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Isenberg School of Management Department of Marketing

Charles D. Schewe

Professor of Marketing

Office: SOM 221C
Phone: 413-545-5672
E-mail: schewe@mktg.umass.edu

Currently Teaching: MKTG 499J
Previously Taught: MKTG 410, MKTG 437

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972
M.B.A., University of Michigan, 1965
A.B., University of Michigan, 1964

Selected Publications:

With Paulo Cesar Motta. "Are Marketing Management Decisions Shaped During One's Coming of Age?" accepted for publication in Management Decisions, Vol. 46, No. 7, (Fall, 2008), pp. 1096-1110.

With Benny Carlson. "Age Matters: Segmenting Swedish Markets by Generational Cohorts," Revista Portuguesa de Marketing, Vol. 10, No. 18, (October, 2006), pp. 65-73.

With Geoffrey Meredith. "Segmenting global markets by generational cohort: Determining motivations by age," Journal of Consumer Behavior, Vol 4, No. 1, (October 2004), pp. 51-63.

With Stephanie Noble. “Cohort Segmentation: An Exploration of Its Validity.” Journal of Business Research, 16, no. 12 (December, 2003), pp. 979-987.

With Geoffrey Meredith. "Defining Markets, Defining Moments". New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

With Geoffrey Meredith and Alex Hiam, Managing by Defining Moments. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

With Stephanie Noble. “Market Segmentation by Cohorts: The Value and Validity of Cohorts in America and Abroad.” Journal of Marketing Management 16, no. 1 (Jan/Feb/Mar, 2000) pp.129-142.

With Geoffrey Meredith and Stephanie Noble. “Defining Moments: Segmenting by Cohorts.” Marketing Management, 9. no. 3 (Fall 2000) pg. 48-53.

With Alex Hiam. The Portable M.B.A. in Marketing. 2d ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Founder, and past president, Association for Health Care Research
Adviser for Professional Update Diploma, Executive Development Program, EFL Kunskapsutveckling, Lund, Sweden, 1996- present

Awards:

Fulbright Hays Award, University of Lund, Sweden
Findus visiting professorship, Holger Crafoord School of Economics and Management, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Isenberg School of Management Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, 2002

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Photo: Charles D. Schewe - Professor of Marketing

Research Interests:

Generational cohort segmentation in America and globally
Lifestage transitions around the world
Marketing implications of the aging of America


Teaching Interests:

Marketing intelligence
Marketing management
Consumer behavior
International marketing