Marketing Seminars

Find seminars on marketing that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

Marketing seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Winter 2026

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 13
12:00-1:15 pm
G101
Jay Van Bavel
New York University
Beyond the Echo Chamber: How Artificial Intelligence Can Both Entrench and Overcome Human Biases
Jan 21
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Maura Scott
Arizona State University
Improving the Refugee Integration Experience: Journeys and Turning Points in Service Ecosystems
Jan 28
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Bradley Shapiro
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Incentive Aligned Firearm Regulation
Feb 4
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Grant Donnelly
The Ohio State University
I’d Like Anything But Anchovies: Rejecting Unappealing Options Reduces Decision Difficulty in Joint Consumption
Feb 11
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Dennis Zhang
Washington University in St. Louis
Personalized Policy Learning through Discrete Experimentation: Theory and Empirical Evidence joint paper with Zhiqi Zhang, Zhiyu Zeng, and Ruohan Zhan
Feb 18
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Joowon Klusowski
Yale University
Prediction Horizon Effects on Trend Forecasts
Feb 25
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Kevin Lee
University of Michigan
Generative Brand Choice
Mar 4
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Ioannis Evangelidis
Esade
 
Mar 11
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Björn Bartling
University of Zurich
 

Spring 2026

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 8
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Madhav Kumar
Harvard University
 
Apr 15
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Gal Zauberman
Yale University
 
Apr 22
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Oliver Toubia
Columbia University
 
Apr 29
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
David Rand
Cornell University 
 
May 6
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Joe Gladstone
UC San Diego
 
May 13
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Lan Luo
University of Southern California
 
May 20
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Eric T. Bradlow
University of Pennsylvania
 
May 27
12:00-1:15 pm
TBA
Kosuke Uetake
Yale University
 

Fall 2025

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 24
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Luxi Shen
CUHK Business School
Oct 1
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Stephen Spiller
University of California, Los Angeles
Widely-Used Measures of Overconfidence Are Confounded With Ability
Oct 8
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Ryan Dew
University of Pennsylvania
Adaptive Preference Measurement with Unstructured Data: Discriminative and Generative Approaches
Oct 15
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Mohsen Foroughifar
Carnegie Mellon University
 
The Challenges of Deploying an Algorithmic Pricing Tool: Evidence from Airbnb

Joint paper with Nitin Mehta
Oct 22
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Alicea Lieberman
University of California, Los Angeles
joint paper with Kristen Duke
Oct 29
12:30-1:45 pm
C106
Ruru Hoong
Harvard Business School 
Calibrated Coarsening: Designing Information for AI-Assisted Decisions

Joint paper with Bnaya Dreyfuss 
Nov 5
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Rafael Batista
Princeton University
Words that Work: Combining AI and Behavioral Science to Generate and Refine Hypotheses from Text
Nov 12
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Malika Korganbekova
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business 
Bias-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization for Online Rankings: Demand-Side Approach to Supply-Side Efficiency*

Joint paper with Alibek Korganbekov and Aliya Korganbekova
Nov 19
12:00-1:15 pm
C106
Matteo Saccarola
UC Berkeley
Geographic Price Extrapolation, Learning, and House Search: Evidence from Danish Movers
Dec 3
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Megan Weber
University of California, Los Angeles
Heuristics and Biases in Preferences for Spending on Government Programs

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