The Market Research Toolbox: A Concise Guide for Beginners

About Edward F. (Francis) McQuarrie

Edward F. McQuarrie is a professor in the Department of Marketing Leavey School of Business Santa Clara University in Californias Silicon Valley. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1985 and a B.A. in Psychology and Literature from The Evergreen State College in 1976. His research interests include market research appropriate to technology products on the one hand and advertising strategies that call on rhetoric narrative and semiotic resources on the other. He has also written the book Customer Visits: Building a Better Market Focus co-edited the volume Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric and published articles in the Journal of Consumer Research Journal of Advertising Marketing Theory Journal of Consumer Psychology Journal of the Market Research Society Journal of Advertising Research and the Journal of Product Innovation Management among others. For a current list of publications you can access his profile on scholar.google.com or researchgate.net.   He was Associate Dean for Assessment at the Leavey School of Business 2001-2010 responsible for the assessment of learning outcomes and the evaluation of teaching. He was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies 19962000 responsible for the MBA and Executive MBA programs. Professor McQuarrie began moderating focus groups in 1980 for Burke Marketing Research. He has consulted for a variety of technology firms and has taught seminars on effective customer visits managing focus group research marketing research methods and similar topics for the Management Roundtable Hewlett-Packard Sun Microsystems Microsoft Apple Computer Tektronix Varian Associates Cadence Design and other clients in England Germany and New Zealand as well as the United States.