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Don Sexton

Professor Emeritus of Business
Marketing Division
Professor Emeritus of Business
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Don Sexton
Areas of Expertise
Brand and Product Management, Decision Making & Negotiations, Globalization, Marketing, Strategy
Contact
Office: 316 Uris
Phone: (212) 8543477
E-mail: des5@columbia.edu

Professor Sexton’s research concerns successful global product and brand strategies and is based on both empirical work and his considerable experience with companies throughout the world. A recipient of the School’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Sexton has taught a wide variety of courses in the fields of marketing, international business and management science.

Education
BA, Wesleyan, 1963; MBA, University of Chicago, 1965; PhD, 1970
Joined CBS
1966

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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Maximizing the Value of a Business: Using the Right Metrics.”
Business and Economics Journal
vol. 5, (January 01, 2014): 1000e102.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Organizing for Marketing ROI.”
Effective Executive
vol. 13, (December 01, 2010): 60-64.
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Sexton, Don, Kamal Sen, and Venu Gorti. “Determining Marketing Accountability.”
Journal of Marketing Trends
vol. 1, (October 01, 2010): 39-45.
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Sexton, Don. “Be Precisely Effective, Part II.”
Strategic Marketing
vol. 1, (September 15, 2010): 30-33.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Be Precisely Effective, Part I.”
Strategic Marketing
vol. 1, (July 15, 2010): 30-32.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Competing with Customer Value Added.”
Effective Executive
vol. 13, (February 01, 2010): 44-47.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “What's Your Marketing ROI?”
Strategic Marketing
vol. 1, (January 10, 2010): 26-28.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Achieving Marketing Nirvana.”
The Advertiser (an ANA publication)
vol. N/A, (July 15, 2009): 18.
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Sexton, Don. “Branding: Get Your Basics Right.”
Oman Economic Review
vol. N/A, (August 01, 2005): 38-39.
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Sexton, Don. “Building the Brand Scorecard.”
The Advertiser
vol. N/A, (February 01, 2005): 54-58.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “Building Global Brands.”
The Advertiser
vol. N/A, (June 01, 1997): 40-43.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “A Cluster Analytic Approach to Market Response Functions.”
Journal of Marketing Research
vol. 11, (February 01, 1974): 109-14.
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Journal Article
Sexton, Don. “A Microeconomic Model of the Effects of Advertising.”
<a href="http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/jbusiness/about.html">The Journal of Business</a>
vol. 45, (January 01, 1972): 29-41.
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Working Paper
Sexton, Don and Shailendra Ghorpadeh. Marketing Cubed: The New Marketing Revolution. January 31, 2011.
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Working Paper
Sexton, Don. Branding Strategies and Tactics of Chinese and Indian Firms. September 24, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Sexton, Don. “Sustaining China's Growth: The Role of Branding.” The Analyst. May 01, 2010.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Sexton, Don. “Should Your Brand Be Global?” Chazen Web Journal of International Business. January 01, 2004.
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Book
Sexton, Don. Value Above Cost: Driving Superior Financial Performance with CVA, the Most Important Metric You've Never Used. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing/Pearson Education, 2009.
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Book
Sexton, Don. Branding 101: How to Build the Most Valuable Asset of Any Business. Hoboken N.J.: Wiley, 2008.
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Book
Sexton, Don. Marketing 101: How to Use the Most Powerful Ideas in Marketing to Get More Customers and Keep Them. Hoboken N.J.: Wiley, 2006.
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Book
Clark, William A. and Don Sexton. Marketing and Management Science. Homewood IL: Irwin, 1970.
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Chapter
Sexton, Don. “Building China's Global Brands.” In Brand Management in Emerging Markets: Theories and Practices, edited by Chong Lu Wang, China: 2014.
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Chapter
Sexton, Don, Kamal Sen, and Venu Gorti. “Determining Marketing Accountability: Applying Economics and Finance to Marketing.” In Proceedings of 9th International Marketing Trends Conference, edited by Jean-Claude Andreani, Paris: International Marketing Trends Conference, 2009.
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Case ID
102001

Hyundai (A, B, C, and D)

After a Korean automaker experiences a US sales decline amid a reputation for poor quality, how can it overcome its early missteps?

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