Tim. Ambler

TIM AMBLER

Tim Ambler joined London Business School in 1991 and is aSenior Fellow. His research includes the measurement of marketing performanceand brand equity ('Marketing Metrics'), advertising and promotionseffectiveness, marketing in China and overseas market entry. Apart from theprivate sector, he researches government waste arising from bureaucracy andregulation.

He has published an introductory text, Marketing fromAdvertising to Zen, in the Financial Times Guide series, Doingbusiness with China (with Morgan Witzel), and, also published by FinancialTimes Prentice Hall, The Silk Road to International Marketing (withChris Styles). Recent papers include how advertising works, co-authored withDemetrios Vakratsas, in the Journal of Marketing; with Kent Grayson,advertising agency - client relationships in the Journal of MarketingResearch; and, with Chris Styles and Wang Xiucun, channel relationships inChina in the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He hasalso published in the Journal of Service Research, Journal of MarketingManagement, International Journal of Advertising, Asia Pacific Journal ofManagement, and the Financial Times.

Tim Ambler was previously Joint Managing Director ofInternational Distillers and Vintners (IDV - now part of Diageo), responsiblefor strategy, acquisitions and marketing. He holds Master's degrees inMathematics from Oxford and Business from the Sloan School (M.I.T). Afterqualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick andMitchell (now KPMG), it took him 5 years to discover that keepingscore was a lot less fun than marketing. The same proved to be truefor general management and he is grateful to London Business School forproviding the freedom to rediscover what marketing is all about.