Babson’s Levy Wins Retailing Lifetime Achievement Award from AMA
Babson marketing professor Michael Levy has earned the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association Retailing and Retail Management Special Interest Group.
Levy is the Charles Clarke Reynolds Professor of Marketing and Director of the Retail Supply Chain Institute at Babson College. He received his PhD in business administration from The Ohio State University and his undergraduate and MS degrees in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He taught at Southern Methodist University before joining the faculty as professor and chair of the marketing department at the University of Miami. He is co-author of Retailing Management, 7e; M-Marketing, 1e; and Marketing 2e (all with McGraw-Hill, Irwin). Retailing Management is the best-selling college level text of its kind in the world.
Levy has developed a strong stream of research in retailing, business logistics, financial retailing strategy, pricing, and sales management. He was rated as one of the “Best Researchers in Marketing,” in a survey published in Marketing Educator, (Summer 1997.) He has published over 50 articles in leading marketing and logistics journals, including the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Research. Levy was co-Editor of Journal of Retailing from 2001-2007. He currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics and Materials Management, European Business Review, and the Advisory Board for the International Retailing and Marketing Review. Levy has worked in retailing and related disciplines throughout his professional life. Prior to his academic career, he worked for several retailers and a housewares distributor in Colorado. He has performed research projects with many retailers and retail technology firms, including Accenture, Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s), Khimetrics, Mervyn’s, Neiman Marcus, ProfitLogic (now Oracle), and Zale Corporation.
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