MBA in Marketing: Marketing Analytics and Insights

Learn research methods to discover consumer behavior insights and guide business decisions.

Drive Strategy With Insight

Capture, analyze and apply consumer insights to shape future business strategy. Hear from Jessica Viesselman (MBA ’07), consumer insights manager at American Family Insurance, on how the skills and experience you gain through this specialization will empower you to add value to your workplace from day one.

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Marketing Analytics and Insights Careers

Make an immediate impact as a data-driven leader. Be empowered to lead and turn your interest in human behavior into a career.

Common career paths

Strategic application of consumer insights into marketing strategy
Consumer insights
Shopper insights
Digital marketing analytics

Common job titles

Associate Global Insights Manager
Consumer Insight Strategist
Consumer and Market Knowledge Manager
Global Consumer Insight Associate
Senior Associate of Design Research
Senior Research Analyst
User Experience Analyst

Gain Marketing Breadth + Deep Expertise to Stand Out

Build a career advantage with the curriculum, industry experiences, and connections of a top-ranked marketing MBA, plus added expertise in marketing analytics and insights.

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Applied Learning

Company visits & current topic seminars

SC Johnson. Focus: How to make advertising more effective through marketing analytics and insights techniques such as the use of neuroscience.

Microsoft. Focus: Product marketing strategy and use of competitive response modeling to attract new users to their mobile devices.

Kimberly-Clark. Focus: Behavioral economic approaches to understanding consumer decisions and the keys to using consumer data to measure brand equity.

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More applied learning activities

Interviewing consumers in their homes for product innovation ideation
Discussion on data sources, privacy and ethics of today’s personalized marketing
Turning data insights into corporate storytelling
Evaluating consumer behavior in niche consumer groups

Curriculum

The Wisconsin Full-Time MBA curriculum integrates a strong foundation in general management with highly focused preparation in marketing. With marketing analytics and insights-specific courses, electives, and applied learning opportunities that begin as soon as your first semester, the MBA in Business: Marketing: Marketing Analytics and Insights gives you a competitive edge in your career.

Year 1

First Semester

MBA Core
Marketing Research
Current Topics in Marketing

Second Semester

MBA Core
Marketing Analytics
Qualitative Insights or New Product Innovation
Current Topics in Marketing

Year 2

First Semester

Data Technology
Data Visualization
Experiments & Causal Methods
Current Topics in Marketing
Electives

Second Semester

Marketing Consulting Practicum
Qualitative Insights or New Product Innovation
Marketing in the Digital Age
Electives

Learn more about the marketing MBA core curriculum.

This is a representation of the course of study. Specifics may vary.

Marketing Leadership Institute

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With industry experience and support, Wisconsin goes deeper. A dedicated knowledge center, the Marketing Leadership Institute, is backed by industry professionals and is a unique pillar of the Wisconsin MBA in marketing analytics and insights. You gain a strong network in the field and close ties to alumni working in your ideal career path.

Participating marketing industry experts and alumni:

Guide curriculum
Host applied learning
Contribute to the classroom
Mentor students
Assist with recruiting and placement

Advisory Board

Members of the Marketing Leadership Institute’s advisory board have deep ties to industry and consult on curriculum, projects, and networking. See our advisory board members.

Barry Jennings serves as chief un-blocker, chief plate filler, and overhead for a merry band of exceptional researchers responsible for creating insights that drive impact. Prior to joining Microsoft, he ran research/competitive intelligence/knowledge management for BlackBerry, before that he spent nearly 20 years creating insights for various business units inside Dell, Inc., and prior to that he cut his teeth on the supplier side for almost 10 years. Says Jennings, “I’m passionate about marketing research, and I want to share my knowledge and experiences with the future research leaders as they take this practice to the next level.

Barry Jennings

Director, Cloud & Enterprise Insights, Microsoft

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