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Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing

Faculty Director, Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg

Portrait of Florian Zettelmeyer, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Florian Zettelmeyer is the Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also founded and directs the Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg, the school's Analytics and AI initiative. 

Prior to his appointment at Kellogg he was an Associate Professor of Marketing and chair of the marketing group at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Before his Ph.D., he briefly worked in consulting at McKinsey and Company's German office. 

Professor Zettelmeyer specializes in evaluating the effects of analytics and AI on firms. In recent years he has focused on the AdTech industry, in particular on how to improve advertising measurement. Before that Professor Zettelmeyer has extensively studied the auto industry as a laboratory to understand the effects of customer information, investigating the effect of the Internet, the passthrough and effectiveness of promotions, and what consumers' online journeys predict about their purchase behavior.   

Professor Zettelmeyer teaches the MBA elective "Customer Analytics," a key analytics course at the Kellogg School of Management. The has received numerous teaching awards and been voted "Outstanding Professor of the Year" by Kellogg MBA students. He also co-directs Kellogg's "Leading with Advanced Analytics and AI" executive education course for senior leaders. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). 

In addition to being a chaired professor at Kellogg, Professor Zettelmeyer is a senior science leader at Amazon. He leads the Advertising Economics organization, whose function it to use data science and economics to come up with disruptive ideas for the Amazon advertising business. 

Professor Zettelmeyer received a Vordiplom in business engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Warwick (UK) and a Ph.D. in marketing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

About Florian
Research interests
  • Marketing analytics
  • digital advertising
  • marketing implications of consumer search and uncertainty
  • industrial organization
  • pricing
  • Internet
  • environmental economics
Teaching interests
  • Customer Analytics
  • Leading with Advanced Analytics and AI
  • PhD, 1996, Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Vordiplom, 1992, Business Engineering, University of Karlsruhe
    MS, 1991, Economics, University of Warwick
  • Director, Program for Data Analytics at Kellogg, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2013-present
    Nancy L. Ertle Chair in Marketing, Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2012-present
    J. L. and Helen Kellogg Chair in Marketing, Professor, Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2008-present
    Professor, Marketing, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, 2008
    Chair, Marketing Group, Marketing, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, 2006-2008
    Associate Professor, Marketing, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, 2003-2008
    Assistant Professor, Marketing, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, 1998-2003
    Assistant Professor, Marketing, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, 1996-1997
  • John D.C. Little award for best paper in Marketing Science, INFORMS, 2019
    2021 Sales SIG Excellence in Research Award, American Marketing Association, 2021
    Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Managment, 2018-2019
    Kellogg Nota Bene Speaker for MBA Programs
    Kellogg Nota Bene Speaker for MBA Programs
    Kellogg Nota Bene Speaker for MBA Programs
    Sid Levy Teaching Award, Kellog School of Management, 2017-2018
    Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2017-2018
    Finalist for L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management
    Certificate of Teaching Impact Award, Kellogg School of Management, Winter 2017
    Kellogg Nota Bene Speaker for Part-Time Program, Kellogg School of Management, 2014-2015
    Certificate of Teaching Impact Award, Kellogg School of Management, Winter 2015
    Impact Award, Kellogg
    Impact Award for teaching excellence, Kellogg School of Management, 2014
    Nota Bene, Kellogg
    Sid Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg
    Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for teaching excellence in elective classes, Kellogg School of Management, 2013
    Faculty Commencement Address to Graduating Class 2011, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
    L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
    Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2010-2011, 2008-2009
    Impact Award for teaching excellence, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
    Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Nominee for excellence, Kellogg School of Management, 2010
    Impact Award for teaching excellence, Kellogg School of Management, 2010
  • Co-Editor, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2014-2018
    Associate Editor, Management Science, 2009-2019
    Associate Editor, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2007-2013
    Associate Editor, Quantitative Marketing and Economics
    Editorial Board Member, Marketing Science
    Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marketing Research
    Ad-hoc Reviewer, American Economic Review
    Associate Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
    Ad-hoc Reviewer, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Topics in Quantitative Marketing (MKTG-552-0)

This seminar required of 2nd-4th year students exposes students to working papers in current areas of active research. Students read, present, and discuss recent papers with the goal of improving their ability to evaluate a paper's academic contribution and managerial relevance and to further extend their knowledge of models and methods.