Professor dominique m. hanssens
Distinguished Research Professor of Marketing UCLA Anderson School of Management
Dominique Hanssens is Distinguished Research Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. He has served as the school's faculty chair, associate dean, and marketing area chair. He served as Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute (2005-2007) and as President of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (2015-2017).
Dr. Hanssens studied applied economics at the University of Antwerp in his native Belgium. He then obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. in marketing from Purdue University. His research focuses on strategic marketing problems, in particular marketing productivity, to which he applies his expertise in data-analytic methods such as econometrics and time-series analysis. Professor Hanssens serves or has served as an area editor for Marketing Science and an associate editor for Management Science and the Journal of Marketing Research. His papers have appeared in the leading academic and professional journals in marketing, economics and statistics.
Professor Hanssens won distinguished teaching awards in the UCLA MBA and Executive MBA programs. In 2003 he was awarded the UCLA Anderson School’s Neidorf ‘decade’ teaching award, in 2007 he was the recipient of the Churchill Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Marketing Association, in 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, and in 2013 he received the AMA Mahajan Award for Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research. In 2015 the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science gave him the Buck Weaver Award for lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.
Professor Hanssens' consulting experience covers strategic marketing problems such as assessing the economic effects of marketing, allocating marketing resources and growing customer and brand equity. His approach emphasizes market-response modeling on sophisticated customer and marketing databases. He has conducted assignments for Agilent Technologies, British Telecom, Disney, Google, Hewlett Packard, Hughes, Johnson & Johnson, Mattel Toys, Mercedes, Microsoft, Schwab and Wells Fargo, among others. He is a founding partner of MarketShare, a global marketing analytics firm headquartered in Los Angeles.