Industrial Technology Directory

Kenneth Kahn Ph.D.

Professor
Campus: West Lafayette
Contact
Department: Industrial Technology
Office: Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship
Phone: 765.496.3223
Fax:765-496-9870

Biography:

Kenneth B. Kahn, Ph.D. (BIE, Georgia Institute of Technology; MSIE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ph.D. in Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is a Professor and the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue University.  His teaching and research interests concern product development, product management, and demand forecasting of current and new products.  He has published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business Forecasting, Journal of Business Logistics, Marketing Management, and R&D Management.  He is the author of Product Planning Essentials (Sage Publications, 2000) and New Product Forecasting:  An Applied Approach (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), and is editor of the PDMA Handbook on New Product Development, 2nd Edition (Wiley & Sons, 2004). 

Prior to joining Purdue University, Dr. Kahn was the co-founding Director of the University of Tennessee’s Sales Forecasting Management Forum – an education and research consortium involving market analysis and sales forecasting.  He also previously was Director of Georgia Tech’s Marketing Analysis Laboratory and co-founder of Georgia Tech's Collaborative Product Development Laboratory, both of which conducted corporate-sponsored research.  Dr. Kahn is currently Vice President of Publications for the Product Development & Management Association (www.pdma.org). 

Dr. Kahn's industrial experience includes serving as an industrial engineer and project engineer for the Weyerhaeuser Company and a manufacturing engineer for Respironics, Inc. He has consulted with and facilitated training sessions with numerous companies, including Acco Brands, Alticor Corporation, Biolab, Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Deere & Company, Enterasys Networks, Gillette, Harley-Davidson, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Nutritionals, Schering-Plough, Springs Industries, and Unilever.

Links

• Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship