". www.stateoftheusa.org.
  7. JSTOR 2684138
    – via JSTOR.
  8. ^ "Recognizing the ASA's Lifetime Members | Amstat News". February 1, 2013.
  9. ^ "MRC Hall of Fame – Market Research Council".
  10. ^ "Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award".
  11. ^ "System Dynamics Applications Award". System Dynamics Society. January 15, 2021.