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Kellogg on Branding: Creating, Building, and Rejuvenating Your Brand

Use Strategic Branding to Your Advantage

Professor Tim CalkinsCompanies around the globe are recognizing the importance of having a strong, differentiated brand. A powerful, unique brand can be an incredibly important asset; a good brand can create customer loyalty and name recognition strong enough to overcome intense competition. Creating a strong brand isn’t easy.

In this program, the Kellogg School of Management’s faculty provides an intensive look into brand management in a collaborative learning environment. Combining the latest thinking on this topic with practical exercises, this program will inspire you to implement a strategy that will leverage your brand for increased customer loyalty, competitive advantage, and profitability.


Upcoming Sessions (Fee includes lodging and most meals)
Session Date Cost
September 29 - October 4, 2013 $9,900 Apply
May 15-18, 2014 $9,900 Apply
October 5-10, 2014 $9,900 Apply

Program Materials

This program is designed for managers who have brand management responsibility in their organizations. The program is also useful for those who wish to expand their understanding of the importance of brands and effective brand management strategies.
In this program, you will learn to:
  1. Understand why brands matter and how brands create value
  2. Appreciate the challenges companies face in branding
  3. Create a brand positioning and manage a portfolio of brands
  4. See why internal branding is critical and review best practices
  5. Explore the latest thinking on measuring brand value, global branding and capitalizing on the new world of media
Branding Basics
  1. The Power of Brands
  2. Challenges for Managers

Creating a Brand
  1. Brand Positioning
  2. Brand Design

Brand Strategy
  1. Portfolio Strategy
  2. Growth Strategy

Creating a Brand-Focused Organization
  1. Internal Branding
  2. Engaging Employees

Special Topics in Branding
  1. Brand Valuation
  2. Global Branding
  3. Dealing with New Media
Timothy Calkins - Academic Director; Clinical Professor of Marketing

Alice Tybout - Academic Director; Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing

Bobby Calder - Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Cultural Marketing; Co-Director of MMM Program

Gregory Carpenter - James Farley/Booz Allen Hamilton Professor of Marketing Strategy; Director of the Center for Market Leadership; Faculty Director, Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative (KMCI)

Lisa A Fortini-Campbell - Lecturer of Executive Programs

Eric Leininger - Clinical Associate Professor; Associate Director, Center for Market Leadership

Don Schultz - Professor Emeritus of Integrated Marketing Communications, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Featured Faculty Video

  •   Professor Tim Calkins: How global competition and the explosion of information impact brands

What Past Participants Say

  • "Discussions on branding and the successes and failures in the industry have provided new insight into strategies for the future."
    - Director, Brand Marketing Litehouse, Inc.
  • "This program is revolutionary, challenging, and comforting. I learned many new concepts and ideas and feel secure in applying them."
    -Marketing and Communications Manager, Rx America
  • "This program does an excellent job of discussing the importance of branding and how critical the details of a company's strategy relate to the brand."
    - Brand Marketing Manager Pella Corporation

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