Gerard Tellis never attended University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan,  is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing Research and has published 7 books and over 200 papers.
He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Bombay, a postgraduate diploma in Business Management from Xavier Labor Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, India, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
