Abbie  Griffin
  • Royal L. Garff Presidential Chair in Marketing, Marketing Department, Department of Marketing
  • Academic Co-Director, Center for Business, Health and Prosperity, School Of Business-Dean
  • Presidential Professor, Marketing Department
  • Associate of Dean of Business Innovation, School Of Medicine-Operations

Honors & Awards

  • Undergraduate Career Mentoring. University of Utah, 04/01/2020
  • Publication Award Named in my honor: Journal of Product Innovation Management Abbie Griffin Long Term Impact Award. Product Development and Management Association, 07/01/2018
  • Winner, Visions Best Paper Award for "The Power of Design Thinking," with K. Scott Swan. Product Development and Management Association, 11/11/2017
  • Winner, Student Best Paper Award, for "The High-End Bias - Investigating the Irrational Preference for High-end over Low-end Innovations," Ronny Reinhardt, Abbie Griffin, Sebastian Gurtner and Jake Hoskins. Academy of Management, 08/08/2017
  • Doctoral Consortium Fellow. Product Development and Management Association, 07/17/2017
  • Winner, Student Best Paper Award, for "The High-End Bias - Investigating the Irrational Preference for High-end over Low-end Innovations," Ronny Reinhardt, Abbie Griffin, Sebastian Gurtner and Jake Hoskins. EIASM International Product Development Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 06/13/2017
  • 2014 Best Reviewer . Journal of Product Innovation Management, 12/2014
  • Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow. Product Development and Management Association, 07/11/2014
  • Top 45 Scholars in Innovation. Technovation, 05/06/2014
  • Bradley Award for Excellence in Teaching. DESB, 05/05/2013
  • Crawford Fellow (The highest award given in the field of Innovation and New Product Development). Product Development & Management Association, 2009
  • David Eccles School of Business Masters Teaching Excellence Award. David Eccles School of Business, 2009
  • Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award for Outstanding Professional Contribution (for "Tewnty Years of the Journal of Product Innovation Management: History, Participants and Knowledge Stocks and Flows). Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2008
  • Top 20 Marketing Science Articles in the Past 25 Years ("Voice of the Customer," Marketing Science, 1993, with John R. Hauser, was determined to be the 7th most important article in the field of Marketing Science in the last 25 years.). INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, 2007
  • Best Paper, Innovation Track, Winter Educator's Conference (“Voices from the Field: How Exceptional Electronic Industrial Innovators Innovate,” (with Raymond L. Price, Matthew M. Maloney, Bruce Vojak, and Edward W. Sim)). American Marketing Association, 2006
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Alumni Association Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching. Univesrity of Illinois Alumni Association, 2006
  • Fellow (Course Development Grant). Academy of Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Illinois, 2006
  • Inaugural Fellow (Outstanding scholar in the Business-to-Business Marketing Field). Institute for the Study of Business Markets, 2004

Affiliations

  • Technical University of Dresden, Germany (TUDresden), Visiting Senior Research Fellow, 06/2014 - 07/2014
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, D3 Innovation Lab (UIC D3), Research Fellow, 01/2014 - present

In the Media

Professional Service

  • Institute for the Study of Business Markets. Role: Board Member. Advisory Board. 07/01/2020 - present
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management. Acting Editor-in-Chief. 01/29/2018 - 03/30/2018
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management. Associate Editor. 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2018
  • American Marketing Association. Summer Educator's Conference Track Chair. 01/2015 - 08/2015
  • EIASM International Product Development and Management Conference. Conference Co-Chair, Copenhagen, Denmark. 06/2014 - 06/2015
  • American Marketing Association. Summer Educator's Conference Track Chair. 01/2014 - 08/2014
  • Product Development and Management Association. Vice President, Publications. 01/2013 - 12/31/2018
  • American Marketing Association. Summer Educator's Conference Track Chair. 01/2013 - 08/2013
  • Intermountain Medical Research and Health Foundation Quilt Auction Board. Historian. 07/2011 - present
  • Journal of Marketing Research. Board Member. 07/01/2009 - 12/31/2018
  • YMCA of Greater Salt Lake City. Board Member. 02/2009 - 02/2014
  • PDMA. Role: Member. International Conference Committee, Develop content for four tracks for PDMA's 2007 International Conference. 2007 - 2007
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management. Board Member. 2004 - present
  • EIASM. Role: Member. Organizing Committee, International PRoduct Development Conference, Select conference venues, review abstracts and papers, chair multiple sessions. 2004 - present
  • ISBM. Role: Chair. Ph.D. Student Research Camp, Design and develop annual conference that precedes Summer AMA to benefit Ph.D. Students in Business-to-Business Marketing. 01/01/2004 - 12/31/2018
  • Marketing Science. Board Member. 2002 - 2008
  • Journal of Marketing. Board Member. 2000 - present
  • Navistar: International Truck and Engine. Board Member. 1998 - 2009
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management. Editor. 01/01/1998 - 12/31/2003

Internal Service

  • Honors Program in Marketing. Liaison and Advisor, 09/02/2019 - present. Department service.
  • College RPT Committee. Member, 07/01/2019 - present. College service.
  • Emma Eccles Fund Committee. Member, 01/01/2018 - present. College service.
  • College RPT Committee. Senior Member, Marketing Department, 07/01/2017 - present. College service.
  • Equal Opportunity Best Practices Committee. Member, 10/2015 - 06/30/2016. College service.
  • College Counsel. Member, 06/2015 - 06/30/2016. College service.
  • MBA Admissions Committee. Member, 09/2013 - 08/2015. College service.
  • Committee on Government Relations. 07/2013 - 06/30/2016. University service.
  • MBA Advisory Committee. Member, 07/2013 - 06/30/2016. College service.
  • Department Chair. 07/2010 - 06/2012. Department service.
  • DESB, RPT Committee - Review tenure, promotion and retention cases for the Collete. Member, 2009 - 2010. College service.
  • DESB, Strategic Planning Committee - Help the College determine its future strategy. Member, 2009 - 2010. College service.
  • Emma Eccles Foundation, Board - Oversee how the Emma Eccles funds are used and determine funding level. Member, 01/2009 - 01/2011. College service.
  • DESB, President of the DESB Faculty. President, 2008 - 2009. College service.
  • DESB, MBA Curriculum Committee. Member, 2008 - 2009. College service.
  • DESB, College Council. Chair, 2008 - 2009. College service.
  • DESB, Dean Selection Committee. Member, 2008 - 2009. College service.
  • University, Funding Incentive Seed Grant Program Committee. Member, 2007 - present. University service.
  • DESB, Vice President of the Faculty. Vice President, 2007 - 2008. College service.
  • School of Architecture, Task Force to Create a Department of Design - Help figure out how to create a Department of Design within the School of Architecture. Member, 2007 - 2007. University service.
  • DESB, New Bulding - Visions Committee - Help draw together the vision for the new building. Member, 2007 - 2007. College service.
  • DESB, New Building - Centers Committee - Help figure out how to design the Centers for the new building. Member, 2007 - 2007. College service.
  • College Council, Marketing Group Representative - Support the faculty of the college. Member, 2006 - 2009. College service.
  • DESB, Entrepreneurship Curriculum Committee - Develop a new curriculum for the undergraduate Entrepreneurship Major. Member, 2006 - 2007. College service.
  • College of Engineering, IGERT Proposal Development Committee - Help prepare the proposal. DEvelop the business curricula to support the proposal. Member, 2006 - 2006. University service.

Community Partnership

  • The Intermountain Research and Medical Foundation Quilt Auction Guild: Member and Historian. 01/2011 - present