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Andris Zoltners

Professor of Marketing

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BS 1967, Mathematics, University of Miami; MS 1969, Mathematics, Purdue University; MSIA 1972, PhD 1973, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University

 
Academic Positions Held
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
1976-Present
Professor of Marketing, 1982-Present
Associate Professor of Marketing, 1979-1982
Assistant Professor of Marketing, 1976-1979
 

School of Business Administration, University of Massachusetts, 1973-1976 Assistant Professor of Management Science, 1973-1976

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Sales Force Management
   
Professional Leadership
  Academic Director, Three Kellogg Executive Programs:
Accelerating Sales Force Performance
Sales Force Incentive Planning: Compensating for Results
The Kellogg School Summit for Sales Executives: Intergrating Sales and Marketing Strategies
   
Research Areas
  Sales Force Productivity Enhancement
Entrepreneurship
   
Books

  Sales Force Incentive Compensation
   
Building A Winning Sales Force, (2008 with P. Sinha, S. E. Lorimer).

The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation: How to Design and Implement Plans That Work (2006, with P. Sinha, S. E. Lorimer).

Sales Force Design for Strategic Advantage
(2004, with P. Sinha, S. E. Lorimer) published in one other language.

The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance
(2001, with P. Sinha, G. Zoltners).

The Fat Firm
(1997, with P. Sinha, S. Murphy), published in 6 languages

Marketing Planning Models (ed. 1982)

Marketing Decision Models (ed. 1981)


   
Representative Publications
 

“Sales Force Effectiveness: A Framework for Researchers and Practitioners," (with P. Sinha and S.E. Lorimer), Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Vol. XXVIII, No.2, Spring 2008, pp.115-131.

"Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle,” (with P. Sinha and S. E. Lorimer), Harvard Business Review, July/August 2006.

“Sales Territory Design: Thirty Years of Modeling and Implementation,” (with P. Sinha), winning entry in the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize Competition, Marketing Science, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer 2005, pp. 313-331.

“The Changing Environment of Selling and Sales Management,” (with E. Jones, S. P. Brown, B. A. Weitz), Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 105-111.

“Sales and Marketing Integration: A Proposed Framework,” (with D. Rouziès, E. Anderson, A, K. Kohli, R. E. Michaels, B. A. Weitz), Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 113-122.

“Global sales effectiveness initiatives: What works and what does not?” (with P. Sinha) Published in Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 5, 2005, pp. 19-26.

"Sales Force Decision Models: Insights from 25 Years of Implementation," (with P. Sinha), Interfaces, June 2001, Vol. 3, Issue 3, Part 2, 37 pages.

"Integer Programming Models for Sales Resource Allocation," (with P. Sinha), Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, March 1980, pp. 242-260.

"Impact of Resource Allocation Rules on Marketing Investment-Level Decisions and Profitability," (with M. Mantrala and P. Sinha), Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 29, May 1992, pp. 162-175.

"An Integrated Model-Based Approach for Sales Force Structuring," (with A. Rangaswamy and P. Sinha), Marketing Science, Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall 1990, pp. 279-298.

"Structuring a Multiproduct Sales Quota-Bonus Plan for a Heterogeneous Sales Force: A Practical Model-based Approach," (with M. Mantrala and P. Sinha), Marketing Science, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 121-144.

"Sales Territory Alignment: A Review and Model," (with P. Sinha), Management Science, Vol. 29, No. 11, November 1983, pp. 1237-1256.

"Sales Territory Alignment: An Overlooked Productivity Tool," (with S. E. Lorimer), The Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Summer 2000, Vol. XX, Number 3, pp. 139-150.

   
General / Consulting
  Founder and Co-Chairman of ZS Associates, a global management consulting firm specializing in sales and marketing strategy, operations and execution. ZS has over 1000 people across 15 offices worldwide.
  last modified 4/29/2008
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