David C. Schmittlein (born 1955) is an American academic administrator serving as the John C Head III

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and Professor of Marketing at the

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. He was appointed on August 27, 2007. Prior to joining MIT, Schmittlein was the Ira A. Lipman Professor and Professor of Marketing at the

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Education

Schmittlein is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. He earned an AB in mathematics from Brown University in 1977 and received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in business from Columbia Business School in 1979 and 1980, respectively.

Career

Schmittlein was formerly a professor of marketing at the

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of the

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and chair of the editorial board for

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. He joined MIT in 2007 as the first dean of the Sloan School of Management since 1966 to be recruited from outside the university. In 2015, Schmittlein joined the board of CIGNEX Datamatics, an

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company based in

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References

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