Q: How do I find people currently incorporating neuro (or neuro-ish) research in business schools and related settings? 

Here's a starting point - this list probably misses some people, and there are more every day...  

• Ada Aka: Marketing, Stanford GSB

• Adam Craig: Marketing, University of Kentucky

• Aiqing Ling : Marketing, University College, Dublin

• Amos Nadler : Finance, Ivey Business School

• Anastasia Buyalskaya: Marketing, HEC Paris

• Angelika Dimoka : Decision and Information Sciences, Bauer, University of Houston

• Bruce Doré: Marketing, Desautels, McGill University

• Camelia Kuhnen : Finance, Kenan-Flanagan, UNC

• Carolyn Yoon : Marketing, Ross School, Michigan

• Cary Frydman : Finance, Marshall, USC

• Center for Neural Decision-Making, Fox School, Temple

  • Crystal Reeck : Marketing

  • Vinod Venkatraman : Marketing

• Dar Meshi : Advertising and Public Relations (Comm), Michigan State University

• Dino Levy : Marketing, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University

• Drazen Prelec : Management (Marketing), MIT Sloan School of Management

• Elena Reutskaja : Marketing, IESE Business School

• Eric Johnson : Marketing, Columbia Business School

• Fadong Chen : Zhejiang University School of Management

• Felix Jan Nitsch: Marketing, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

• Feng Sheng : Zhejiang University School of Management

• Geoffrey Fisher : Marketing, SC Johnson School of Business, Cornell

• Hang Yee Chan: Marketing, King's College London

• Hye-Young Kim: London School of Economics

• Hilke Plassmann : Marketing, INSEAD, France

• Jesper Clement : Marketing, Copenhagen School of Business

• Jin Ho Yun : Marketing, New Mexico State University

• John Clithero : Marketing, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon

• Lisa Kramer: Finance, Rotman, University of Toronto

• Milica Mormann : Marketing, Cox School of Business, SMU

• Ming Hsu: Marketing, Haas, UC Berkeley

• Moran Cerf : Marketing/Exec Ed, Columbia Business School

• Nicolette Sullivan: Marketing, London School of Economics

• Ofir Turel, Information Systems  Management, University of Melbourne

• Paul Stillman: Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

• Rahul Bhui: Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

• Remi Daviet: Marketing, Wisconsin School of Business

• Rumen Pozharliev: Marketing, Luiss Business School / Temple University Rome

• Ryan Webb: Marketing, Rotman, University of Toronto

• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus

  • Ale Smidts : Marketing

  • Maarten Boksem : Marketing

  • Alex Genevsky : Marketing

• Sachin Banker: Marketing, Eccles School, University of Utah

• Sansuk Yoon: Marketing, University of Dayton

• Stephanie Smith, Marketing, Chicago Booth School of Business

• Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, UPenn

  • Elizabeth Johnson: Exec Ed (Marketing)

  • Gidi Nave : Marketing

  • Michael Platt : Marketing 

• Yonatan Vanunu : Marketing, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv

• Zhihao Zhang, Marketing, Darden, University of Virginia

Q: I'm interested in applying for jobs in the marketing job market. How do I find out about what's available? 

In general, the marketing job market starts with application packets that are due in late spring/early summer (June-ish). Based on these, schools used to invite candidates to in-person first round interviews at the summer AMA conference, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, that process is more diffuse. First round interviews are frequently now on zoom. (And my own institution, UCSD, sometimes doesn't advertise openings until as late as September.) 

 The American Marketing Association maintains ELMAR - a bulletin board where many (most?) schools post their job listings. You can subscribe to receive updates. The MarketingPhdJobs site appears to now be run by the Academy of Marketing Science, and does still seem to have active job listings. 

Opinions on how to best tackle the market vary - if you're not already involved in an academic marketing group, the most consistent advice is that you should find a mentor/friend who is a marketing professor who can help you understand the culture and nuance of the process at least 6 months (but ideally earlier) before you jump into applications. 

Q: I’m interested in going in to the field of consumer neuroscience. Do I need to get two PhD's? 

Short answer: Nope.

Long answer: Nope. But take a step back for a moment.  What is your end goal? 

You should do the most straightforward thing that puts you on the path to the outcome you want. If your goal is to have multiple doctoral degrees, then definitely look at what you need to do to get multiple PhDs!  If you want to train up so that you can get a job doing neuro-related or neuro-inspired research with data from real companies… well yes, you can sometimes do that as an academic, but you can also do that at Google or Ipsos or Toyota (yes, Toyota!), so don’t forget to check out your options at those places BEFORE enrolling yourself in 5+ years of scholarship focused on academic publishing. You might need a PhD for some of those jobs, but you might not. And if you do need a PhD, it might not be in the same field you would go for if you were planning on an academic career. 

 If you are an undergraduate student and you want to become a consumer neuro / neuroeconomics professor then look for faculty (in any department!) that do this kind of research. See what the PhD program they’re associated with looks like.  Are you interested in the classes they would ask you to take? Do the other professors in the department also sound interesting? Does the department and/or school appear to support interdisciplinary work?  Do you want to work in a business school? What do you want your day to day research experience to look like - should it be running experiments? Building models? Both? 

We are luckily at a a stage when there are exceptional interdisciplinary faculty in all kinds of departments – in most cases you can study the questions that interest you without having to stitch together multiple degrees.  

Q: Are there conferences where I can learn more about what current consumer neuro research looks like?

Here are a few! Definitely check out the past programs - a great sampling of many different people's research, and a quick way to find papers that might interest you. 

• Society for Neuroeconomics - ranges across a number of subfields, but has been an important community and source of career support for many of the faculty on the list above. For marketing in particular, it's useful to check out the resources related to the consumer neuroscience Satellite meeting. 

• Interdisciplinary Symposium in Decision Neuroscience - more focused on use of neuroscience in business domains and applied neuro. As of 2025, this conference is largely on hiatus, but the linked page has an example of the kind of work we do.