Aaker on Branding

David Aaker, the Vice-Chairman of Prophet Brand Strategy and Professor Emeritus of Marketing Strategy at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, is the winner of three career awards for contributions to the science of marketing (Paul D. Converse Award), marketing strategy (Vijay Mahajan Award), and the theory and practice of marketing (Buck Weaver Award). He has published more than 100 articles and 17 books that have sold well over one million copies and been translated into eighteen languages. They include Managing Brand Equity, Building Strong Brands, Brand Leadership (co-authored with Erich Joachimsthaler) Brand Portfolio Strategy, From Fargo to the World of Brands, Spanning Silos, Strategic Market Management 10th edition, Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant which was named to three best book lists for 2011, and Three Threats to Brand Relevance. Named as one of the top five most important marketing/business gurus in 2007, Professor Aaker has won awards for the best article in the California Management Review and (twice) in the Journal of Marketing. A recognized authority on brand strategy, he has been an active consultant and speaker throughout the world. A columnist for AMA’s Marketing News and Germany’s absatzwirtschaft, he regularly blogs at davidaaker.com and HBR.org. He is at twitter.com/davidaaker. An avid biker and struggling golfer, he lives in Orinda California.