Faculty Profile

Dr. Judy K. Frels
Senior Director of Custom Programs, MBA Office

Ph.D., University of Texas

Robert H. Smith School of Business
2417 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.7607; 301.405.0146 fax
jfrels@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Joined University of Maryland 1999.

Judy K. Frels is the Senior Director of Custom Programs in the MBA office at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the marketing of high-technology products, competitive strategies in network markets, consumers’ ability to cope with technology, and consumer switching costs. She uses both traditional survey methodology as well as computerized agent-based simulations. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. She teaches Marketing of High Technology Products and Marketing Strategy in the M.B.A. program, the E.M.B.A. program and in non-degree executive education programs. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., Frels spent ten years developing operating systems and compilers, as well as managing and marketing other software and hardware products both at IBM and at smaller firms. She has consulted with several firms including W. R. Grace, Microstrategy, SAIC, Imation, Bay Networks, Input-Output, Inc., and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards

  • 2007 Best Living Case Award for “BMW” Living Case awarded by Graduate School of Business Administration, Zurich
  • 2004-2005  Teaching Enhancement Committee Award Recipient, Smith School
  • 2004-2005   Krowe / Legg Mason Award Winner

Selected Publications

Frels, Judy, Tasadduq Shervani and Rajendra K. Srivastava, (2003), "The Integrated Networks Model: Explaining Resource Allocation in Network Markets," Journal of Marketing, January 29-45.

Frels, Judy, Thomas A. Burnham and Vijay Mahajanand, (2003), "Consumer Switching Costs: A Typology, Antecedents, and Consequences," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Spring.

Won the Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award for Volume 31 (2003)