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Robert C. Blattberg

Polk Bros Professor of Retailing

Marketing

BA 1964, Mathematics, Northwestern University; MS 1966, Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University; PhD 1971, Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1991-Present.
Polk Bros Professor of Retailing
Director, Center for Retail Management

Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1969-1991

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing
Director, Center for Marketing Information Technology

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Marketing Strategy
Category Management and Sales Promotions
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  Journal of Interactive Marketing, Best Paper in 2005
Educator of the Year, Sales and marketing Executives, 2004
Robert C. Clarke Award, Direct Marketing Association Educator of the Year, 1990
John D.C. Little Award, Best Marketing Science and Management Science Paper of Year for "Price-Induced Patterns of Competition" jointly with Kenneth Wisniewski, 1990
Sidney T. Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1999-2000
   
Professional Leadership
  Marketing Science Institute Trustee
Director, Center for Retail Management
   
Boards of Directors
  First Horizon Corporation (Financial Services)
Price Chopper (Grocery Retailer)
GAPbuster
   
Research Areas
  Database Marketing
Retailing
Customer Equity
Sales Promotion
   
Books
  Blattberg, R., G. Getz, and J. Thomas, Customer Equity, Harvard Business Press, 2001.

Blattberg, R. R. Glazer and J.D. C Little (eds), The Marketing Information Revolution, Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Business Press, 1994.

Blattberg, R. and S. Neslin, Sales Promotion Concepts, Methods and Strategies, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990.
   
Representative Publications
  V. Singh, K. Hansen, R. Blattberg, " Market Entry and Consumer Behavior: An Investigation of a Wal-Mart Supercenter", Marketing Science, forthcoming.

Malthouse, E. and R. Blattberg, "Can We Predict Customer Lifetime Value?" Journal of Interactive Marketing, (Winter 2005) Winner of Best Paper 2005.

Thomas, J., R. Blattberg, E. Fox, "Recapturing Lost Customers," Journal of Marketing Research, (February 2004).

"Manage Marketing by Consumer Equity Test" (with John Deighton), Harvard Business Review, July-August 1996.

Category Management, Getting Started (with Edward Fox), Washington, DC: Food Marketing Institute, 1995, Guide 1.

Category Management, Blueprint for Implementation (with Edward Fox), Washington, DC: Food Marketing Institute, 1995, Guide2.

Category Management, Category Plan (with Edward Fox), Washington, DC: Food Marketing Institute, 1995, Guide 3.

Category Management, Information Technology (with Mary Purk), Washington, DC: Food Marketing Institute, 1995, Guide 4.

Category Management, The Role of Supplier Organizations (with Mary Purk), Washington, DC: Food Marketing Institute, 1996, Guide 5.
   
General / Consulting
 

American Express
Exon-Mobil
The Kroger Co.
IRI

The Kroger Co
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