George S. Day
At-Large Board Member
Professor of Marketing - Wharton School of Business

George S. Day is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor, Professor of Marketing, co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Visiting Professor at the London Business School. He previously taught at Stanford University, IMD (International Management Development Institute) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the University of Toronto, and has held visiting appointments at MIT and the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Wharton School, he was Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute, an industry-supported research consortium.

He has been a consultant to numerous corporations such as AT&T, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, IBM, U.S. West, Metropolitan Life, Marriott, Whirlpool Corporation, Molson Companies, Unilever, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, W.L.Gore and Associates, Nortel Networks and Bayer A.G. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Footstar Corporation and a Fellow of Diamond Cluster International. His primary areas of activity are marketing, the management of new product development, strategic planning, organizational change and competitive strategies in global markets.

Dr. Day obtained his doctorate from Columbia University in 1968. He presently serves on five editorial boards and has authored fourteen books in the areas of marketing and strategic management. His most recent books are Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy (jointly with David Reibstein) published in 1997, Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (jointly with Paul Schoemaker) published in 2000, and The Market Driven Organization, published in 1999. He is the co-editor (with David Montgomery) of the 1999 special issue of the Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Planning Review, Journal of Marketing Research, and Sloan Management Review.

Dr. Day has received various awards, including two Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation Awards and two Harold H. Maynard Awards for the best articles published in the Journal of Marketing. In 1994, he received the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award, which each year honors an outstanding leader in the field of marketing, and in 1996 he received the Paul D. Converse Award for outstanding contributions to the development of the science of marketing. He was selected as the outstanding marketing educator for 1999 by the Academy of Marketing Science, and in 2001 he received the Mahajan Award for career contributions to marketing strategy by the American Marketing Association.

He has directed and participated in numerous senior management development programs in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Latin America and Australia.