Joel Vaslow

The American Marketing Association operates professional associations for marketers. The company offers services to marketing professionals including best practices and research studies, job resources, publications and directories. Its publications include flagship semi-monthly magazine Marketing News, as well as journal of marketing, journal of public policy and marketing and a variety of newsletters. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The MSR Group LLC provides full-service market research services. It offers qualitative and quantitative research solutions, including surveys, focus groups, field services, and customer satisfaction measurement. The firm serves the financial, healthcare, retail, and marketing and advertising industries. The company was founded by Dick Worick in 1994 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Resource Systems Group, Inc. engages in the provision of consulting services. The firm offers transportation planning, market strategy, environmental permitting, and custom software development services. The company was founded by Thomas Adler, Colin High, and Dennis Meadows in 1986 and is headquartered in White River Junction, VT.

Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), a member of Young & Rubicam Brands and of the WPP Group, is a global research-based consultancy that specializes in messaging and communications strategy for blue-chip political, corporate and entertainment clients. Founded in 1975, they bring together lessons from the campaign trail and the boardroom to create innovative strategies to handle complex situations. Their powerful hybrid model combines both political and corporate research, recognizing that the strategies used to effect change in one area can be innovative and effective in the other. They call this Winning Knowledge. In the political arena, PSB has thirty years of experience winning competitive elections. They’ve won nearly three quarters of the races they’ve run, and have worked as pollster and strategic advisor to candidates including President Bill Clinton, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Their innovative and successful political work led Time Magazine to dub them “Masters of the Message.” In the corporate sector, PSB is a strategic research provider to more than 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, including many of the leading consumer and business brands. They help these organizations implement proactive, research-driven and integrated communications efforts like the ones that win political campaigns. In the entertainment world, PSB is a leading provider of cover testing research to leading magazine publishers, motion picture research for major Hollywood studios, and video game research to top game publishers. Their proprietary visual testing capabilities help clients assess and fundamentally enhance the power of their execution. Their operations include over 200 consultants and a sophisticated in-house market research infrastructure with the capability to conduct work in over 90 countries. Their offices in Washington, D.C., New York, , London, Seattle, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dubai, Beijing, Austin and Denver are supported by an in-house fielding capability and are fully equipped to provide the complete creative solutions their clients need.

Benenson Strategy Group LLC is a strategic research consultancy. Its services include brand battles, communication and messaging optimization, policies and regulations engagement, corporate reputation and trust, issue and crisis management, mergers and acquisition, market entry strategy, KPI tracking, customer journey mapping, and international politics. The company was founded by Joel Benenson and Carl Rossow in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Central Hockey League operates a professional minor league hockey teams playing in small to medium-sized markets primarily in central and southwestern US states. The league, which was started in 1992, is managed and operated by WPHL, a subsidiary of Global Entertainment Corporation.

EMI Research Solutions, Inc. provides online market research services. Its services include mobile research, programming, community and panel building, online qualitative and translations. The company was founded by Michael Holmes in 1999 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

The Center for Marketing & Opinion Research LLC is a private company based in Akron, OH that was founded by Tod S. Johnson. Recently, the company conducted the Akron Decides Poll which asked Akron voters to voice their expectations of the next mayor of their city. The company specializes in conducting surveys and polls to gather opinions and insights from the public.

G&S Research, Inc. provides market research to healthcare decision makers. It provides services to pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics firms worldwide. The company was founded by Gary Schwebach and George E. Grubb in 1997 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Escalent, Inc. engages in the provision of marketing and consulting services. It offers brand research, customer experience research, segmentation research, communications research, product development research and user experience research. The company was founded by Leona J. Foster in 1989 and is headquartered in Livonia, MI.

Rothstein-Tauber, Inc. offers custom and research-based business solutions. It offers market exploration, market segmentation, innovation and product development services. The company was founded by Mel Rothstein and Richard Tauber in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.