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David W. Stewart's Strategic Insights

David W. Stewart is a renowned scholar in marketing and consumer behavior, with an extensive career spanning academic leadership, expert testimony, and influential publications.

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David W. Stewart is an internationally recognized marketing scholar and educator, known for his work in advertising research, marketing strategy, and consumer insights. He has authored numerous books, academic papers, and professional columns shaping the modern understanding of marketing effectiveness.

He has served in leadership roles at major universities, advised global organizations, and contributed expert testimony in high-profile litigation matters related to marketing, branding, and consumer behavior.

His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including lifetime achievement honors from leading academic associations.

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Thinking About Marketing.

Brand Building

Incentivizing Brand Building, Branding Strategy Insider.

Creativity

The Financial Return on Creativity: The Case of Advertising, Marketing Accountability Standards Board White Paper, February

Advertising

The Role of Creativity in Advertising, Branding Strategy Insider.

Brand Strategies

5 Brand Strategies for Responding to Change, Branding Strategy Insider.

Brand Building

Incentivizing Brand Building, Branding Strategy Insider.

Creativity

The Financial Return on Creativity: The Case of Advertising, Marketing Accountability Standards Board White Paper, February

Advertising

The Role of Creativity in Advertising, Branding Strategy Insider.

Academic Articles

Representative Publications

Academic Articles

Representative Publications

Stewart, D.W. (2024)

The Impact of Digital Advertisin… Journal of Marketing

Stewart, D.W. (2023)

Brand Recognition in Markets… Journal of Consumer Behavior

Stewart, D.W. (2022)

Improving Marketing Measurements… Journal of Advertising
Published Works

Representative Books

  • Winning the Advertising Game: Lessons from the Super Bowl Ad Champions, scheduled for publication by Springer in 2025. (with Sascha Raithel, Alexander Mafael, and Charles Ray Taylor).

  • Maladaptive Consumer Behavior: Theory, Behavior, and Intervention, (Palgrave: 2024). (with Ingrid Martin).

  • Marketing Accountability for Marketing and Non-marketing Outcomes, Review of Marketing Research, Volume 18, (Emerald Publishing: 2021). (co-edited with V. Kumar).

  • Master of Marketing Measurement: Margaret Henderson Blair on Marketing Accountability, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2021). (edited volume). (with Allan Kuse).

Winning the Advertising Game:

Lessons from the Super Bowl Ad Champions, scheduled for publication by Springer in 2025. (with Sascha Raithel, Alexander Mafael, and Charles Ray Taylor).

Maladaptive Consumer Behavior:

Theory, Behavior, and Intervention, (Palgrave: 2024). (with Ingrid Martin).

Marketing Accountability

Marketing Accountability for Marketing and Non-marketing Outcomes, Review of Marketing Research, Volume 18, (Emerald Publishing: 2021). (co-edited with V. Kumar).

Master of Marketing Measurement:

Margaret Henderson Blair on Marketing Accountability, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2021). (edited volume). (with Allan Kuse).

Marketing, Public Policy

Marketing, Public Policy, and Moral Courage in a Diverse, Rapidly Changing World, Proceedings of the 2020 AMA Marketing + Public Policy Conference, Volume 30, (American Marketing Association: 2020). (with Mitchell Hamilton and Myla Bui).

Experience

Representative Consulting Experience

  • Agilent Technologies

  • American Cable Systems

  • AT&T

  • Baxter Health Care Group

  • Bell Communications Research

  • Cadence Design Systems

  • City of Riverside

  • Coca-Cola Company

  • Compass Lexecon

  • Cornerstone Research

  • Federal Trade Commission

  • FISERV

  • Ford Motor Company

  • General Motors

  • Hewlett Packard

  • Honeywell Home and Building Control

  • Hughes Corp.

  • International Teleproduction Society

  • Lintas Worldwide Advertising

  • NCR

  • Nihhon Health Industry Co.

  • Samsung

  • Schnucks’ Supermarkets

  • Texas Instruments

  • Visa Services International

  • Weyerhaeuser Company

  • Xerox

  • Yankelovich, Clancy, and Schulman

Academic Background

Education

Ph.D. in Personality Psychology

Ph.D. in Personality Psychology

Baylor University,
Waco, TX. (December, 1974).

MA in General Experimental Psychology

MA in General Experimental Psychology

Baylor University,
Waco, TX. (May, 1973).

BA in Psychology

BA in Psychology

Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, LA. (now University of Louisiana Monroe). (January 1972).

Professional Recognition

Representative Honors & awards

Wilkie Award

Recipient of the 2025 William L. Wilkie Marketing for a Better World Award, American Marketing Association.

Blair Award

Recipient of the 2021 Margaret H. Blair Award for Marketing Accountability, MASB.

JAR Practitioner Award

Best practitioner paper award for a paper published in the Journal of Advertising Research in 2020.

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