Research Seminars

Marketing Research Seminars 2024

DateSeminar Title
6 June 2024
Yu Ding
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stanford University
"Similarity Judgments Debias the Hidden Discrimination in Candidate Ratings for Hiring"
24 April 2024
Ayelet Israeli
Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
"Using GPT for Market Research"
22 March 2024
​​​​​​​Dan Schley
Associate Professor of Marketing Management, Erasmus University
"Measurement Invariance Across Conditions: A Case Study of Material and Experiential Happiness"
14 March 2024
He (Michael) Jia
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Hong Kong
"Visual Influences of Quantity Display in Online Grocery Retailing"
16 February 2024
Yann Cornil
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of British Columbia
"Obesity, Responsiveness to Food Marketing, and Taste Perception Before and After Bariatric Surgery"
2 February 2024
Jayson S. Jia
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Hong Kong
"Exposure Paradox and the Riskiness of Strong Ties"
25 January 2024
Jennifer Argo
Carthy Professor of Marketing, University of Alberta
"Disrespectful promotions: The Negative Impact of price promotions on products linked to stigmatized identities"
19 January 2024
David J. Hardisty
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of British Columbia
"Income Prediction Bias in the Gig Economy"

Marketing Research Seminars 2023

DateSeminar Title
22 September 2023
Dilip Soman
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics, University of Toronto
"Do mandated financial disclosures help people make better choices?"
18 September 2023
Tracey Danaher
Professor of Marketing, Monash University             
"Behind the Door: Privacy Threats, Vulnerability, and Infringement Guards in Retail Fitting Rooms"
15 September 2023
Peter Danaher             
Professor of Marketing, Monash University
"Handling Selection Effects When Linking Online Review Reading to Subsequent Purchase"
28 April 2023Peter C. Verhoef 
Professor of Marketing, University of Groningen
"The Impact of Nutrition Claims on Purchase Behavior for Food Products"Shopping Distancing: The Impact of Travel Cost on Shopping Destination Choices"
29 March 2023Nicole Kim
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
"Culture for Sale: Unpacking Consumer Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation"
24 March 2023Ron Berman
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania
"Influence or Advertise: The Role of Social Learning in Influencer Marketing"
17 March 2023Spyros Zoumpoulis
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD
"A Sample Size Calculation for Training and Certifying Targeting Policies"
9 March 2023Rajdeep Grewal 
Tommie Goh Visiting Professor and Townsend Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of North Carolina
"Organizational Herding and Business Model Innovation Adoption"
24 February 2023Shane Wang
Professor of Marketing, Virginia Tech 
"Online Education and Face-to-Face Peer Benefits: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic"
27 January 2023Kyuhong Han
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Korea University 
"Casual Mediation Analysis Using Double Machine Learning"

Marketing Research Seminars 2022

DateSeminar Title
20 May 2022Albert Valenti
Assistant Professor in Marketing, IESE Business School
"Shopping Distancing: The Impact of Travel Cost on Shopping Destination Choices"(Webinar)
23 April 2022Tesary Lin
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Boston University
"How Do Privacy Valuations Respond to Choice Architecture?---Implication for Privacy Policy Evaluation" (Webinar)
8 April 2022Shrabastee Banerjee
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Tilburg University
"Platform Monetization and Unintended Consequences on its Ecosystem: Evidence from a Two-sided Market for Books Effects" (Webinar)
25 March 2022Isabelle Engeler
Assistant Professor of Marketing, IESE Business School
"From Mix-and-Match to Head-to-Toe: How Brand Combinations Affect Observer Trust" (Webinar)

11 March 2022
Ann Schlosser
Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing, University of Washington
"Overcorrecting for a Machine’s Mistakes: When AI Errors Increase AI Adoption"(Webinar)
4 February 2022Xu Zhang
Assistant Professor of Marketing, London Business School
"Online Healthcare Platform Evolution: The Interplay of Bargaining and Network Effects"(Webinar)

​​​​​​​Marketing Research Seminars 2021

DateSeminar Title
21 May 2021Manuel Hermosilla
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
"Does Consumer Demand “Pull” Scientifically Novel Drug Innovation?" (Webinar)
23 April 2021Ralf van der Lans
Professor of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“Country-of-Origin and Marketing Mix Effectiveness in a Product-Harm Crisis: Evidence from the 2008 Infant Milk Scandal in China” (Webinar)

Marketing Research Seminars 2020

DateSeminar Title
12 November 2020Pieter Schoonees  
Assistant Professor, Erasmus University
“Some (Best) Practices in Predictive Modelling” (Webinar)
6 November 2020Andrew Stephen 
L’Oréal Professor of Marketing & Associate Dean of Research, University of Oxford
"Social Media Use and Psychological Well-Being" (Webinar)
7 August 2020Brett Hollenbeck 
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Market for Fake Reviews” (Webinar)
24 July 2020Sara Kim
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Hong Kong
"The Role of Anthropomorphic Agents in Consumer Behavior" (Webinar)
13 February 2020David Dubios
Associate Professor of Marketing, INSEAD
"When and Why Mere Exposure to Sharing Cues Increases Variety-Seeking"

Marketing Research Seminars 2019

DateSeminar Title
19 November 2019Pranav Jindal  
Assistant Professor of Marketing, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Marketing Mix Response across Retail Formats - The Role of Shopping Trip Types"
22 April 2019Jeffrey Inman 
Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean of Research and Faculty, University of Pittsburgh
"What Drives Post-Level User Engagement? The Role of Sender-Reader Matching and the Moderating Effect of Online Social Ties"
5 April 2019Christian Wheeler
StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing,Stanford University 
"Personalization in Email Marketing: The Role of Noninformative Advertising Content"
13 February 2019Deborah Small
Laura and John J. Pomerantz Professor of Marketing and Psychology at the Wharton School and the Psychology Department of the University of Pennsylvania
"Ineffective Altruism"

Marketing Research Seminars 2018

DateSeminar Title
13 November 2018Rajdeep Grewal 
Tommie Goh Visiting Professor of Marketing, Singapore Management University 
Townsend Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing, UNC Kenan-Flagler  
"Image Portfolio and Demand in the Sharing Economy"
07 May 2018 Yann Cornil 
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of British Columbia 
"Food as Fuel: Performance goals increase preferences for high-calorie foods and caloric intake"
2 March 2018Bernd Skiera
Chaired Professor of Electronic Commerce, Goethe University 
"A New Method to Decompose Changes in Customer Equity into its Drivers"
09 March 2018Angela Y. Lee
Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing, Northwestern University 
"The Creative Power of Color Harmony"
02 February 2018Sunil Gupta
Tommie Goh Visiting Professor of Marketing, Singapore Management University
Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program, Harvard Business School
"Managing Churn to Maximize Profits"
15 January 2018Yakov Bart
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University 
"Online Advertising Effectiveness across Media Channels and Countries"

Marketing Research Seminars 2017

DateSeminar Title
28 April 2017Neil A. Morgan
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of British Columbia 
"When and How Does Market Share Drive Profits?"
24 March 2017André Bonfrer
Professor of Quantitative Marketing, University of Queensland
"Measuring the sales response to the Australian plain packaging regulation of cigarettes"

Marketing Research Seminars 2016 

DateSeminar Title
10 November 2016David Dubois
Assistant Professor of Marketing, INSEAD
"When Do Consumers Aspire to Live vs.Look like Kings?How Power States Drive the Preference for Experiential vs.Material Luxury"
14 October 2016CB Bhattacharya 
Pietro Ferrero Chair of Sustainability and Director, Center for Sustainable Business at ESMT European School of Management and Technology
"Awakening the Green Self: Stakeholder Reactions to Sustainability"
07 October 2016Raymond R.Burke
E.W. Kelley Chaired Professor, Indiana University
"Identifying the Drivers of Shopper Attention,Engagement, and Purchase"
10 June 2016Vanessa Patrick
Bauer Professor of Marketing, University of Houston, LVMH-SMU Luxury Brand Initiative Visiting Research Fellow, Singapore Management University
"The Power of the Pen: Handwritten Fonts Invite Consumer Engagement"
19 February 2016Marnik Dekimpe
Research Professor of Marketing,Tilburg University ,Professor of Marketing,KU Leuven,Distinguished Visiting Professor of Marketing,Singapore Management University
"Global Private-Label Convergence: Fact or Fiction?"
29 January 2016Sunil Gupta
Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration in Harvard Business School and Tommie Goh Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship and Business in Singapore Management University
"Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising"

Marketing Research Seminars 2015

DateSeminar Title
24 November 2015V Kumar
Regents Professor; Richard and Susan Lenny Distinguished Chair in Marketing, Georgia State University 
"Insights from Research in Social Media and Digital Marketing"
04 August 2015Joydeep Srivastava
Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing and Consumer Psychology, University of Maryland  
"When Does a Price Discount Backfire?Examining the Joint Effects of Price Discount and Shipping Charge on Consumer Evaluations"
02 April  2015Russell S.Winer
William Joyce Professor of Marketing, New York University
"New Insights from Neurophysiological Methods and Market Response Modeling"
20 March 2015Anirban Mukhopadhyay 
Associate Professor of Marketing,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"Lay Theories of Obesity: How Leanwashing Influences Consumers’ Body Masses"
13 January 2015Avi Goldfarb
Professor of Marketing,University of Toronto  
"Slack Time and Innovation"
06 January 2015Christine Moorman 
T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of Business Administration, Duke University
"Going Public: How Stock Market Listing Changes Firm Innovation Behavior"

Marketing Research Seminars 2014

DateSeminar Title
27 November 2014Min Zhao
Associate Professor of Marketing,University of Toronto 
"The Effect of Metaphor on Consumer Mindset and Decisions"
14 March 2014Jagdish N. Sheth
Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University 
"The Future Evolution of Relationship Marketing"

Marketing Research Seminars 2013

DateSeminar Title
05 December 2013Young-Hoon Park
AMOREPACIFIC Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Marketing, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
"Consumer Click Behavior at a Search Engine: The Role of Keyword Popularity"
10 June 2013Nathan Novemsky
Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management, Yale University
"Construal Level Theory in Gift Giving and Memory-Based Choice"
08 May 2013Lillian L. Cheng and Kent B. Monroe  
Lillian L. Cheng is an independent researcher in marketing strategy. Kent B.Monroe is the J. M. Jones Distinguished Professor
of Marketing  Emeritus, University of Illinois, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Richmond
"Understanding the Roles of Price as a Stimulus, A Signal, and a Cue"
03 April 2013Marnik G. Dekimpe 
Professor, Catholic University Leuven, Research Professor of Marketing & Center Fellow, Tilburg University
"New realities in the private-label landscape"
01 February 2013Robin Wensley 
Emeritus Professor of Policy and Marketing ,Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
"Researching Marketing Management:Two(im)possibilities in one"

Marketing Research Seminars 2012 

DateSeminar Title
31 July 2012Michel Tuan Pham
Kravis Professor of Business,Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
"Feeling the Future: The Emotional Oracle Effect"
18 July 2012Rajdeep Grewal
Irving & Irene Bard Professor of Marketing, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University 
"Modeling Service Quality, Price, and Performance at the Market Level: The Role of Potential and Realized Competition"
03 July 2012Shen Qiaowe
Assistant Professor of Marketing,The Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania 
"Dynamic Learning and Exit in Competitive Markets"
27 January 2012Irwin (Irv) Gross 
Professor Emeritus,Smeal College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University
"Customer Value in B-to-B Markets" - co-hosted by Centre of Marketing Excellence

Marketing Research Seminars 2011

DateSeminar Title
26 August 2011Raghunath Rao 
Assistant Professor, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin "Conspicuous Consumption and Dynamic Pricing"
22 June 2011Luo Xueming
Professor of Marketing,College of Business, Eunice & James L. West Distinguished Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington  "Modeling Customer Metrics, Strategic Marketing, and Firm Value: Past and Future of the Marketing-Finance Interface"
15 June 2011Narayan Janakiraman 
Assistant Professor, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona  "Effect of effort and deadlines on consumer product returns"
31 May 2011Amar Cheema
Associate Professor, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia "The Effect of Red and Blue Background Color on Willingness-to-pay: Aggression and the Moderating Role of Selling Mechanism"
29 April 2011Marnik Dekimpe
Professor, Catholic University Leuven, Research Professor of Marketing & CentER Fellow, Tilburg University "Rising from the Ashes: How Brands and Categories Can Overcome Product-Harm Crises"
11 March 2011Namwoon Kim
Professor of Marketing,  Faculty of Business,  Hong Kong Polytechnic University  "A Two Dimensional Framework Integrating Incumbent Entry Motivations"
14 January 2011Bernd Skiera
Chaired Professor of electronic commerce , Goethe University "Customer-Based Firm Valuation: Linking Customer and Financial Metrics to Shareholder Value"

Marketing Research Seminars 2010 

DateSeminar Title
14 December 2010Goutam Challagalla
Brady Family Associate Professor of Marketing and Area Coordinator for Marketing,Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology "The Threat from Within: Account Managers’ Concern about Opportunism by Their Own Team Members"
29 October 2010AV MuthuKrishnan
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Perceived Deliberation and Persistent Preferences for Previously Chosen Options "
29 July 2010Marnik Dekimpe
Professor, Catholic University Leuven, Research Professor of Marketing & CentER Fellow, Tilburg University "Sleeping With the Enemy:Does Private-Label Production by National-Brand Manufacturers Create Discounter Goodwill?"
10 June 2010Jagdish N Sheth
Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing , Goizueta Business School,  Emory University "Impact of Emerging Markets on Marketing"
20 May 2010Durairaj Maheswaran
Paganelli Bull Professor of Marketing and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University  "Nation Equity and Globalization"
22 February 2010Naufel Vilcassim
Professor of Marketing, London Business School "When Talk is “Free”: An Analysis of Subscriber Behavior under Two- and Three-Part Tariffs"
29 January 2010Sam Hui 
Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University  "Analysis of Path Data in Marketing with Applications to Grocery Shopping"

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