Sonia Marciano
VISITING CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT at Booth School of Business
Visiting Clinical Professor of Excutive Education at Kellogg School of Management
Clinical Full Professor of Management and Organizations at Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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- Kellogg School of Management
- Leonard N. Stern School of Business
- Booth School of Business
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Booth School of Business
Sonia Marciano, Visiting Clinical Professor of Strategic Management, will be teaching Competitive Strategy at Booth. She is currently Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University Stern School of Business.
Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Marciano taught Strategy at Columbia Business School and was an Institute Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Harvard University's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. In Chicago, Professor Marciano also was a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management for eight years, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at the University of Chicago. Professor Marciano has worked in the consulting, banking and insurance industries, and has taught executive education courses for Ernst & Young and Abbott Laboratories, among others.
Professor Marciano received her B.A. with honors, her M.B.A. and her Ph.D. in Business Economics and Industrial Organization, all from the University of Chicago.
She earned a PhD in business economics in 2000, an MBA in 1994, and a bachelor's degree in economics in 1986 with honors, all from the University of Chicago.
Marciano enjoys spending time with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.
Kellogg School of Management
Sonia Marciano joined the Stern School of Management as a Clinical Associate Professor in July, 2007. She spent the previous year teaching strategy at the Columbia Business School and the previous two years at Harvard’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) as an Institute Fellow and Senior Lecturer. At the ISC, Professor Marciano developed content for the Institute's Microeconomics of Competitiveness course offering. She co-taught this course with Professor Michael E. Porter. In addition to teaching the core strategy course at Stern, she is the academic director of Stern’s joint Global MBA program with HEC and LSE.
Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Marciano spent eight years as a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at the University of Chicago. Sonia taught core strategy as well as an international strategy elective. She is continuously involved with executive education programs for various firms, such as Ernst & Young, Abbott Laboratories, and others. She also has taught strategy and economics for executive education programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Sonia has won several teaching awards for distinction in teaching, most recently for best professor in Stern’s Executive MBA program for 2010. She was among the highest rated professors at Stern, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg and the University of Chicago.
She received her BA with honors from the University of Chicago. She worked in consulting, banking and the insurance industries before returning to the University of Chicago to receive her MBA in 1994, and her PhD in Business Economics and Industrial Organization in 2000.
Education Ph.D., 2000, Business Economics, University of Chicago
M.B.A., 2000, University of Chicago
B.A., Economics, University of Chicago, with honors
Academic Positions , University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 2008-present
Clinical Professor, New York University, Stern School of Management, 2007-present
Clinical Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, 1997-present
Visiting Professor, Columbia Business School, 2006-2007
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School, 2004-2006
Adjunct Professor, University of Chicago, 1996-2006
Honors and Awards Executive MBA Program Outstanding Teaching Awards, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
Education Academic Positions Honors and Awards
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Sonia Marciano has been a Clinical Professor at the Stern School of Management since July, 2007. She teaches in Stern’s full time, part time, and executive MBA programs, as well as in the undergraduate college. She is Stern’s academic director for TRIUM – a joint executive MBA program that includes Stern, LSE and HEC. Marciano was a recipient of the 2022 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, which is conferred to up to 6 faculty selected from more than three thousand across the 20+ schools that comprise New York University. The award is based on input from current students, alumni, and colleagues. She has taught MBA and executive MBA courses at Booth, Kellogg, Wharton and Yale. Professor Marciano has won several teaching awards for distinction in teaching, most recently for best professor in Yale and Stern’s Executive MBA programs.
Prior to joining Stern full time, she was at the Columbia Business School and prior to Columbia, she spent 2.5 years at Harvard’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), where she developed content for the Institute's Microeconomics of Competitiveness course which she co-taught with Professor Michael E. Porter. Before HBS, Professor Marciano spent eight years as a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, while also lecturing at the University of Chicago. Marciano has authored several HBS cases and co-authored the book Kellogg on Strategy, with Professor David Dranove. She has worked in consulting, insurance and banking prior to earning her PhD.
Marciano received her BA, MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Academic Background
B.A.
University of Chicago
M.B.A.
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Business Economics and Industrial Organization
University of Chicago
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