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John Anthony Quelch CBE (born 8 August 1951) was appointed in 2017 as Vice Provost for Executive Education and Dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. He is also the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School and Dean Emeritus at the China Europe International Business School, Shanghai.^[1]

Early life and career

Quelch was born in London, son of an RAF officer and a nurse .

Quelch returned to Harvard in 2001 as Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development overseeing the establishment of a global network of research centers.[5] Between 2006 and 2008, he served as Senior Associate Dean responsible for coordinating the planning and execution of Harvard Business School's 2008 Centennial celebrations. He also served as a director of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company.

In 2009, Quelch was on sabbatical leave in Shanghai as the La Caixa Visiting Professor of International Management and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council at the

Quelch returned to Harvard in 2013 as the first Harvard Business School professor to hold a joint primary appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as professor of Health Policy and Management. Between 2013 and 2017, he also served as an associate in research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, fellow of the Harvard China Fund, and member of the Harvard China Advisory Board.

Research and publications

Quelch's early research focused on the application of marketing to preventive healthcare programs.This resulted in the article "Marketing Principles and the Future of Preventive Health Care" (Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly/Health and Society, 1980) and other papers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Nutrition Reviews.

Next, Quelch focused on how to improve the design and productivity of temporary price promotions. This work coalesced in the book, Sales Promotion Management, (Prentice-Hall, 1989).

By the late 1980s, Quelch had already turned his attention to the marketing implications of globalization. His research on global marketing was profiled by Mazur and Miles in Conversations With Marketing Masters (John Wiley, 2007). His books in this domain include:

• The Global Market (Jossey Bass, 2005) and
• The New Global Brands: Managing Non-Governmental Organizations in the 21st Century (Thomson, 2006)
• Business Solutions For The Global Poor (Jossey Bass, 2007)
• Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy (Harvard Business Press, 2008)
• All Business Is Local (Penguin/Portfolio, 2012)
• Global Marketing Management (6th edition, BVT Publishing, 2017).

Since 2013, Quelch has focused his attention on patient centricity and consumer empowerment in the healthcare sector. Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, (Oxford University Press, 2016) was followed by Building A Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business (Springer, 2016).

Quelch's practitioner focused articles embrace eighteen contributions in the Harvard Business Review. His articles include: "Bringing Customers Into The Boardroom" (Harvard Business Review, November 2004), "How Global Brands Compete" (Harvard Business Review, September 2004), "Building And Valuing Global Brands in the Nonprofit Sector", (Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2007), "Governance in the Public Sector", (Directors & Boards, 2008), "An Exploration of Marketing's Impacts on Society: A Perspective Linked to Democracy" (Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 2008), "How To Market In A Downturn" (Harvard Business Review, April 2009). "Can Corporate Social Responsibility Survive The Recession?" (Leader to Leader, 2009) and "Government Adoption of Sales Promotions: An Initial Appraisal" (Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 2010).

Professor Quelch is known for his teaching materials and innovations in pedagogy. His case studies have sold over 4 million copies, third highest in HBS history. In 1995, he developed the first HBS interactive CD-ROM exercise (on Intel's advertising budgeting process). In 1999, he developed and presented a series of twelve one-hour programs on Marketing Management for the Public Broadcasting System. His Marketing Know:How blog, accessible at [1] and published by Harvard Business School Publishing, has been translated into Chinese and Vietnamese.

Other activities

In 2002, Acting Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts appointed Quelch to be chairman of the board of the Massachusetts Port Authority, overseeing three airports, waterfront real estate and the seaport of Boston. In this pro bono role, he chaired the security and safety committee and, later, the strategy and services committee of the Massport board. He submitted his resignation to Governor Deval Patrick in January 2011 after 8 1/2 years of service.^[8]

In an additional pro bono role, Quelch has served from 2003 as Honorary Consul General of the

Quelch has governance experience as a non-executive director of public companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2013, he stepped down as a non-executive director of WPP plc, the world's largest marketing and media services company, after 25 years of service. He now serves as a non-executive director of Alere, a health diagnostics company, and Aramark, a food service and facilities management company. He served previously as a director of easyJet plc, Pentland Group plc, Pepsi Bottling Group and Reebok International Ltd. He is senior strategy advisor to JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce company.

In the not-for-profit sector, Quelch has served as honorary chairman of the British American Business Council of New England, as a trustee of the London-based STARS foundation and as a board member of Americans for Oxford, Accion International and the National Council of Better Business Bureaus.

Quelch is a member of

References

• Quelch's biography on Harvard Business School site

External links

• John Quelch profile at NNDB
• Selection of TV interviews given by John Quelch