Gary L. Lilien is Distinguished Professor of
Management Science
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at the
Smeal College of Business
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at
Pennsylvania State University
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and is also the co-founder and research director of
Institute for the Study of Business Marketsbr>
ISBM the world's leading institution focusing on fostering research in B2B markets.
Biography
Before joining
Penn State University
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as a faculty member in 1981, Lilien was an assistant professor at the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...
. He has authored or co-authored twenty books, including the very popular ''Marketing Models'' with
Phil Kotler and
Sridhar Moorthy,
[Lilien, G.L., Kotler, P. & Moorthy, K.S., Marketing Models, Prentice Hall, 1992. ] ''Marketing Engineering'' with
Arvind Rangaswamy and most recently, ''Principles of Marketing Engineering'', with
Arvind Rangaswamy and
Arnaud De Bruyn. He has also published over 100 professional articles primarily in the areas of industrial marketing, new product development, marketing models, and bargaining theory. He was departmental editor for marketing for the journal,
''Management Science''; is on the editorial board of the ''
International Journal for Research in Marketing''; is functional editor for ''
Marketing for Interfaces'', and is area editor at ''
Marketing Science''. He was editor-in-chief of ''Interfaces'' for six years.
He is a member of
INFORMS
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, the
American Marketing Association
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The AMA was formed in from th ...
, the
Product Development and Management Association
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Founded in 1976, they currently have about 3500 members worldwide, wit ...
, and the
European Marketing Academy. He has served on the
NSF
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Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
*National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...
advisory panel for the Decision and Management Sciences program.
He is the former president as well as vice president/publications for
The Institute of Management Sciences
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. He is VP for external relations and an Inaugural Fellow of the European Marketing Academy and serves on the board of directors of the INFORMS College on Marketing. He is an inaugural INFORMS Fellow, was honored as Morse Lecturer for INFORMS and also received the
George E. Kimball Medal
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Early life
George E. Kimball was born to Arthur G. Kimball in Chic ...
for distinguished contributions to the field of operations research. The American Marketing Association announced Lilien as the 2008 recipient of the AMA Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the highest honor a marketing educator can receive. He has received honorary doctorates from the
University of Liège
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, the
University of Ghent
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Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...
and
Aston University
Aston University (abbreviated as ''Aston''. for post-nominals) is a public research university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first c ...
.
Lilien's research interests are in marketing decision support, marketing engineering, market segmentation, new product modeling and marketing-mix issues for business products, bargaining and negotiations in business markets, modeling the industrial buying process, and innovation diffusion modeling.
He consults for many companies and is principal of the Marketing Engineering consultancy, DecisionPr
More details are available at garylilien.info.
See also
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Return on marketing investment
Return on marketing investment (ROMI) is the contribution to profit attributable to marketing (net of marketing spending), divided by the marketing 'invested' or risked. ROMI is not like the other ' return-on-investment' (ROI) metrics because m ...
*
Marketing mix modeling
Marketing mix modeling (MMM) is statistical analysis such as multivariate regressions on sales and marketing time series data to estimate the impact of various marketing tactics (marketing mix) on sales and then forecast the impact of future set ...
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Marketing effectiveness
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References
External links
Profileat PSU
Fellows of the American Marketing Association
Living people
Marketing people
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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