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World-class branding for the interconnected modern marketplace

Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-Connected World offers authoritative guidance on building new brands, revitalizing existing brands, and managing brand portfolios in the rapidly-evolving modern marketplace. Integrating academic theories with practical experience, this book covers fundamental branding concepts, strategies, and effective implementation techniques as applied to today´s consumer, today´s competition, and the wealth of media at your disposal. In-depth discussion highlights the field´s ever-increasing connectivity, with practical guidance on brand design and storytelling, social media marketing, branding in the service sector, monitoring brand health, and more. Authored by faculty at the world´s most respected school of management and marketing, this invaluable resourceincludes expert contributions on the financial value of brands, internal branding, building global brands, and other critical topics that play a central role in real-world branding and marketing scenarios.

Creating a brand--and steering it in the right direction--is a multi-layered process involving extensive research and inter-departmental cooperation. From finding the right brand name and developing a cohesive storyline to designing effective advertising, expanding reach, maintaining momentum, and beyond, Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-Connected World arms you with the knowledge and skills to:
Apply cutting-edge techniques for brand design, brand positioning, market-specific branding, and more
Adopt successful strategies from development to launch to leveraging
Build brand-driven organizations and reinforce brand culture both internally and throughout the global marketplace
Increase brand value and use brand positioning to build a mega-brand

In today´s challenging and complex marketplace, effective branding has become a central component of success. Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-Connected World is a dynamic, authoritative resource for practitioners looking to solve branding dilemmas and seize great opportunities.

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Alice M. Tybout is the Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University´s Kellogg School of Management where she teaches courses on Marketing Management to MBA and EMBA students. She is a past chairperson of the Marketing Department and the academic director for Kellogg on Consumer Marketing Strategy and co-academic director (with Tim Calkins) for Kellogg on Branding, two executive education programs at Northwestern´s Allen Center. In addition to this work, she has edited two other Wiley-published "Kellogg on..." volumes and has published more than forty articles in scholarly journals.

She is a former President and a Fellow of the Association for Consumer Research and serves on the board of directors of RHR International. She received her BS and MA from The Ohio State University and her PhD from Northwestern University.

Tim Calkins is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University´s Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing. Tim began his marketing career at Kraft Foods, where he spent almost 11 years building brands including Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay and DiGiorno.

He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard. His latest book is How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation. He also wrote Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks and Breakthrough Marketing Plans.

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