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Ishita Chakraborty

Ishita Chakraborty

Assistant Professor | Marketing
Thomas and Charlene Landsberg Smith Faculty Fellow
4186 Grainger Hall

Harnessing the Power of AI to Help Businesses Grow

Ishita Chakraborty | Changing the Game in Marketing With AI | Wisconsin School of Business

About Ishita

Ishita Chakraborty joined the Wisconsin School of Business in July 2021 as an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department.

Her research has been published in Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing and Review of Marketing Research. Her doctoral dissertation papers have won/been finalists for prestigious American Marketing Association (AMA) awards like the Don Lehmann Award, AMA AI SIG Best AI paper award, John A. Howard /AMA Dissertation Award and Mary Kay/ Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Dissertation Award.

Professor Chakraborty’s research interests are in Large Language Models, AI, online platforms and unstructured data. Her research aims at developing algorithmic market research tools to derive richer, accurate and real-time insights from unstructured data.

Professor Chakraborty earned her B.E. in Computer Engineering at the University of Mumbai, her MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, and her PhD in Marketing at the Yale School of Management. Before her PhD, she worked in sales, brand management and consulting with Deloitte, Accenture and Mondelez International.

Selected Accepted Journal Articles

Chakraborty, I. & Arora, N. & Nishimura, Y. (2025). How to Generate Consumer Insights with Generative AI Sloan Management Review

Selected Published Journal Articles

Sikdar, S. & Chakraborty, I. & Doghonadze, N. & Sikdar, S. & Chakraborty, I. & Dogonadze, N. (2025). EXPRESS: Neither a Picasso Nor a Da Vinci: An Examination of Novice Artwork Pricing with Multi-Modal Data Journal of Marketing

Arora, N. & Chakraborty, I. & Nishimura, Y. (2025). AI–Human Hybrids for Marketing Research: Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as Collaborators Journal of Marketing

Chakraborty, I. & Chiong, K. & Dover, H. & Sudhir, K. (2025). Can AI and AI-Hybrids Detect Persuasion Skills? Salesforce Hiring with Conversational Video Interviews Marketing Science

Chakraborty, I. & Chiong, K. & Dover, H. & Sudhir, K. (2024). Can AI and AI-Hybrids Detect Persuasion Skills? Salesforce Hiring with Conversational Video Interviews Marketing Science

Chakraborty, I. & Kim, M. & Sudhir, K. (2022). Attribute Sentiment Scoring with Online Text Reviews: Accounting for Language Structure and Missing Attributes Journal of Marketing Research

Selected Submitted Journal Articles

Karaman, H. & Chakraborty, I. & Banerjee, S. (2025). How You Respond to Online Reviews Matters: The Effect of Management Responses on Ratings and Sales Journal of Marketing Research

Chakraborty, I. & deb, j. & oery, A. (2021). When do consumers talk Rand Journal of Economics

Practitioner-Oriented Publications

Lee, P. & Chakraborty, I. & Banerjee, S. AI Applications to Customer Feedback Research: A Review Review of Marketing Research: Special Issue on AI in Marketing

Presentations

Marketing Science Conference (2025) Enhancing Marketing Video Analysis with Multimodal LLMs and in-Context learning

AI: Beyond the Headlines (2025) AI: Beyond the Headlines

Centre for Software and Information Technology Management (CSITM) Seminar (2025) AI-Human hybrids

Marketing Leadership Institute, Board Meeting (2025) AI in Marketing

Editorial and Reviewing Activities

Marketing Science – Since January 2025
Editorial Board Member

Management Science – Since January 2025
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Marketing Research – Since January 2025
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Marketing – Since January 2025
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Consumer Research – Since January 2025
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Workshop on Platform Analytics – Since January 2025
Ad Hoc Reviewer

Marketing Science – Since July 2024
Editorial Board Member

On research

“It's the scale of the impact and how social media plays a role in magnifying the impact of all these conversations—that's what keeps me excited about digital platforms.”

Ishita Chakraborty

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