Faculty Expertise


Carlson marketing faculty are trustees of the future of innovation. Their knowledge is tapped by their peers and today’s leading companies, and their groundbreaking research is opening new areas of exploration in the field. Our professors shape the conversations on current affairs by leading international marketing organizations and serving on the editorial boards of today’s preeminent journals. Their work is ranked among the world’s most innovative. And their portfolio of original, cutting-edge research is the foundation of their singular reputation.


Marketing DepartmentFaculty
Associate Professor Rohini Ahluwalia
PhD, The Ohio State University
  • Negative advertising
  • Decision making
  • Branding and advertising
  • Persuasion
  • Negative information effects in the marketplace
  • Political advertising
Professor Mark E. Bergen
PhD, University of Minnesota
Carolyn I. Anderson Professorship in Business Education Excellence
  • Pricing
  • Private labels and store brands 
  • Cooperative marketing
  • Gray markets
  • Channels of distribution
  • Marketing strategy
PhD, University of Southern California
James D. Watkins Chair in Marketing
Co-Director of the Institute for Research in Marketing
  • Innovation
  • Product development
  • International business
  • Technology management
  • Marketing strategy
Assistant Professor Tony Haitao Cui
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Competitive strategy
  • Pricing
  • Trade promotions
  • Distribution channels
  • Behavioral economics
Assistant Professor Jane E. J. Ebert
PhD, Harvard University
  • Decision making
  • Inter-temporal choice and temporal discounting
  • Affect prediction
Assistant Professor Vladas Griskevicius
PhD, Arizona State University
  • Evolutionary biology and consumer behavior
  • Psychology of status competition and mating
  • Conspicuous consumption, charity, and altruism
  • Influence of specific positive emotions on behavior
  • Persuasion, advertising, and peer influence

Associate Professor Robert Hansen
PhD, University of Wisconsin

  • Marketing research
  • New product development
  • Business to business marketing
PhD, University of Illinois
Ecolab-Pierson M. Grieve Chair in International Marketing
Associate dean of international programs
  • Branding
  • Consumer behavior 
  • International marketing
  • Global marketing and branding
  • Cultural effects in marketing
  • Retailing
Professor Deborah Roedder John
PhD, Northwestern University

Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Marketing
  • Children's consumer behavior
  • Branding
  • Consumer behavior
  • Consumer information processing
  • Brand equity and brand extensions
Professor George John
PhD, Northwestern University

General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair in Marketing
Marketing Department Chair
  • Industrial marketing
  • Marketing of intellectual property
  • Technology markets
  • Marketing channels
  • High technology markets

Professor Barbara Loken

PhD, University of Illinois
  • Consumer behavior
  • Branding
  • Trademarks
  • Surveys
  • Consumer psychology
  • Brand Concept Maps
Professor Joan Meyers-Levy
PhD, Northwestern University
Holden-Werlich School-Wide Professor of Marketing
  • Visual marketing
  • Consumer information processing and psychology
  • Gender differences
  • Marketing communications and persuasion
  • Gender differences in information processing
Assistant Professor Prokriti Mukherji
PhD, University of Southern California
  • Models of learning through marketing communication
  • High technology marketing
  • Pharmaceutical industry innovation
  • Technological innovation
  • Marketing strategy
  • Business to business marketing
Associate Professor Om Narasimhan
PhD, University of Southern California
  • Competition
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Pricing
  • Channels of distribution
  • Innovation and competitive advantage in high technology markets
Professor Akshay R. Rao
PhD, Virginia Tech
General Mills Chair in Marketing
Director of the Institute for Research in Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Branding
  • Gas prices
  • Pricing
  • Judgment and decision making
  • Cultural issues in marketing
Assistant Professor Joseph P. Redden
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Satiation with repeated experiences and the reduction of satisfaction
  • Influence of multiple categories on judgments
  • Effects of complex price formats on perceived cost and product choice
Professor Kenneth Roering
PhD, University of Iowa
  • Market-driven new product development and commercialization
  • Marketing strategy and planning
  • Customer-inspired new product development
  • Interpersonal and interorganizational relations
  • Marketing strategy and priorities
Professor Robert Ruekert
PhD, University of Wisconsin
Associate dean of undergraduate programs
  • Marketing strategy
  • New product development
  • Brand management
Assistant Professor Carlos Torelli
PhD, University of Illinois
  • Global branding
  • Cross-cultural consumer behavior
  • Self-regulation
  • Persuasion

Associate Professor Kathleen D. Vohs
PhD, Dartmouth College
McKnight Land-Grant Professor

  • Self-regulation
  • Problems with spending
  • Dieting and disordered eating
  • Heterosexual sexual relations as predicted by economic principles
  • Self-processes such as self-esteem