Barbara E. Kahn was named dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration June 1, 2007.
Dean Kahn came to UM from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Marketing, and vice dean and director of the Undergraduate Division. She was also a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute and a faculty member of the Graduate Group in the Psychology Department.

A noted scholar on variety seeking, brand loyalty, retail assortment issues and patient decision-making, Kahn's research provides marketing managers with a better understanding of the consumer choice process. Her more than 50 academic articles have been published in top-tier journals. She also co-authored Grocery Revolution: The New Focus on the Consumer, a book that chronicled the dramatically changing supermarket industry and outlined how consumers make choices within the supermarket.

Dean Kahn has been elected president of the Association of Consumer Research, elected president of the Journal of Consumer Research Policy Board and selected as a Marketing Science Institute Trustee. She was also area editor at Marketing Science and associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research. She is or has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Marketing Letters.

Dean Kahn received her PhD, MBA and MPhil degrees from Columbia University, and a BA in English Literature from the University of Rochester.

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