Biography
David A. Schweidel is Professor of Marketing at Emory Universityâs Goizueta Business School. Schweidel received his B.A. in mathematics, M.A. in statistics, and Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously on the faculty of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgetown Universityâs McDonough School of Business.
Schweidel is an expert in the areas of customer relationship management and social media analytics. His research focuses on the development and application of statistical models to understand customer behavior and inform managerial decisions. His research has appeared in leading business journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and Management Science. His research has garnered numerous awards, including the Gaumnitz Junior Faculty Research Award from the Wisconsin School of Business and the Marketing Science Instituteâs Buzzell Award. He has been recognized as a leading scholar by the Marketing Science Instituteâs Young Scholar and Scholar programs, and by Poets and Quantâs âTop 40 Under 40.â Based on his research, he has consulted for companies including EBay, HP Labs and General Motors.
Schweidel is the author of Social Media Intelligence (Cambridge University Press) in which he and his co-author discuss how organizations can leverage social media data to inform their marketing strategies. He is also the author of Profiting from the Data Economy (Pearson FT Press), in which he details the value of businesses tapping into consumer data for both individuals and companies.
Education
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Ph.D. in MarketingThe Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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M.Sc. in StatisticsThe Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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B.A. in Mathematics, Economics and Actuarial MathematicsUniversity of Pennsylvania
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The role of slant and message consistency in political advertising effectiveness: evidence from the 2016 presidential election
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How consumer digital signals are reshaping the customer journey
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