Marketing Legends
In this video, Dr. Ruth Bolton, Professor of Marketing at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, interviews Dr. George S. Day, Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During this interview, Dr. Day discusses market drive strategies, organization and how companies can use data to strategically plan for the future.
George S. Day has helped some of the largest companies address strategic marketing challenges through a variety of creative techniques. In speaking with Ruth, he shares how his research of looking at companies from the outside in may help companies of all sizes can navigate a new environment of more data, fast pace, and customer led-experiences. Day provides a multitude of examples from some of the largest companies; Nike, Amazon, GE and more.
George S. Day | A Brief Biography
George Day is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Marketing and co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
A native of Canada, Professor Day receive degrees from University of British Columbia and University of Western Ohio. He eventually moved to the US to receive his PhD from Columbia University and moved to Stanford for his first teaching role.
Day has taught as a faculty member and visiting faculty member at some of the leading business schools around the world. He served as Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute and then joined the Wharton School where he continues to teach.
The author of nearly 20 books in the areas of marketing and strategic management. These books include Strategy from the Outside-In: Profiting from Customer Value (with another AMA Fellow Christine Moorman) 2010, and Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth, 2013.
He has been honored with ten best article award and one best book award. Day has also been honored with the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award in 1994, the Paul D. Converse Award in 1996, the Sheth Foundation award in 2003, and the Mahajan Award for career contributions to strategy in 2001. In 2003 he received the AMA/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award.
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