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Catharine Curran

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Catharine Curran, PhD

Associate Professor / Director of Global Engagement

Management & Marketing

Contact

508-999-8431

508-999-8646

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Charlton College of Business 324

Education

2000New Mexico State UniversityPhD
1996New Mexico State UniversityMBA
1982Pennsylvania State UniversityBA

Teaching

Courses

Basic understanding of the factors affecting marketing communications decisions as well as the role of marketing communications in marketing strategic planning. The basic principles of advertising, sales promotion, digital marketing, social media marketing and personal selling are discussed and how those tools are integrated into a coherent marketing communications strategy.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Basic understanding of the factors affecting marketing communications decisions as well as the role of marketing communications in marketing strategic planning. The basic principles of advertising, sales promotion, digital marketing, social media marketing and personal selling are discussed and how those tools are integrated into a coherent marketing communications strategy.

Basic understanding of the factors affecting marketing communications decisions as well as the role of marketing communications in marketing strategic planning. The basic principles of advertising, sales promotion, digital marketing, social media marketing and personal selling are discussed and how those tools are integrated into a coherent marketing communications strategy.
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Strategy formulation for determining what marketing strategy can realistically accomplish, identifying internal and external factors that must be considered in developing longer term strategies, setting realistic marketing and financial objectives and organizing for successful implementation of strategies. Students undertake assignments that allow them to examine both successful and unsuccessful strategies.
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Research

Research activities

  • How becoming market driven has affected the traditional professions of law, medicine and education

Research

Research interests

  • Marketing to children
  • Privacy
  • Public policy
  • The application of market orientation to traditionally non-market based professions

Catharine Curran is Associate Professor in the Management and Marketing Department of the Charlton College of Business. She came to UMass Dartmouth from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska where she was an Assistant Professor of Marketing. Prior to Creighton University she was a Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dr. Curran has published in journals such as The Journal of Advertising, The Journal of Consumer Marketing, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Marketing Education Review.