Birger Wernerfelt

J.C. Penney Professor of Management

Professor of Marketing

Birger Wernerfelt is the J.C. Penney Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Wernerfelt has held teaching positions and has done research in marketing at MIT Sloan, in economics at the University of Copenhagen, and in strategy at Northwestern University and at the University of Michigan. His current research compares alternative ways of trading services.

Wernerfelt holds a BA in philosophy and an MA in economics from the University of Copenhagen and a DBA in managerial economics from Harvard University.

Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/bwerner/www/

General Expertise: Branding; Competitive strategy; Corporate strategy and policy; Customer incentives; Customer satisfaction; Europe; Game theory; Industrial organization; Marketing strategy; Microeconomics; Research, academic; Signaling; Supply chain management

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