 From 1993 until 1998, he directed the Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.Between 2001 and 2009, he held several management positions at the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law.Bauer taught and researched as a visiting professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2000-2001); the University of Constance, Germany (2010); and the Institute of Media and Communications Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012).