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Hubert Gatignon

Emeritus Professor of Marketing

Biography

Hubert Gatignon is the Emeritus Professor of Marketing and the Claude Janssen Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at INSEAD. He joined INSEAD in 1994 after serving as Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Université Paul Cézanne-Aix Marseille.

Hubert Gatignon’s research interests involve marketing strategy and especially, innovation strategies, as well as international marketing strategy. His publications have appeared in Communications Research; International Journal of Research in Marketing; Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Consumer Research; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Behavior, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Marketing Letters, Marketing Science, Planning Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He has recently published a two-volume book Making Innovation Last: Sustainable Strategies for Long Term Growth (Palgrave-Macmillan) and Statistical Analysis of Management Data (Kluwer Academic Publishing).

He is also a co-author of MARKSTRAT: The Strategic Marketing Simulation, ADSTRAT: An Advertising Decision Support System, and COMPTRACK: A Competitive Tracking Software. He edited New Products and Services Development (4 volumes, Sage) and co-edited The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Globalizing: Strategies for Building Successful Global Businesses.

Professor Gatignon has been an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Research in Marketing (2000-2006), Recherche et Applications en Marketing (1998-2000), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Marketing Research (2006-2016). He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Letters, Marketing Science, Recherche et Applications en Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of International Marketing. He has co-chaired the 1998 Informs Marketing Science Conference and has chaired several tracks of the American Marketing Association Winter Educators Conferences. He has served as an Academic Trustee of both the Marketing Science Institute and the AiMark (Center for Advanced International Marketing Knowledge).

Professor Gatignon served as INSEAD Dean of Faculty (1995-2001), Dean of the PhD Programme (2001-2006), Chair of the Marketing area (2011-2014), and is a member of the board of Sorbonne Universités.

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Climate Crisis: From Dreams to Hope

Hubert Gatignon

Sustainable trends in business need to focus on facts, rather than on romantic ideas about the environment.
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Economics & Finance

Viewing Healthcare Through the Lens of Economics

Hubert Gatignon

A multidisciplinary group of experts share their insights into health economics.

Marketing

How Luxury Brands Can Combat Pop-Up Fatigue

Modern-day temporary retail blurs the line between shopping and marketing – thus demanding a strategy of its own.

Responsibility

Customer Orientation Drives Environmental Innovation

Firms adopting environmental management practices are customer-oriented.
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Marketing

Manipulating Consumers is Not Marketing

Consumers increasingly view marketing as manipulation. It is important to dispel this notion and the profession should take steps to do so.
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Strategy

Should You Preannounce Your Innovation?

Before telling the world about their innovation-in-progress, companies should carefully weigh the costs and benefits.
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