Florian Zettelmeyer
Kellogg School of Management, Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing, Faculty Director, Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg, and Chair of Marketing Department
Florian Zettelmeyer is the Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also founded and directs the Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg, the school's Big Data and Analytics initiative.
Professor Zettelmeyer specializes in evaluating the effects of information technology and big data on firms. More generally, his work addresses how the information consumers have about firms, and vice versa, affect firm behavior. He has extensively studied the auto industry as a laboratory to understand the effects of customer information, investigating the effect of the Internet, the passthrough and effectiveness of promotions, and what consumers' online journeys predict about their purchase behavior.
He has received numerous teaching awards and been voted "Outstanding Professor of the Year" by Kellogg MBA students. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Professor Zettelmeyer received a degree in business engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Warwick (UK) and a Ph.D. in marketing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.