{"id":1197,"date":"2024-05-28T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/people\/koen-pauwels\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:15:47","slug":"koen-pauwels","status":"publish","type":"dmsb_person","link":"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/people\/koen-pauwels\/","title":{"rendered":"Koen Pauwels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Koen Pauwels is Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University, Boston and co-director of its Digital, Analytics, Technology and Automation (DATA) Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pauwels is the Senior Editor for the Journal of Marketing and the International Journal of Research in Marketing, President-Elect of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association, and Vice President of Practice at the INFORMS Association for Marketing Science. He serves on the House of Marketing's Board and on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Retailing and Journal of Interactive Marketing. Pauwels started the annual Marketing Dynamics conference (2004) to bring together researchers fascinated by dynamic problems in marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pauwels consulted large and small companies across three continents, including Amazon, Heinz, Kayak, Kraft, Marks &amp; Spencer, Microsoft, Nissan, Sony, Tetrapak and Unilever. Typical projects include evaluating and improving marketing effectiveness, designing and interpreting field experiments, combining attribution with marketing mix modeling, integrating online with offline marketing and metrics, increasing long-term brand equity and assessing and renovating business models. He regularly blogs on return on marketing investment as @profpauwels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pauwels received his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he was chosen \u201cTop 100 Inspirational Alumnus\u201d out of 37,000 graduates. After getting tenure at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (2001-2008), Pauwels helped build the startup Ozyegin University in Istanbul (2008-2017) and was visiting scholar at Harvard Business School in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pauwels' books include \u2018Modeling Markets' and \u2018Advanced Methods for Modeling Markets' for researchers and \u201cIt's Not the Size of the Data \u2013 It's How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards\u201d for managers (<a href=\"http:\/\/notsizedata.com\/\">http:\/\/notsizedata.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pauwels published over 70 articles on marketing effectiveness, awarded by both managers and academics and all available at <a href=\"http:\/\/marketingandmetrics.com\/\">marketingandmetrics.com<\/a>. Publications outlets include J<em>ournal of Marketing, Management Science, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Harvard Business Review <\/em>and<em> Sloan Management Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards &amp; recognition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winner of the \u201807 William F. 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