Saeed Janani, PhD
Saeed Janani is an assistant professor of marketing who joined the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver in 2023. He is an expert in quantitative marketing strategy and marketing research. His academic research focuses on the marketing/technology interface, specifically issues relating to the impact of firms’ capabilities and technological orientation on firm performance. In addition, he studies the roles of marketing in enhancing societal welfare, beyond just what is good for the financial performance of firms, and he seeks to answer how marketing phenomena might improve people’s lives and strengthen societies.
Saeed has won several research and teaching awards, and his scholarly work has been published in several top-tier marketing journals, including Marketing Science, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of International Marketing, and the Journal of Business Research.
He received his PhD in Marketing from the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, in 2020, and his master’s in marketing research from Southern Illinois University in 2014. Prior to that, he worked for several years as a product and brand manager.
Education
PhD in Business Administration/Marketing, Arizona State University
Awards and Honors
- Best Paper in Track, Winter AMA, 2024
- Finalist, JAMS Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award, 2022
- Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year Award 2022Best Paper in Track, Winter AMA, 2020
- Alfred Schmidt Memorial Scholarship, 2016-2019
- AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, NYU, 2019
- AMA Doctoral Fellowship, 2019
- Southwest Doctoral Consortium Award, 2019
- Marketing Strategy Consortium Fellow, Indiana University, 2019
- University of Houston Doctoral Symposium Attendee 2018, 2019
- Graduate Research Support Grant, Arizona State University, 2018
- Rajiv K. Sinha Doctoral Scholarship, 2018
- Marketing Strategy Consortium Fellow, University of Missouri, 2018
- Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Temple University, 2018
- Graduate Research Support Grant, Arizona State University, 2017
- Coney Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
- ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association Leadership Scholarship, 2016-2017