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Marketing

About the Program

The Wisconsin PhD Program in marketing is designed to prepare students for academic careers at top universities. A career as a marketing faculty member offers a high degree of intellectual stimulation, creative freedom, and the opportunity to develop and disseminate new knowledge via research and teaching.

Core Areas of Research

Student research is supported by faculty in three core areas:

Quantitative modeling

Consumer behavior

Marketing strategy

Academic Requirements

All students must meet the general PhD requirements of both the UW–Madison Graduate School and the Wisconsin School of Business. Prospective students should possess:

  • A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management, economics, or operations and information management OR
  • A minimum of four courses from two or more of the following areas: accounting, finance, management, economics, and operations and information management
  • Competency at an intermediate level of statistics

Program Coursework

Students complete four PhD seminar courses in marketing from the core areas of research: quantitative modeling, consumer behavior, and marketing strategy. These seminar offerings vary from year to year.

Students complete four courses at the graduate level, either inside or outside the Wisconsin School of Business, including at least one course in the methods of data collection and at least one in the methods of data analysis.

Faculty Research Interests

Neeraj Arora

Neeraj Arora

Research interests:

  • Choice models
  • Experimental design
  • Big data analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Bayesian statistics
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Ishita Chakraborty

Ishita Chakraborty

Research interests:

  • Digital Marketing
  • Unstructured Data – Text, Video Analytics
  • Machine Learning/Deep Learning
  • Fairness and Bias
  • Salesforce Recruitment and Training
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Kevin Chung

Kevin YC Chung

Research interests:

  • Quantitative marketing
  • Empirical industrial organization
  • Choice models
  • Endorsement marketing
  • Emerging markets
  • Credence goods
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Remi Daviet

Remi Daviet

Research interests:

  • Deep Learning & AI
  • Bayesian & Computational Statistics
  • Consumer Decision Making
  • Advertising
  • Neuro-Genomics
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Amber Epp

Amber Epp

Research interests:

  • Understanding collective phenomena, including the interplay of relational identities, collective goals, and network agency
  • Group decision-making
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Cheng He

Cheng He

Research interests:

  • Causal inference
  • Policy evaluation
  • Modern retailing
  • Consumer search
  • Financial decision-making
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Jan Heide

Jan Heide

Research interests:

  • Channels of distribution
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Interorganizational relationships
  • Marketing strategy
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Aziza Jones

Aziza Jones

Research interests:

  • Status and Identity Signaling
  • Social-Signaling
  • Donation Behavior
  • Parental Spending
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Tarun Kushwaha

Tarun Kushwaha

Research interests:

  • Marketing – finance interface
  • Marketing channels
  • Impact of crisis
  • Global marketing
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Qing Liu

Qing Liu

Research interests:

  • Quantitative modeling of marketing data
  • Bayesian methods
  • Experimental design
  • Conjoint analysis
  • Consumer choice
  • Big data analytics
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Yi Liu

Yi Liu

Research interests

  • Technology and platforms
  • Economics of AI
  • Theoretical models in marketing

 

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Page Moreau

C. Page Moreau

Research interests:

  • Consumer learning and knowledge transfer
  • New product development and acceptance
  • Creativity and design
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Neil Morgan

Research interests:

  • Marketing capabilities
  • Brand Strategy
  • Marketing strategy
  • Marketing performance assessment
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Joann Peck

Joann Peck

Research interests:

  • Haptics
  • Interpersonal touch
  • Non-verbal behaviors more broadly
  • Psychological ownership
  • Individual difference measures
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Evan Polman

Evan Polman

Research interests:

  • Consumer and managerial decision-making
  • Creativity
  • Ethics
  • Emotions
  • Psychology experiments
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Craig J Thompson

J. Craig Thompson

Research interests:

  • Philosophy of science
  • Postmodern culture
  • Consumer lifestyles and motivations
  • Gender issues and consumption
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Connect With Current Students

We encourage you to contact our doctoral students in marketing to hear their perspectives on the Wisconsin PhD Program.

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See Our Placement Results

Graduates of our PhD specialization in marketing have accepted tenure-track positions at top research universities.

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Evan Polman

Evan Polman

Associate Professor
Marketing