Byron Sharp
Director, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute / Professor of Marketing Science

Organisation unit

College of Business and Law School of Marketing
Profile of Byron Sharp

About me

Professor Byron Sharp is one of the world's most famous Professors of Marketing.  His book How Brands Grow(Oxford University Press 2010) has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is repeatedly listed as the most influential text in marketing today.  His research has been reported in The Economist, the Financial Times, Bloomberg TV, Ad Age, Marketing Week, The Australian.

Professor Sharp's has published over 100 peer reviewed acadmic journal articles, and is one of the world's most published and cited advertising resarchers.  He is on the editorial boards of five international journals.  With Professor Jerry Wind at Wharton he organised two conferences at the Wharton School on empirical laws concerning advertising, both conferences resulted in special issues of the Journal of Advertising Research.

Sir Charles McGrath Award from the Australian Marketing Institute (2025).

Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Marketing Confederation (2025).

Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.
Last updated on 05/01/2026 by Byron Sharp