PhD Students
PhD Program
The number of PhD students in our group is slightly more than the number of marketing faculty, but, when considered with all the faculty resources at MIT and MIT Sloan, the ratio is such that we provide very personalized attention. Students select their own advisors and establish a custom program to study the methods necessary for rigorous and relevant research. While much of the instruction is within the MIT Sloan School of Management, students are encouraged to take any course at MIT (or cross register at Harvard).
We believe in entrepreneurial learning. While the faculty might suggest research topics, the students are encouraged to explore new topics and learn new methods. Dissertations (we call them theses) often push well beyond a faculty member’s interests or expertise. As a result, our placements (and ultimately success at earning tenure) have been excellent. Our students have won dissertation awards from all of the major professional societies and our faculty and students are consistently nominated for and win best‐paper and long‐term interest recognition. We, and MIT in general, take pride in teaching our students to think independently.
Marketing PhD Students

Jenny Allen
B.A. Computer Science and Psychology
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B.S. Psychology, Economics, and Statistics; M.A. Computational Social Science
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Jason Du
B.B.A. Accounting; M.S.M.S Accounting
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Lei Huang
M. Econ; B.S. Information Management and Information Systems; B.A. Law
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Keyan Li
B.A. Economics; M.S. Economics
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B.A. Applied Mathematics and Statistics; M.S. Statistics
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Chengfeng Mao
B.S. Computer Engineering; M.S. Computer Science
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Cameron Martel
B.S. Cognitive Science
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Reed Orchinik
B.A. Economics
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Yifei Wang
B.A. Business Administration
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Hongshen Sun
B.Eng. Engineering Physics, M.S. Operations Research
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Joshua White
LL.B. Law & BCom. Finance, LL.M. Law, Grad. Dip. Psych. & Advanced Psych.
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Makoto Abe
Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
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Magid Abraham
CEO and co-founder of NeuraWell Therapeutics
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Yvan Allaire
Chair Emeritus of the Board of the Institute for Governance (IGOPP)
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On Amir
Professor of Marketing, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
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Eric T. Anderson
Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
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J. Scott Armstrong
Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
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Sachin Banker
Assistant Professor of Marketing at The University of Utah’s David Eccles School
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Ronit Bodner
Consultant, Combined Jewish Philanthropies

Jonathan Bohlmann
Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Poole College of Management, NC State
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Xinyu Cao
Assistant Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern
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Yinqun (Cathy) Cao
Doctor Of Philosophy in Management
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Jean-Marie Choffray
Professor of Operations, HEC-ULg Management School, University of Leige
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Simeon Chow
Independent Management Consultant
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James (Tianzhou) Duan
Product Manager with Qualtrics
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Daria Dzyabura
Associate Professor of Marketing (with tenure), New Economic School, Moscow
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Peter Fader
Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Fred Feinberg
Ross School of Business, Marketing Area Chair, University of Michigan
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Nathan Fong
Associate Professor of Marketing, Rutgers University School of Business – Camden
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David Godes
Dean's Professor of Marketing, University of Maryland
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Abbie Griffin
Presidential Prof. & Royal L. Garff Presidential Chair of Marketing, Utah
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Rebecca Hamilton
Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
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John R. Hauser
Management Science
Kirin Professor of Marketing
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John Hulland
Department Head, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
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Shlomo Kalish
Founding Partner, Jerusalem Global Ventures
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Ronit Ziv Kreger
Director of education and leadership development for Momentum
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Gurumurthy Kalyanaram
Professor CUNY, Adviser CUNY, NMIMS, GK Educational Services
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Thomas Krolikowski
In Memoriam

Madhav Kumar
Postdoctoral Associate @ MIT
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James Lattin
Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Gilles Laurent
Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Marketing, HEC Paris
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Leonard Lee
Dep. Director, Lloyd's Register for the Public Understanding of Risk, NUS
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Jimmy Li
VP at Goodwater Capital
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Xitong Li
Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management, HEC Paris
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Song Lin
Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Len Lodish
Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
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Boris Maciejovsky
Associate Professor of Management, University of California - Riverside
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Dina Mayzlin
Associate Dean for the Ph.D. Program & Professor of Marketing
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Daniel Mochon
Associate Professor of Marketing, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane
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Thomas Nelson
Economist, Vulcan Materials Company (Retired)
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Scott Neslin
Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing, Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth
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Cristina Nistor
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Clinical Faculty, Chapman University
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Eleanor Putnam-Farr
Asst. Professor of Marketing, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
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John H. Roberts
Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia
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Matthew Selove
Associate Professor, George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman
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Kristina Shampanier
Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon
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Jiwoong Shin
Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management
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Duncan Simester
Management Science
NTU Professor of Marketing
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Peng Sun
Dir. of Graduate Studies & J.B. Fuqua Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke
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Artem Timoshenko
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
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Olivier Toubia
Glaubinger Prof. of Business, Marketing Division Chair, Columbia Business School
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Ray Weaver
Executive consultant, The Whale Hunters, Co-Founder, Muse Paintbar
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Bruce Weinberg
Dept. Chair & Prof. of Marketing, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst
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Miguel Villas Boas
J. Gary Shansby Professor of Marketing Strategy at Berkeley Haas
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Jeremy Yang
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Shuyi Yu
Data Scientist at Google
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Robert Zeithammer
Professor of Marketing, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Florian Zettelmeyer
Professor of Marketing, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
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Yuting Zhu
Assistant Professor of Marketing at National University of Singapore
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