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(born August 8, 1951) is the dean of the University of Miami School of Business at the
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in
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. He also serves as the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller university chair professor, its vice provost for executive education, the Charles Edward Wilson professor of business administration emeritus at
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, and dean emeritus of the
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in
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Early life and education

Quelch was born in
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, son of an
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officer and a nurse.Dearlove, Desmond. "Coming home: the man from Harvard." Times ondon, England26 January 1998: 3. InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Web. 9 April 2014 He began his education at a one-room schoolhouse in the
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, attended primary school in
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, then returned to
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, settling in
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and enrolling in Town Close School and later
Norwich School Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a selective English independent day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as a ...
. He received his BA and MA from
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, where he was an open scholar in modern history. At Oxford, he edited the student newspaper '' Cherwell''. As a Thouron Scholar, Quelch earned an
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from the
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at the
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. He then received a
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degree from the
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and a
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from
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.


Career

Quelch's first position in academia was as a visiting instructor at the
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. He was next appointed assistant professor at the School of Business Administration, now the
Ivey Business School Ivey Business School is a constituent unit of the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario, Canada. Ivey offers full-time undergraduate (HBA), MBA, MSc, MFE and PhD programs and also maintains two teaching facilities in Toronto ...
, at the
University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...
. In 1979, he was appointed assistant professor at
Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
. He became a tenured professor at Harvard Business School in 1988. In 1994, he was appointed Harvard Business School's Sebastian S. Kresge professor of marketing and co-chair of the university's marketing department. In 1998, Quelch was appointed dean with vice chancellor status of
London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is " ...
. During his tenure at London Business School, revenue and student enrollment increased 50 percent over three years, and faculty numbers increased 30 percent. In 2001, London Business School received the
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and was ranked the eighth best business school in the world by the ''
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.'' Quelch returned to Harvard Business School in 2001 as Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for
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, responsible for overseeing the establishment of a global network of research centers. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as senior associate dean responsible for coordinating the planning and execution of Harvard Business School's 2008 centennial celebrations. He also served as a director of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company. In 2009, Quelch was on sabbatical leave as the La Caixa Visiting Professor of International Management and chairman of the academic advisory council at the
China Europe International Business School China Europe International Business School (CEIBS; ) is a business school located in Shanghai, China. Established under an agreement between the Chinese government and the European Commission in Shanghai in November 1994, CEIBS was the first bus ...
(CEIBS), a
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
-based school co-founded by the
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and
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. From 2011 and 2013, Quelch served as dean, vice president and Distinguished Professor of International Management at the Shanghai-based institution. During his tenure at CEIBS, its ''
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'' MBA global ranking improved from 24th to 15th and its Executive MBA program ranking improved from 18th to 7th. The number of full-time faculty and CEIBS revenue both increased by one-third. Special emphasis was placed on upgrading CEIBS research output, executive education, global awareness and fundraising. Quelch returned to Harvard Business School in 2013 as the first Harvard Business School professor to hold a joint primary appointment at both Harvard Business School and the
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, where he was professor of health policy and management. Between 2013 and 2017, he also served as an associate in research at Harvard's
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, fellow of the Harvard China Fund, and a member of the Harvard China advisory board.


Miami Herbert Business School

In 2017, Quelch was appointed dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration, renamed in 2019 as the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School. He also serves as the Leonard M. Miller University Chair Professor and vice provost for executive education at the
University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...
. In October 2022, the University of Miami announced that Quelch would be stepping down from his position as dean to begin a sabbatical year in 2023.


Research and publications

Quelch's early research focused on the application of marketing to
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programs and appear in the article "Marketing Principles and the Future of Preventive Health Care" (''Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly/Health and Society'', 1980) and other papers in the ''American Journal of Clinical Nutrition'' and ''Nutrition Reviews''. Quelch later focused on how to improve the design and productivity of temporary price promotions, leading to his 1989 book, ''Sales Promotion Management'', published by
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. In the late 1980s, Quelch turned his research to the
marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...
implications of
globalization Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. The term ''globalization'' first appeared in the early 20t ...
. His research on
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was profiled in a book, ''Conversations With Marketing Masters'' (John Wiley, 2007). His books on this subject include: * ''The Global Market'' (Jossey Bass, 2005) * ''The New Global Brands: Managing Non-Governmental Organizations in the 21st Century'' (Thomson, 2006) * ''Business Solutions For The Global Poor'' (Jossey Bass, 2007) * ''Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy'' (Harvard Business Press, 2008) * ''All Business Is Local'' (Penguin/Portfolio, 2012) * ''Global Marketing Management'' (6th edition, BVT Publishing, 2017). Since 2013, Quelch has focused on patient centricity and consumer empowerment in
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and written several books on the topic, including ''Consumers, Corporations and Public Health'' (Oxford University Press, 2016), ''Building A Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business'' (
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, 2016), ''Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace'' (Springer, 2018), and ''Choice Matters'' How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions'' (Oxford University Press, 2018). Quelch's healthcare practitioner-focused articles embrace eighteen contributions in the ''
Harvard Business Review ''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. ''HBR'' is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Massach ...
''. His articles include "Bringing Customers Into The Boardroom" (''Harvard Business Review'', November 2004), "How Global Brands Compete" (''Harvard Business Review'', September 2004), "Building And Valuing Global Brands in the Nonprofit Sector", (''Nonprofit Management and Leadership'', 2007), "Governance in the Public Sector", (''Directors & Boards'', 2008), "An Exploration of Marketing's Impacts on Society: A Perspective Linked to Democracy" (''Journal of Public Policy and Marketing'', 2008), "How To Market In A Downturn" (''Harvard Business Review'', April 2009). "Can Corporate Social Responsibility Survive The Recession?" (''Leader to Leader'', 2009), and "Government Adoption of Sales Promotions: An Initial Appraisal" (''Journal of Public Policy & Marketing'', 2010). Quelch also has produced teaching materials and
innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...
s in
pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...
. His case studies have sold over four million copies, the third highest in Harvard Business School history. Quelch is among the top 40
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authors since the list began in 2016. He ranked 22nd in 2018/19, 15th in 2017/18, 13th in 2016/17 and 11th in 2015/16. He is also featured on the list of The Case Centre's all-time top authors list (covering 40 years), released in 2014. In 1995, he developed the first Harvard Business School interactive
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exercise (on
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's advertising budgeting process). In 1999, he developed and presented a series of twelve one-hour programs on marketing management for the
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. His ''Marketing Know:How'' blog, published by Harvard Business School Publishing, has been translated into
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and
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. In 2018, Quelch led an initiative to offer every student at the
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free access to ''
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'' and ''
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''. In recognition of his thought leadership, Quelch received the William L. Wilkie "Marketing for a Better World" award from the
American Marketing Association The American Marketing Association (AMA) is a professional association for marketing professionals with 30,000 members as of 2012. It has 76 professional chapters and 250 collegiate chapters across the United States. The AMA was formed in from th ...
foundation in 2020. In the same year, he received the "Alumni Award of Merit" from the
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.


Other activities

In 2002, acting Massachusetts governor
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appointed Quelch chairman of the board of the
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, responsible for overseeing three airports, waterfront real estate, and the seaport of
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. In this
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role, he chaired the security and safety committee and, later, the strategy and services committee of the
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board. He submitted his resignation to Massachusetts governor
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in January 2011. Quelch served from 2003 to 2013 as honorary consul general of the
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for the
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region. His long-standing ties to the
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led to his book, ''Business Strategies For Muslim Countries'' (
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, 2000). Quelch has governance experience as a non-executive director of public companies in the United States and the
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. In 2013, he stepped down as a non-executive director of
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, the world's largest marketing and media services company, after 25 years of service. He has served as a director of
Alere Alere Inc. was a global manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. The company was founded in 1991 and was headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. As of January 2017, the company had a market capitalization of $3.47 billion with an en ...
,
Aramark Aramark Corporation, known commonly as Aramark, is an American food service, facilities, and uniform services provider to clients in areas including education, healthcare, business, prisons, and leisure. It operates in North America (United St ...
, easyJet plc, Pentland Group plc,
Pepsi Bottling Group The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. was the world's largest bottling company, bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages. PBG sales of Pepsi-Cola beverages accounted for more than one-half of the Pepsi-Cola beverages sold in the United States and Canada and abou ...
, and
Reebok Reebok International Limited () is an American fitness footwear and clothing manufacturer that is a part of Authentic Brands Group. It was established in England in 1958 as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, a sporting goods company ...
. He is senior strategy advisor to
JD.com JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong (), internationally known as Joybuy and formerly called 360buy,
, the Chinese
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company. Quelch has served as honorary chairman of the British American Business Council of New England, as a trustee of the London-based STARS foundation and as a board member of Americans for Oxford, Accion International, and the national council of
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s. Quelch has worked as a consultant, seminar leader or conference speaker in more than sixty countries and has assisted companies, including
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,
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,
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,
Beiersdorf Beiersdorf AG is a German multinational company that manufactures and retails personal-care products and pressure-sensitive adhesives. Its brands include Elastoplast, Eucerin (makers of Aquaphor), Labello, La Prairie, Nivea, Tesa SE (Tesa t ...
,
Colgate-Palmolive Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health car ...
,
Deutsche Post The Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the world's largest courier companies. T ...
, GE, IBM,
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, Nestle,
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,
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,
Qualcomm Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...
,
SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corporation ( ar, الشركة السعودية للصناعات الأساسية), known as SABIC ( ar, سابك), is a Saudi chemical manufacturing company. 70% of SABIC's shares are owned by Saudi Aramco. It is active in ...
,
Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
,
Sinopec China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (中国石油化工股份有限公司) or Sinopec (), is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai. Sinopec Limited's parent, Sinopec Gr ...
,
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, and
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. In 2006, Quelch was named by ''
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'' as one of the "Top 25 Britons who call the shots in America". He received the annual leadership award from the British American Business Council of New England in 2008 and from the World Affairs Council of Boston in 2010. Quelch was appointed
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(CBE) in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his promotion of British business interests and prosperity. He was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020.


Memberships

Quelch is a member of the
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, the
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,
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, and the international advisory board of British American Business, Inc. He is a companion of the
British Institute of Management The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is a professional institution for management based in the United Kingdom. The major membership classes are ''Member'', ''Fellow'' - for those with significant expertise - and ''Companion'' - the most sen ...
, a fellow of the
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, a freeman of the
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and a member of the
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, an honorary fellow of both
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and Exeter College, Oxford, and a twelve time faculty fellow of the
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References


Quelch's biography on Harvard Business School site


External links


Biography at Miami Herbert Business SchoolSelection of TV interviews given by John Quelch
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