Albert Haring Symposium for Doctoral Research in Marketing

PARTNER ORGANIZATION: Indiana University

The 2023 Haring Symposium, hosted by the Kelley School of Business, will be held on April 14 and 15, 2023 on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. The Haring Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their latest research, receive detailed, constructive feedback from their peers, and network with students and faculty from other leading universities. Participation is by invitation only.

The Symposium was initiated in 1971 to honor then retiring Professor Albert Haring. Dr. Haring, a past president of the AMA and outstanding scholar in the areas of sales management, channels, and credit, devoted the majority of his long career to the personal and professional development of doctoral students in Marketing. As we prepare to host this year’s Annual Haring Symposium, we are very gratified that the event’s long term success continues to honor this gentleman who contributed enormously to our profession.

The Department of Marketing at Indiana University hosts a number of visiting speakers and seminars throughout the year. Each spring they host the Albert Haring Symposium for Doctoral Research in Marketing. The Sheth Foundation provides funding for this Symposium.

Winners

The first individual is the keynote speaker, and the next 2 or 3 depending on the year are the Haring-Sheth Distinguished Scholars.

2023

Bernd Schmitt
Joann Peck

Haring-Sheth Distinguished Scholars

Tulin Erdem
Leonard N. Stern Professor of Business
Professor of Marketing
Chair, Marketing Department
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Vanitha Swaminathan
Thomas Marshall Professor of Marketing
Director, Katz Center for Branding
University of Pittsburgh, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration

2022
Kristin Diehl
Avi Goldfarb

2021
Christine Moorman
Dina Mayzlin
Page Moreau
Donald R. Lehmann

2020
J. Jeffrey Inman
Andrew Stephen
Juanjuan Zhang

2019
K. Sudhir
Claudia Townsend
A. Parasuraman

2018
Rajdeep Grewal
Kelly Haws
Puneet Manchanda

2017
V. Kumar
David Bell
Raj Raghunathan

2016
Darren Dahl
Katherine Lemon
Michel Wedel

2015
John Lynch
Fred Feinberg
Sandy Jap

2014
Robert (Bob) Meyer
David Mick
Vishal Singh

2013
Gary Frazier
Akshay Rao
Olivier Toubia

2012
Preyas Desai
Rebecca Hamilton
Don Lehmann
Aradhna Krishna

2011
Pradeep Chintagunta
Sha Yang
Rajdeep Grewal
Page Moreau

2010
Ruth Bolton
Yuxin Chen
V. Kumar
Susan Broniarczyk

2009
Ajay Kohli
Baohong Sun
Vikas Mittal
Rebecca Ratner

2008
Eric Bradlow
Sachin Gupta
Ajay Kohli
Debbie MacInnis

2007
Joel Huber
Greg Allenby
Alan Cooke
Chris Moorman

2006
John Deighton
Neeraj Arora
Sharon Shavitt

Professor Bowman is an accomplished researcher in the quantitative aspects of marketing with a substantive focus in the areas of marketing strategy and customer relationship management.

His research has been published in journals that include the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing, articles based on his research have appeared in a number of newspapers and business magazines including the Economist, and he has appeared on television such as CNN and MS-NBC to discuss topics related to marketing strategies and tactics and consumer trends, to name a few. His research into the evolution of customer preferences in a new market won the AMA’s Green Award for the paper published in JMR deemed to have the greatest potential to contribute significantly to the practice of marketing research and research in marketing. Bowman is on the editorial boards of a number of the leading marketing journals; is past-president of AMA’s Market Insights Council; chaired Emory’s University Research Council; and, has chaired major research conferences including the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference (twice) and the AMA’s Advanced Research Techniques Forum.

Bowman’s recent teaching includes courses in product and brand management, and the analysis of marketing data. His teaching has been recognized in multiple ways including the Adler Prize, which honors teaching quality, course innovation and relevance to real-world problem solving in all Goizueta Business School programs over a 3 year period, and the Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory University’s highest teaching honor. While at Purdue University, he was the business school’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher four years in a row.

He has served as Area Coordinator for Marketing, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, Senior Associate Dean for Working Professionals MBA Programs, and was founding co-director of the Emory Marketing Analytics Center.

He has executive education and consulting experience in areas related to marketing analytics and research, product and brand management, consumer behavior, new product development, and marketing strategy with firms ranging from Cox Communications to Coca-Cola to Eli Lilly to Group BMW to International Paper to Invensys to Whirlpool, and he has served as an expert witness in litigation.

Outside of Emory, he enjoys running, fitness, and scoring a goal or two for his men’s ice hockey team.

Mission

The mission of the Sheth Foundation is to promote the development of marketing scholarship by focusing on three areas:

Knowledge Creation – the generation of new marketing insights and scholarship
Knowledge Recognition – includes awards, grants and other activities designed to express appreciation and elevate the contributions of individual academics
Knowledge Dissemination – the communication or distribution of insights on new and emerging marketing topics within the field of marketing and business

The Sheth Foundation supports various organizations, awards and events that fulfill these goals.

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Founder’s Welcome

When we started the Sheth Foundation in 1991, our aim was to help influence future generations of marketing professionals. But we also sought to inspire innovation in the field of marketing.

We found that the recipient organizations, those organizations through which Sheth Foundation grants are awarded, were the closest to the thinkers and researchers who add value to the marketing discipline. In considering the success of this organization, we, along with the invaluable Board of Directors determined that these Recipient Organizations should evaluate and identify the brightest minds in the field.

We are delighted to find that our continuing goal of advancing in the field of marketing and related areas is being achieved through the promotion of knowledge, sustained academic scholarship, and research innovation.

– Jagdish & Madhu Sheth

Foundation Leadership

The Sheth Foundation is fortunate to count globally recognized marketing scholars as members of its dedicated, volunteer Board. These individuals hold Professor and Endowed Chair positions at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. The current members include:

Current Board Members

Advisory Committee

Emeritus Board Members

Persons who have previously served on the Board of Directors for The Sheth Foundation include:

Jackie Thomas
Kent Monroe
Barbara Kahn
Linda Price
Richard Lutz
Madhu Viswanathan.
Lawrence Feick, Ph.D. (1991-2005, 2007-2012)
George Day (2000 – 2005)
Tomas Hult (2010 – 2019)
Dawn Iacobucci (2007 – 2009)
Deborah MacInnis, Ph.D. (2011 – 2013)
Tom Mentzer (1991 – 2003)
Robert (Bob) Peterson (2001 – 2009)
Madhu Sheth (2007 – 2011)
William (Bill) Sturtevant (1991 – 2011)
Seymour Sudman (1993 – 2000)
Vernon Zimmerman (1991 – 1993)

This award, funded by the Sheth Foundation, is presented once every three years to honor the long-term contribution of an article that appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research. Each winner receives a plaque and a financial award.

The following Sheth Foundation board members have been listed in the published list of the world’s top 2% most-cited researchers across all disciplines, according to research conducted by the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (list of scientists and the article on the study at PLOS) (Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020).