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Center for Marketing Advantage, Advancement, and Action (CM3A)

Mission Statement

"The Rutgers Center for Marketing Advantage, Advancement, and Action (CM3A) aims to bridge cutting-edge academic research with real-world applications, providing insights, strategies, and solutions that drive marketing advantage and sustainable growth. Through collaboration with industry leaders, nonprofit organizations, academics, government agencies, and stakeholders, CM3A will foster innovation, cultivate future marketing leaders, and advance knowledge for the betterment of business and society.”

Our Goals

  • Developing Future Marketing Leaders
  • Advancing Marketing Knowledge and Best Practices
  • Driving Market Impact for All Organizations

Sample Activities

  • Coordinating student consulting projects
  • Strategy Mapping, including due diligence
  • Marketing Research, including consumer research, surveys, focus groups, model building
  • Marketing Audit, reverse engineering your strategy to find misalignments
  • Process Development, including marketing tools, fundraising and others
  • White papers
  • Training
  • Coaching in strategy and process deployment
  • Certificate programs
  • Conference and workshops

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Membership Levels

Junior Member - between $500 - $2,500 per year

  • Complimentary subscription to the CMA3 Newsletter.
  • Complimentary participation in one public event organized by the RBS per year  (maximum 5 attendees).
  • Networking with students for hiring and internship opportunities, faculty, and other member-company executives.

Associate Member - between $2,500 - $10,000 per year

  • Complimentary subscription to the CMA3 Newsletter.
  • Complimentary participation in one public event organized by the RBS per year (maximum 10 attendees).
  • One research or consulting project per year (extending one semester).
  • Networking with students for hiring and internship opportunities, faculty and other member-company executives.

Founding Member - $10,000+ per year

  • Automatic membership to the Center's Advisory Board of Directors.
  • Complimentary subscription to the CM3A Newsletter.
  • Complimentary participation in any public event organized by the RBS (maximum 10 attendees per event).
  • One complimentary, dedicated, exclusive in-company workshop per year in cutting-edge topics (additional surcharge if on-campus; time and extension limits apply).
  • One research or consulting project per term (2 per year).
  • Networking with students for hiring and internship opportunities, faculty and other member-company executives

 

Center Directors

Faculty Spotlight

Can (John) Uslay

Professor

Can Uslay (MBA and Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology) is a Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Marketing Advantage, Advancement, and Action (CM3A), and Affiliated Faculty of Supply Chain Management at Rutgers Business School at Newark and New Brunswick

His research interests lie broadly within marketing strategy...


Faculty Spotlight

Francisco J. Quevedo

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Francisco J. Quevedo is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice with the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School, and the Executive Director of the Center for Marketing Advantage, Advancement, and Action. He is a University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978 graduate in economics and got his doctorate in Marketing, MBA, and...


Contact Us

For additional information about the Center for Market Advantage, please contact us at cm3a@business.rutgers.edu.