Academic Positions
Jerry Wind is The Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founding director of the Wharton “think tank,” The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. The Center’s mission is to assure, through research and development, the quality, relevance, and impact of management research, education, and practice. Dr. Wind joined the Wharton faculty in January 1967, upon receipt of his doctorate from Stanford University.
Program Development
Dr. Wind is the founder and academic director of The Wharton Fellows program. From 1983 to 1988, he was the founding director of The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, and from 1980 to 1983 the founding director of The Wharton Center for International Management Studies. Dr. Wind chaired the Wharton committees that designed The Wharton Executive MBA Program (1974), the new MBA curriculum (1991), the School’s globalization strategy (1995-1997), and the MBA’s cross-functional integration efforts (2002-04). He also started The Wharton International Forum (1987) and served as the chairman of its faculty council until 1998. He was instrumental in establishing the Alfred West, Jr. Learning Lab and served as a member of its first advisory board (2001-05).
Publications
Dr. Wind is one of the most cited authors in marketing. His regular contributions to professional marketing literature include 23 books and over 250 papers, articles, and monographs encompassing the areas of marketing strategy, marketing research, new product and market development, consumer and industrial buying behavior, and global marketing.
Dr. Wind’s books have received wide acclaim and many have been translated into a number of languages. His most recognized recent publications include: Competing in a Flat World, with Victor and William Fung (Wharton School Publishing 2007), The Power of Impossible Thinking: How Changing Your Mental Models Will Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, with Colin Crook (Wharton School Publishing 2004), Convergence Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the New Hybrid Consumer with Vijay Mahajan (Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2002), and Driving Change with Jeremy Main (Free Press 1998). Both The Power of Impossible Thinking and Convergence Marketing were selected by Executive Book Summaries as one of the thirty best business books of 2002 and 2004.
His recent edited books– The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit and Risk in an Interlinked World (Wharton School Publishing, June 2009), New Product Diffusion Models (Kluwer 2000), Digital Marketing (Wiley 2001), and Marketing Research and Modeling: Progress and Prospects (Kluwer 2004)–include the works of the leading experts on these topics. In 2012, Sage will publish an 8-volume edited anthology of Dr. Wind’s publications through the Legends of Marketing Series.
Editorship
Dr. Wind founded Wharton School Publishing (Wharton’s J.V. with Pearson) (2003) and served as the first Wharton editor (2003-2008). He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing, on the policy boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and Marketing Science, and has been on the editorial boards of the major marketing journals. He has been a guest editor of special issues of the major marketing journals including Marketing Science (1996) on Empirical Generalization in Marketing (with Frank Bass), JMR (1978) on market segmentation and (1997) on Innovation in New Product Development and Marketing Research (1998) on The State of the Art in Quantitative Research.
Business Experience
Dr. Wind has served as an advisor to many Fortune 500 firms and a number of non- U.S. multinationals in the financial services, pharmaceuticals, information, and consumer packaged goods industries. His consulting focuses on both overall global corporate and business strategy and transformation as well as marketing strategy and especially the development of new businesses. He is a regular advisor to the investment firm SEI. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in various legal cases. Dr. Wind is a member of the advisory board of a number of start-ups including Arshiya (India), and Decision Lens. He is a former director of IDT (HK), Enhance Financial Services Corporation, Contel Corporation, CASA and a number of entrepreneurial ventures.
Professional Activities
Dr. Wind is an active member of the major marketing and management science professional associations. He is the former Chancellor of the International Academy of Management (IAM). He is a former academic trustee of the Marketing Science Institute and former chairman of the College of Marketing of the Institute of Management Science. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Marketing Accountability Standards Board. He is one of the founders of the Israeli university–The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) (1994), chairman of its academic council, and member of its academic appointment and promotion committee. He is also a member of the board of the American Friends of IDC. He is a member of the boards of a number of Wharton’s centers, including the Lauder Institute and Knowledge@Wharton; a trustee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art and a member of its digital age committee; and a member of the Advisory Board of Business for Diplomatic Action. He is a frequent lecturer in faculty seminars and executive programs in over 50 universities worldwide.
Awards
Dr. Wind is the recipient of various awards, including the four major marketing awards–The Charles Coolidge Parlin Award (1985), the AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator Award (1993), the Paul D. Converse Award (1996) and the Buck Weaver Award (2007). He is the recipient of the first Faculty Impact Award given by Wharton Alumni (1993). In 1984, he was elected as member of the Attitude Research Hall of Fame and has won a number of research awards, including two Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation awards and a recent inclusion in JAR Classics issue of 18 articles that have withstood the test of time. In 2001 he was selected as one of the 10 Grand Auteurs in Marketing and later named as the 2003 recipient of the Elsevier Science Distinguished Scholar award of the Society for Marketing Advances.
In May 2004 he was awarded as Honorary Fellow of the Decade by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel). In 2009, Dr. Wind was selected as one of the 10 Legends of Marketing and in 2012 Sage will publish 8 edited volumes anthologizing his various publications.
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