Harold Gross established Market Research Answers, Inc. (MRA) in 2009 with the goal of providing clients with best-in-class B2B qualitative and quantitative market research services. Since then, MRA has completed dozens of studies across a broad range of industries for Fortune 500 companies and small- to medium-sized enterprises to help them better understand the needs of their business customers. Representative clients have included Dover Corporation, Ecolab, ITW, KONE, Lockheed Martin and Worley. Prior to MRA, he was a vice president with the Dallas Marketing Group, and he previously held positions in finance, marketing and operations with American Airlines.

 

His research career began as an economist with the John Gray Institute, and he later held research positions at Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business and the University of North Texas. During this time, he conducted economic, market and public policy analyses for many private, not-for-profit and public sector clients, including American Airlines, AT&T, CBRE, Texaco, the Congressional Sunbelt Caucus, the Western Governors’ Association, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress and the US Senate Finance Committee. He also wrote on economic and public policy issues for the Dallas Morning News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other news outlets.

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He has a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), and he is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at UTD.