Jagdish N. Sheth (born 1938) is the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.
His father had migrated from Western India to Burma to set up a business as a rice merchant.
It was here that he met his future wife, Madhuri Shah, at a local literacy society for high school students that he had founded.
[citation needed] Sheth came to the United States to further his academic career and received his MBA at the University of Pittsburgh in 1962.
During the mid-1960s he studied and researched at MIT, Columbia and the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his PhD in 1966 from its Katz Graduate School of Business.