Kevin Lane Keller

Kevin Lane Keller Profile

Dartmouth professor and researcher, Kevin Lane Keller is an international leader in the study of brands, branding, and strategic brand management. Actively involved with industry, 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 SAB Miller. As a speaker he offers a wide range of perspectives and insights on the topic of branding due to his broad experience collaborating with an extensive range of companies.

Professor Keller teaches courses on marketing management and strategic brand management at the Tucker School of Business’s MBA program, which is ranked the number one business program in the world by both the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. While he has published over sixty highly influential papers, his best-known work is Strategic Brand Management, a widely used text that’s been deemed “the bible of brand management.”

Professor Keller’s current research examines marketing planning, programs, and processes; strategies and tactics to build, measure, and manage brand equity; design, implementation, and evaluation of integrated marketing communication programs. Due to his reputation as a consultant and frequently cited academic publications, he is one of the most sought-out speakers in his field.

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  Kevin Lane Keller 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 strategic brand management and lectures in executive programs on that topic.

  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. His specific research interest is in how understanding theories and concepts 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 sixty published papers, his research has been widely cited and has received numerous awards.

  Professor Keller is acknowledged as one of the international leaders in the study of brands, branding, and strategic brand management. Actively involved with industry, he has worked on a variety 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 SAB Miller. Additional brand consulting activities have been with other top companies such as Allstate, Beiersdorf (Nivea), BlueCross BlueShield, Campbells, Eli Lilly, ExxonMobil, General Mills, Goodyear, Kodak, Mayo Clinic, Nordstrom, Shell Oil, Starbucks, Unilever, and Young & Rubicam. He has also served as an academic trustee for the Marketing Science Institute. A popular speaker, he has conducted marketing seminars for top executives in a variety of forums.

  Professor Keller is currently conducting a number of studies that address strategies to build, measure, and manage brand equity. 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.” As of the 12th edition, he is also the co-author with Philip Kotler of the all-time best selling introductory marketing textbook, Marketing Management.

  An avid sports, music, and film enthusiast, in his so-called spare time, he has served 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. He is also on the Board of Directors for The Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism. Professor Keller lives in Etna, NH with his wife, Punam (also a Tuck marketing professor), and his two daughters, Carolyn and Allison.