Jonathan Barsky
Associate Professor
Jonathan Barsky has been a professor at University of San
Francisco since 1985, and was granted tenure in 1991. Since he
began at USF, Jonathan has brought his expertise in customer
satisfaction to the School of Management. He has conducted
extensive research on how to measure customer satisfaction and the
determining factors that influence customer satisfaction, with a
focus in the hotel industry.
He has published 100 + articles in various journals and trade
publications as well as two books, including his first book
World- Class Customer Satisfaction, now going into
it's 13th year of publication. In the past year alone
Jonathan has published 11 articles, including Do Green Programs
Really Affect Hotel Selection or Price Sensitivity? which was
published in Hotel and Motel Management Journal. Jonathan has
received several honors and awards for his work, such as "Best
Paper Award" for his article Customer Satisfaction: Applying
concepts to industry-wide measures" from the Cornell
Quarterly.
Education
Ph.D., Business Administration - Marketing, Golden Gate University, 1991
Teaching
- BA302-03 Marketing
- BA302-04 Marketing
- BA366-01 Customer Satisfaction
Publications
Finding the Profit in Customer Satisfaction: Translating the
Best Practices into Bottom-line Result, NTC/Contemporary
Publishers: Illinois, 1999
"The Satisfaction Gap: Converting Satisfied Customers Into
Repeat Customers" IAHMS/EuroChrie Autumn, Barsky. J, Conference
1996, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. November 6-8, 1996
Building a World Class Service Program" Cornell Hotel and
Restaurant Administration Quarterly, 1996 (Lead Article),
Barsky. J