Professor Benson P. Shapiro was awarded an honorary doctorate
from the Department of Marketing and Communication
of the Athens University of Economics and Business

The Department of Marketing & Communication of the Athens University of Economics & Business has bestow on Professor Benson P. Shapiro the title of Doctor honoris causa, in order to express its deep appreciation for his valuable contribution and continuous achievements in marketing teaching, research and practice.

Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business School where he taught full-time from 1970 to 1997. He continues to teach there in several executive programs including the CEO Program, Young Presidents’ Program and Business Marketing Strategy, and currently chairs the Sustainable Marketing Leadership for Mid-Sized Firms Program. 

His work, which includes 19 articles in the Harvard Business Review, has a very large number of citations. It is cited in the most prestigious journals and textbooks of marketing by the most renowned researchers of this field.

It was with some sadness that we said goodbye to Professor Adamantios Diamantopoulos earlier this year: however, we wish him all the best fortune in his new post as Chair of International Marketing at the University of Vienna.

We have appointed Professor Kalyan Raman as Professor of Marketing. Professor Raman has held posts at the University of Michigan (Flint), University of Florida (Gainesville), AT & T Bell Labs, and Auburn University (Auburn), and has been a Visiting Professor at WHU Koblenz, Germany and at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Professor Raman's recent and ongoing research is in integrated marketing communications, and he has articles published (or forthcoming) in the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Marketing Letters, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, and Management Science, among others.

Also, John W. Cadogan, until recently a reader in marketing in the Business School, was awarded a Personal Chair and the title of Professor of Marketing in October 2004. Professor Cadogan is the Coordinator of Research for marketing and retailing in the Business School. His work focuses on international marketing and marketing strategy, and he has articles published (or forthcoming) in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal of Research in Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, and Industrial Marketing Management, among others.

The search for another senior appointment to join the team is ongoing!

We are proud to welcome two new colleagues in the Marketing Subject Group at the Birmingham University Business School.

Professor Douglas West joined as Professor of Marketing and Deputy Head of the Marketing Subject Group.  He has published widely on marketing and advertising and holds positions on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Advertising Research.  Douglas is Editor of the International Journal of Advertising.  His research has focused on risk and creativity in marketing communications.

Dr Sheena Leek, joined as a Lecturer in Marketing.  She is currently working as part of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing group on a project investigating business to business relationships in the current environment and the influence of various changes, such as IT.

Professor Suzanne C. Beckmann, Copenhagen Business School, has been appointed Associate Dean for CBS's new executive Master of Corporate Communication (MCC). The MCC programme is designed to meet the requirements of an increasing executive awareness in private and public organizations of the need to integrate communication functions with all the other strategic management tasks. MCC is highly relevant for all the different strategic units in organizations, which deal with internal and external communication in a strategic perspective or which are part of cross-functional teams focusing on communication. The programme reflects a growing need, both nationally and internationally, for integrating strategic management, marketing and intercultural insights in order to engage in a fruitful dialogue with the diversity of stakeholders that organizations are confronted with today. The pioneer class starts in January 2005 and the programme will be taught in English, hence it is open to international participants. Particular emphasis is put on executive coaching throughout the whole programme (part-time, 2 years). For more information see http://www.mcc.cbs.dk.

Dr. Suzanne C. Beckmann
Professor / Associate Dean
Copenhagen Business School
Dept. of Intercultural Communication and Management
Dalgas Have 15
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone +45 3815 3202
Fax +45 3815 3840

Phil Harris, Past chairman of the UK Academy of Marketing, founding Joint editor of the Journal of Public affairs and member of the AMA Global Marketing SIG is moving to the Department of Marketing at Otago Business School from 1st July. Phil who has been at Manchester Metropolitan University for 17 years said that the opportunity to build-up and development one of the best marketing departments in probably one of the most beautiful countries in the world was irresistable. Phil is most famous for his work in Political Marketing and is actively researching and watching campaigns in the US, Europe and now Australasia. His latest book just published is European Business & Marketing with Frank MacDonald and published by Sage.His new address is

Professor Phil Harris,
Department of Marketing,
University of Otago,
Dunedin, PO Box 56,
New Zealand

email: Pharris@business.otago.ac.nz

The move into the new building, University House has finally happened. Instead of being scattered over four buildings we are now in one, even if it did cost almost £15 million. Professor Leslie de Chernatony has taken over as Marketing Subject Group Head. Dr Helen White has taken on the responsibilty of Director of the MSc Marketing programme. Meanwhile, Professor Stan Paliwoda is leaving to take up a Chair at Strathclyde; Dr Chris Hackley is leaving to take up a Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London and Malcom Kirkup is leaving to take up the post of Professorial Fellow at Lancaster University Management School.

SIM: Società Italiana di Marketing

A new marketing organisation is now present in Europe: SIM (Società Italiana di Marketing). SIM brings together marketing faculty (professors, phd students, post graduate students, etc.) as well as professionals (consultants, managers, etc.) in Italy and abroad. Its main goal is to promote marketing research, training and professional services. SIM has been founded in November 2003 and actual members are around 300. In the near future the following website will be activated: www.simktg.it. More information and requests can be addressed to:

Daniele Dalli
SIM National Coordinator

Società Italiana di Marketing
Scuola Superiore S. Anna
Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33
I - 56125 Pisa
tel. +39 050 883838
fax. +39 050 883839
simkt@sssup.it

As  of  February  1,  2004, Dr. Wolfgang Ulaga has joined ESCP-EAP European School  of  Management  Paris-Oxford-Madrid-Berlin-Torino  as  an associate professor  of  marketing.  For  the  past  two years he has been a visiting associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and, prior to that,  an  associate  professor  of  marketing  and  head  of department of marketing at EDHEC School of Management in France. Earlier in his career he worked for five years in an international management consultancy in Germany
and France.

Dr.  Ulaga's  research  interests  are  in the areas of business marketing, buyer-supplier   relationships,   customer   value  measurement,  strategic marketing   decision-making,   and  international  consumer  behavior.  His research  has  been  published in international journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, the Journal  of  Business-to-Business  Marketing,  and  the Journal of Services Marketing.  He  has co-authored a book on Value-Based Management. Dr. Ulaga is a member of the editorial advisory board of Qualitative Market Research: An  International Journal.

He can be reached at ESCP-EAP European-School of Management, 79 avenue de la République, 75543 Paris Cedex 11, France, Phone
+33.1.49.23.26.22, Fax +33.1.49.23.22.48, e-mail: wulaga@escp-eap.net

The Marketing Group at Birmingham Business School, the University of Birmingham has enjoyed a year of expansion and activity. The Group now has its largest contingent ever and hopes to grow still further in line with the future expansion plans for the School. Dr Helen White is the most recent new appointee. Dr White joins from Cranfield University. Professor Stan Paliwoda recently stood down after three distinguished years as Head of the Marketing Group and was succeeded by Dr Chris Hackley. Dr Hackley also continues as Director of the MSc Marketing. Recent distinguished visitors to the Group’s home at Winterbourne House include Professor Michael Thomas OBE, who is the new External Examiner for the Group’s highly successful full-time MSc in Marketing. Another recent distinguished visitor was Professor Arthur J. Kover, former editor of the Journal of Advertising Research and currently Research Fellow in Management at Yale University, USA. Marketing Group details and activities can be accessed at www.bham.ac.uk/business