The College of Media is a college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,United States. The college name changed from College of Communications to the College of Media in 2008.
Frank M. Bass was an American academic in the field of marketing research and marketing science. He was the creator of the Bass diffusion model that describes the adoption of new products and technologies by first-time buyers. He died on December 1,2006.
Brian Wansink is a former American professor and researcher who worked in consumer behavior and marketing research. He is the former executive director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) (2007–2009) and held the John S. Dyson Endowed Chair in the Applied Economics and Management Department at Cornell University,where he directed the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.
Rajendra K. Srivastava is Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Indian School of Business. He has been a tenured professor and an academic administrator and has worked in the United States,Singapore,and India. He has been listed in the Forbes's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018. He is also a member of the board of directors of Happiest Minds,a publicly listed company in India.
The Journal of Media Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of media economics published by Routledge.
Marianne A. Ferber was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work,the family,and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Marc Leon Nerlove is an American agricultural economist and econometrician and a distinguished university professor emeritus in agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (AEA) in 1969 and held appointments at eight different universities from 1958–2016. The Clark Medal is awarded to an economist under the age of 40 who “is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”,and when the AEA appointed him as a distinguished fellow in 2012,they cited his development of widely used econometric methods across a range of subjects,including supply and demand,time series analysis,production functions,panel analysis,and family demography.
Jean-Charles Chebat,was a Canadian marketing researcher. He held the ECSC Research Chair of Retailing at HEC Montréal.
Itamar Simonson is a professor of marketing,holding the Sebastian S. Kresge Chair of Marketing in the Graduate School of Business,Stanford University. He is known for his work on the factors that determine the choices that buyers make. His academic career started at the University of California at Berkeley,where he taught for six years,before he moved to Stanford. Many of his former PhD students hold senior positions at some of the best universities in the world.
The Business History Conference (BHC) is an academic organization that supports all aspects of research,writing,and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. Founded in 1954,the BHC supports ongoing research among its members and holds conferences to bring together business and economic historians. It also publishes a quarterly academic journal,Enterprise &Society,along with selected papers from its annual meetings via BEH On-Line.
William Breit (1933–2011) was an American economist,mystery novelist,and professional comedian. Breit was born in New Orleans. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1961. He was an Assistant and associate professor of economics at Louisiana State University (1961–1965) On the recommendation of Milton Friedman he was interviewed and hired at the University of Virginia where he was Associate Professor and Professor of Economics (19651983). He returned to his San Antonio as the E.M. Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in 1983 and retired as the Vernon F. Taylor Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2002. He is considered an expert in the history of economic thought and anti-trust economics. He established the Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Trinity University and is most notable as a mystery novelist where their murder mysteries are solved by applying basic economic principles.
David Glen Mick is the Robert Hill Carter Professor in Marketing in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He is former editor of the Journal of Consumer Research (1999-2003),past President of the Association for Consumer Research (2005),and an elected fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He is credited with being a co-founder in 2005 of Transformative Consumer Research at the Association for Consumer Research. In general,Mick's research has focused on the nature and role of meaning and communication in consumer behavior. More specifically,he has addressed semiotics and consumer behavior,consumer motivations,self-gifts,advertising,materialism,satisfaction,technological products,and,more recently,wisdom and well-being. Mick has been recognized for his research in varied ways. He was awarded the Best Article Award for 1986–1988 in the Journal of Consumer Research. He is also a recipient of the 1999 Harold H. Maynard Award for research in the Journal of Marketing. He has been ranked as one of the top 50 most prolific scholars in the leading marketing journals from 1982 to 2006. He has also been ranked as one of the top-10 most published consumer researchers in the Journal of Consumer Research for the 25-year period of 1977–2002. Mick has been invited to conduct seminars at universities across the world,including Harvard,Duke,Stanford,Oxford,Erasmus (Netherlands),Trinity (Ireland),and the Stockholm School of Economics,among others.
Journal of Marketing Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Marketing Association. It was established in 1964 and covers all aspects of marketing research. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.000. The founding editor was Robert Ferber.
Jerry (Yoram) Wind is The Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,and is the founding director of the Wharton "think tank,”The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management.
Michel Wedel is the PepsiCo Chaired Professor of Consumer Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business,and a Distinguished University Professor,at the University of Maryland,College Park. He works on the development of statistical and econometric methods to analyze and predict consumer behavior,in addition to market segmentation and eye tracking research.
George Stanford Tolley was an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago. Along with the faculty at the University of Chicago,he has worked on the faculty of North Carolina State University. In 1965–1966,he was Director of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture,and in 1974–1975 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury.
Paul E. Green ) was an American marketing professor and statistician. He was S.S. Kresge Professor of Marketing,and later Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania.
Horace Secrist was an American statistician and economist,a professor and the director of the Bureau of Economic Research at Northwestern University.
Judith T. Lessler is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology,particularly on surveys relating to health and epidemiology.
Ela Veresiu is a Canadian-Romanian consumer sociologist and an associate professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business,York University.
