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Kevin Lane Keller is widely recognized as one of the top mar-
keting academics of the last 25 years. He is the E. B. Osborn Professor of
Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Professor
Keller has degrees from Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, and Duke universities. At
Dartmouth, he teaches MBA courses on marketing management and strate- Kevin Lane Keller
gic brand management and lectures in executive programs on those topics.
Previously, Professor Keller was on the faculty of the Graduate School
of Business at Stanford University, where he also served as the head of the
marketing group. Additionally, he has been on the marketing faculty at the
University of California at Berkeley and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, been a visiting professor at Duke University and the Australian Graduate School
of Management, and has two years of industry experience as Marketing Consultant for
Bank of America.
Professor Keller’s general area of expertise lies in marketing strategy and planning,
and branding. His specific research interest is in how understanding theories and con-
cepts related to consumer behavior can improve marketing strategies. His research has
been published in three of the major marketing journals—the Journal of Marketing, the
Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Consumer Research. He also has
served on the Editorial Review Boards of those journals. With over ninety published pa-
pers, his research has been extensively cited and has received numerous awards.
Professor Keller is acknowledged as one of the international leaders in the study of
brands and branding. His textbook on those subjects, Strategic Brand Management,
has been adopted at top business schools and leading firms around the world and has
been heralded as the “bible of branding.”
Actively involved with industry, he has worked on a host of different types of marketing
projects. He has served as a consultant and advisor to marketers for some of the world’s
most successful brands, including Accenture, American Express, Disney, Ford, Intel, Levi
Strauss, Procter & Gamble, and Samsung. Additional brand consulting activities have been
with other top companies such as Allstate, Beiersdorf (Nivea), BlueCross BlueShield,
Campbell’s, Colgate, Eli Lilly, ExxonMobil, General Mills, GfK, Goodyear, Intuit, Johnson &
Johnson, Kodak, L.L.Bean, Mayo Clinic, Nordstrom, Ocean Spray, Red Hat, SAB Miller,
Shell Oil, Starbucks, Unilever, and Young & Rubicam. He has also served as an academic
trustee for the Marketing Science Institute.
A popular and highly sought-after speaker, he has made speeches and conducted
marketing seminars to top executives in a variety of forums. Some of his senior manage-
ment and marketing training clients have included such diverse business organizations as
Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Telekom, GE, Google, IBM, Macy’s, Microsoft, Nestle,
Novartis, and Wyeth. He has lectured all over the world, from Seoul to Johannesburg,
from Sydney to Stockholm, and from Sao Paulo to Mumbai. He has served as keynote
speaker at conferences with hundreds to thousands of participants.
An avid sports, music, and film enthusiast, in his so-called spare time, he has helped to
manage and market, as well as serve as executive producer for, one of Australia’s great rock
and roll treasures, The Church, as well as American power-pop legends Dwight Twilley and
Tommy Keene. Additionally, he is the Principal Investor and Marketing Advisor for Second
Motion Records. He is also on the Board of Directors for The Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for
Autism and the Montshire Museum of Science. Professor Keller lives in Etna, NH, with his
wife, Punam (also a Tuck marketing professor), and his two daughters, Carolyn and Allison.
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