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K. Scott Swan

K. Scott Swan

David Peebles Professor of Business, Marketing Area Head

Area: International Business & Marketing
Phone: 757-221-2860
Email: [[m|Scott.Swan]]
Office: Miller Hall 3017

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Biography

Biography

Scott Swan, Ph.D. is the David L. Peebles Professor of Business Chair and served as the President of the W&M Faculty Assembly (2023-2024). He is currently serving as the faculty representative to the W&M Board of Visitors. He teaches Innovation Strategy in the Marketing Area at the William & Mary, Raymond A. Mason School of Business. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Alan B. Miller Entrepreneurship Center.

Professor Swan has worked in engineering project management for Flour-Daniel, marketing management for Foremost Corporation of America, as well as founding several small businesses related to design. He has accomplished five economic impact studies for the Virginia Port Authority and four for Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, two for Virginia Maritime Association, along with others including Union Mission, Governor's Report for Virginia's Housing Policy Advisory Board, two for Jefferson Labs, and currently for the Virginia Chamber of Commerce/VEDP. Dr. Swan has presented at conferences across Europe, Asia, and South America. He has lectured internationally at University of Applied Science Upper Austria (Wels), Corvinus University in Budapest, MCI in Innsbruck, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, WHU in Koblenz, Germany, The University of Bratislava in Slovakia, and the Vienna Business School (WU) in Austria.

Professor Swan is guest editing a special issue of The Design Journal entitled: "What could innovative product design research be doing in 2053?" due out in December 2024 (Vol. 26, Issue 5). He wrote Global Marketing (5th) Routledge: New York and London (with Kate Gillespie) in 2022. He has published widely and serves on the editorial review board of two journals related to product development, management, and design: The Design Journal and the Journal of Product Innovation Management along with authoring three books on these subjects. One book, Innovation and Product Management: A Holistic and Practical Approach to Uncertainty Reduction (with Kurt Gaubinger, Michael Rabi, and Thomas Werani - Springer Science & Business Media 2015), has experienced over 70,000 chapter downloads.

Areas of Interest/Expertise

  • Innovation Strategy
  • Product Development & Design
  • Global Marketing & Strategy
  • Export Management
  • Global Sourcing Strategy
  • Cooperative Strategies

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