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Tim Calkins is clinical professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.  He teaches marketing strategy, the most popular marketing elective in the Kellogg MBA program. Tim is co-academic director of Kellogg’s branding program, and teaches in many of Kellogg’s executive education programs including the Executive Development Program and the Kellogg Management Institute.

Tim is also co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). He received the 2006 Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the top teaching award at the Kellogg School of Management, and the 2007 Top Professor Award from Kellogg’s Executive MBA program.

In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Tim works with major corporations around the world on marketing strategy and branding issues.  His recent clients include Eli Lilly, Abbott, Bausch & Lomb and Pepsi.  Most of his consulting work is done through Class 5 Consulting, a marketing consulting firm.

Tim has been quoted in publications including Business Week, Newsweek, USA Today, Advertising Age, and The New York Times.  He has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and CNBC.

Tim received his BA from Yale University in 1987 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1991.