Malika Korganbekova

Assistant Professor of Marketing
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Malika Korganbekova

Bio

Malika Korganbekova studies the impact of technology on society, retailing, and experimentation, drawing on methods from causal inference, machine learning, and empirical industrial organization. Her work focuses in particular on privacy, data regulation, and experimentation under privacy constraints. She holds a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Master’s degrees in economics from Pennsylvania State University and Central European University, and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before her PhD, she worked at Google, Morgan Stanley, and KPMG.

Research Interests

  • Experimentation
  • Data regulation
  • AI
  • Pricing
  • Causal inference
  • Digital platforms

Academic Degrees

  • PhD in Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2024
  • MA in Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 2018
  • MA in Economics, Central European University, 2015
  • BA in Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2013

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, August 2026-current
  • Assistant Professor of Marketing and Fishman Faculty Fellow, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2024-2026

Awards and Honors

  • Winner of ISMS Sheth Foundation Best Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2024
  • Winner of MSI Alden G. Clayton Best Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2023
  • Winner of Shankar-Spiegel Best Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2023

Professional Experience

  • Wayfair, 2020–2024
  • Google, 2015–2016
  • Morgan Stanley, 2015
  • Troika Dialog, 2013
  • KPMG, 2012–2013