Biography

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.

Research Interests

Summer 2017
Marketing Plans Workshop (EMBA)

Fall 2016
Managerial Statistics (EMBA)

Summer 2016
Marketing Plans Workshop (EMBA)

Spring 2016
Managerial Statistics (EMBA)

Fall 2015
Managerial Statistics (EMBA)

Summer 2015
Marketing Plans Workshop (EMBA)

Spring 2015
Managerial Statistics (EMBA)

Columbia Caseworks cases

Hyundai (A, B, C, and D) (2010)

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Courses Taught

Journal articles

Maximizing the Value of a Business: Using the Right Metrics In Business and Economics Journal (2014)
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Organizing for Marketing ROI In Effective Executive (2010)
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Determining Marketing Accountability In Journal of Marketing Trends (2010)
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Be Precisely Effective, Part II In Strategic Marketing (2010)
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Be Precisely Effective, Part I In Strategic Marketing (2010)
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Competing with Customer Value Added In Effective Executive (2010)
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What’s Your Marketing ROI? In Strategic Marketing (2010)
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Achieving Marketing Nirvana In The Advertiser (an ANA publication) (2009)
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Branding: Get Your Basics Right In Oman Economic Review (2005)
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Building the Brand Scorecard In The Advertiser (2005)
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Building Global Brands In The Advertiser (1997)
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A Cluster Analytic Approach to Market Response Functions In Journal of Marketing Research (1974)
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A Microeconomic Model of the Effects of Advertising In The Journal of Business (1972)
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Books

Value Above Cost: Driving Superior Financial Performance with CVA, the Most Important Metric You’ve Never Used (2009)
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Branding 101: How to Build the Most Valuable Asset of Any Business (2008)
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Marketing 101: How to Use the Most Powerful Ideas in Marketing to Get More Customers and Keep Them (2006)
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Marketing and Management Science (1970)
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Chapters

Building China’s Global Brands In Brand Management in Emerging Markets: Theories and Practices (2014)
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Determining Marketing Accountability: Applying Economics and Finance to Marketing In Proceedings of 9th International Marketing Trends Conference (2009)
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Web-only articles

Should Your Brand Be Global? In Chazen Web Journal of International Business (2004)
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Working papers

Marketing Cubed: The New Marketing Revolution (2011)
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Branding Strategies and Tactics of Chinese and Indian Firms (2010)
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Academic Background

In The Media

Magazine articles
Sustaining China’s Growth: The Role of Branding In The Analyst (2010)
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