The Wisconsin Ph.D. 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.

The department's core areas of research include quantitative modeling, consumer behavior, and marketing strategy. Our faculty members contribute to significant advancements in the theory and practice of marketing, as evidenced by our recently published journal articles.

Academic Requirements

In addition to meeting the UW–Madison Graduate School requirements, students should have the following:

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

General Ph.D. Requirements

In addition to meeting the requirements of the specific academic department, all students must meet the general Ph.D. requirements of both the UW–Madison Graduate School and the Wisconsin School of Business.

Marketing Coursework

Students complete four Ph.D. seminars in marketing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Research Methods Coursework

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
Research interests:
  • Choice models
  • Experimental design
  • Big data analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Bayesian statistics
Kevin YC Chung
Research interests:
  • Quantitative marketing
  • Empirical industrial organization
  • Choice models
  • Endorsement marketing
  • Emerging markets
  • Credence goods
Amber Epp
Research interests:
  • Understanding collective phenomena, including the interplay of relational identities, collective goals, and network agency
  • Group decision-making
Jan Heide
Research interests:
  • Channels of distribution
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Interorganizational relationships
  • Marketing strategy
Paul Hoban
Research interests:
  • Consumer response to advertising and promotion
  • Online marketing and electronic commerce
  • Word of mouth
  • Firm decision-making under competition
  • Bayesian methods
  • Structural econometrics
  • Empirical games
Noah Lim
Research interests:
  • Behavioral economics
  • Experimental economics
  • Third-party reviews
  • Conflict of interest issues in sales
  • Organizational buying and supplier management
Qing Liu
Research interests:
  • Quantitative modeling of marketing data
  • Bayesian methods
  • Experimental design
  • Conjoint analysis
  • Consumer choice
  • Big data analytics
Paola Mallucci
Research interests:
  • Behavioral and experimental economics
  • Social preferences
  • Pricing and contractual choices
  • Corporate social responsibility and public good creation
C. Page Moreau
Research interests:
  • Consumer learning and knowledge transfer
  • New product development and acceptance
  • Creativity and design
Thomas O’Guinn
Research interests:
  • Sociology of consumption
  • Brands
  • Commercial communication
  • Advertising and visual communication
Joann Peck
Research interests:
  • Haptics
  • Interpersonal touch
  • Non-verbal behaviors more broadly
  • Psychological ownership
  • Individual difference measures
Evan Polman
Research interests:
  • Consumer and managerial decision-making
  • Creativity
  • Ethics
  • Emotions
  • Psychology experiments
Robin (Rob) Tanner
Research interests:
  • Nonconscious influences on consumer choice and optimism
  • Implications of selective processing for consumer choice
J. Craig Thompson
Research interests:
  • Philosophy of science
  • Postmodern culture
  • Consumer lifestyles and motivations
  • Gender issues and consumption
Liad Weiss
Research interests:
  • Marketing and consumer behavior
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Social cognition
  • Self-concept
  • Categorization

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

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


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