Peter Dickson is the Ryder Eminent Scholar in Global Logistics at Florida International University. He was previously the Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., Chair of Marketing Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and before that the Crane Professor of Strategic Marketing and Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at The Ohio State University. Dr. Dickson received his PhD. from the University of Florida and undergraduate education at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He grew up in Oamaru, an idyllic small country town in New Zealand (trapped in an Edwardian time-warp) where he worked as an office boy, farm hand, hospital porter and in a freezing works (slaughter house). He lived to play rugby until severe head injuries ended his athletic career.
Dr. Dickson teaches marketing management to executive and professional MBAs and is currently:
- Studying business process thinking
- Improving an online tutorial and certification exam in Marketing Accounting and Financial Analysis and an online Marketing Principles and Processes text
- Developing and editing an online tutorial on Commercializing Innovations
- Helping lead the BETA (Business Education Transformation for America) Project
- Developing and commercializing an innovative business planning app called SWOTboard™. Dr. Dickson can be contacted at dicksonp@fiu.edu
Minaret Station Lake Wanaka: one of the high-country farms where Dr. Dickson worked as a teenager.