Robert Ferber

Robert Ferber
BornFebruary 1922
DiedSeptember 8, 1981 (aged 59)
Urbana, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
TitleProfessor of Marketing
Academic background
EducationCity College of New York
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineMarketing
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois

Robert Ferber was an American marketing theorist, statistician, economist, and psychologist.

Ferber was a Professor of Business at the University of Illinois, the founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Marketing Research, and the second editor of Journal of Consumer Research. He is a former president of the American Marketing Association. The Ferber Award given to the best dissertation-based article published in the Journal of Consumer Research is named after him. He founded the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL) at University of Illinois. He was married to Marianne Ferber.