Julie Hennessy is a Clinical Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Hennessy's MBA and Executive teaching focuses on the development of Marketing Strategies to enhance long-term competitive advantage and profitability. She works frequently with research and technology-driven firms that desire to become more customer-centric, in both new product/services and mature product/services categories.

At Kellogg, she teaches three courses: Introduction to Marketing, Advanced Marketing Strategy for Growth and Defense, and Marketing Consulting Lab. In addition to MBA courses, she teaches extensively at the Executive level. Recent Executive teaching assignments have included work with Starbucks, Facebook, Hyatt, SC Johnson, Abbvie, Medtronic, Nestle, McDonalds, Microsoft, ABInBev, John Deere, Kraft/Heinz and Textron.

Professor Hennessy has been a regular recipient of teaching awards at the Kellogg School. In both 2017 and 2007, she received the Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg's top award for teaching quality and impact, as voted by the Kellogg graduating class. She had been a finalist (top 5 faculty members) in consideration for the Lavengood Award in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Professor Hennessy has also been recognized by her academic department, winning the Marketing Department's Core Course Teaching award three times, most recently in 2022. She has also received special student impact awards in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Professor Hennessy's writing concentrates on cases for classroom use. Recent cases written include studies of Stella Artois in South Africa, Teach for India, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hispanic Organ Transplant Program, Synthroid, TiVo, Apple iPod, Invisalign Orthodontics, and Biaxin and Zithromax in the antibiotics market. 

• MM, 1982, Finance, Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• BS, Mathematics, Psychology, Indiana University

• Clinical Professor of Marketing Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2007-present
• Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2004-2006
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997-2004

• President, Hennessy Associates, Inc., 1997-present
• Category Manager, Kraft Foods, 1986-1997

• Marketing Department Core Course Teaching Award
• LG Lavengood Teacher of the Year Award
• Certificate of Impact Teaching Award
• Certificate of Impact Teaching Award, Fall Quarter 2016
• Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award
• Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award
• Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award
• Chairs, Kellogg School of Management, 2010-2011, 2006-2007, 2004-2005, 2001-2002, 1999-2000
• L.G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2007

Marketing management, Marketing strategy, Branding

Business for Scientists and Engineers

For practitioners and academics in science and engineering, this highly focused program provides a solid grounding in business concepts, industry-specific tools and practical frameworks for developing the business acumen you need to advance your life’s work.

Executive Development Program

The Kellogg Executive Development Program transforms organizational leaders. It equips top-performing, mid-level to senior managers to make decisions and take strategic action based upon both traditional and innovative business practices. Participants build skills and awareness as they realize their potential for assuming general management roles.

Kellogg on Branding

Utilizing a blended learning approach from the thought leaders at Kellogg, learn how branding can help you build a solid and enduring business while gaining new insights into the importance and value of a strongly differentiated brand.

The Customer-Focused Organization

The digital revolution is empowering customers, fueling disruptive innovation and globalization of markets. In the wake of these challenges, firms that are customer-centric thrive. Learn how leaders successfully infuse a customer-centric perspective throughout an organization, generate value, build brands with meaning, and offer exceptional customer experiences to win in the digital age.

Marketing Management (MKTGX-430-0)
Marketing Management addresses the importance of companies being market-driven and customer-focused and presents current theories and practices of marketing management.

Marketing Consulting Laboratory (MKTG-650-0)
The Marketing Consulting Lab allows students to work on a real-time 10-week consulting project. Students will be assigned to a team of 5-6 students and a client, and will be paired with a coach from Kearney Consulting. Past clients include AbbVie, Crate and Barrel, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Nike, Nissan, and Uber. During the weekly class meetings, students will work in teams on their project, and will learn from the professors relevant discipline-content that is specifically customized for their individual project. As one student summarized their experience: "This much anticipated experiential learning course at Kellogg was worth the wait and I look forward to leveraging these takeaways throughout the rest of my time in the program and beyond in my professional career."

This course may not be dropped less than a week prior to the start of the quarter

Recommended Prerequisite: MKTG-450-0

Marketing Management (MKTG-430-0)
This course takes an analytical approach to the study of marketing problems of business firms and other types of organizations. Attention focuses on the influence of the marketplace and the marketing environment on marketing decision making; the determination of the organization's products, prices, channels and communication strategies; and the organization's system for planning and controlling its marketing effort.