MSI Scholars Program
About the Program
The MSI Scholars Program was established to bring together a select group of mid-career level academics, with the purpose of recognizing individuals’ excellence in scholarship, developing a cohort across marketing disciplines, and strengthening ties between scholars and MSI.
The Scholars Event provides an exclusive forum for these prominent academics to share their work, discuss their latest thinking, and explore optimal partnerships between research and practice. Over the four-day conference retreat, the class will participate in the following activities:
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- Individual research presentations that offer opportunities for future study that could benefit from academic-practitioner collaboration;
- Integrative exercises building upon participant presentations, focusing on how MSI can better serve the academic field, and how the field can help MSI and its members;
- Excursions, networking, and opportunities for cohort building.
Eligibility Requirements
Eligible academics for the MSI Scholars program will be mid-career level researchers, specifically those scholars at or on the cusp of full professor, and within 10-13 years of first faculty appointment (for 2024 Scholars, this criterion implies those receiving their first faculty appointment between 2011 – 2014 are eligible). They should have a keen understanding of the importance of academic-practitioner partnerships and be prepared to share ideas for practical application.
Unfortunately, we can not accept applications outside the eligibility requirements.
Upcoming Scholar Schedule
We will start accepting the applications for the MSI 2024 Scholar HERE on July 1, 2024.
Conference Schedule: January 2-5, 2025. Park City, Utah.
Selection Process
The MSI Scholars will be selected by the Scholars Committees, and participation will be limited to approximately 30 individuals from the pool of applicants.
Selection is highly competitive. The committee will consider:
- A paragraph summary of the substantive contributions of the candidate’s two most important papers of past 5 years.
- Field service and leadership.
- Citations and other evidence of impact on the field of marketing (best article awards, etc.)
- Research productivity and quality in top business journals and relevant publications in adjacent disciplines.
- Relevance of research to the MSI member community and past involvement with MSI.
In selecting the 2024 class of MSI Scholars, the committee will seek a balance across the various sub-fields in marketing, and applications are open to other disciplines where appropriate (e.g., economics, statistics, psychology, and computer science) if the candidate is working on emerging business, technology, and public policy issues of interest to member companies.
Selections will be made in early autumn, 2024 at which time all applicants will receive notification from MSI and the Scholars Committee regarding their application for the Scholars Class of 2024. Selected scholars will be asked to commit to attending the conference as a firm condition for receiving this prestigious honor and should anticipate active engagement with MSI following the conference.
For any questions please contact research@msi.org.
MSI Scholars by Year
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Simon Blanchard, Georgetown University
Bryan Bollinger, New York University
Doug Chung, University of Texas at Austin
Cynthia Cryder, Washington University in St. Louis
Keisha Cutright, Duke University
Elea Feit, Drexel University
Daniel Fernandes, Catholic University of Portugal
Philip Fernbach, University of Colorado at Boulder
Frank Germann, University of Notre Dame
Henrik Hagtvedt, Boston College
Szu-chi Huang, Stanford University
Baojun Jiang, Washington University in St. Louis
Leslie John, Harvard University
Son Lam, University of Georgia
Brent McFerran, Simon Fraser University
Blakeley McShane, Northwestern University
Ravi Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cassie Mogilner, UCLA
Nailya Ordabayeva, Dartmouth College
Neeru Paharia Arizona State University
Anita Rao Georgetown University
Alok Saboo, Georgia State University
Navdeep Sahni, Stanford University
Adriana Samper, Arizona State University
Maura Scott, Florida State University
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago
Stephen Spiller, UCLA
Abigail Sussman, University of Chicago
Seshadri Tirunillai, University of Houston
Caleb Warren, University of Arizona
Song Yao, Washington University in St. Louis
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania
Georgios Zervas, Boston University
Yi Zhu, University of Minnesota -
Nidhi Agrawal, University of Washington
Paulo Albuquerque, INSEAD
Eva Ascarza, Harvard University
Rajesh Bagchi, Virginia Tech
Jonah Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Anindita Chakravarty, University of Georgia
Jeff Galak, Carnegie Mellon University
Kelly Goldsmith, Vanderbilt University
Vlad Griskevicius, University of Minnesota
Sam Hui, University of Houston
Ashlee Humphreys, Northwestern University
Yuwei Jiang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Anat Keinan, Boston University
Cait Lamberton, University of Pennsylvania
Anja Lambrecht, London Business School
Mitchell Lovett, University of Rochester
Kanishka Misra, University of California
Jian Ni, Johns Hopkins University
Yesim Orhun, University of Michigan
Raghunath Rao, The University of Texas at Austin
Joe Redden, University of Minnesota
Oliver Rutz, University of Washington
Aner Sela, University of Florida
Shrihari (Hari) Sridhar, Texas A&M University
Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford
Manoj Thomas, Cornell University
Claudia Townsend, University of Miami
Michael Trusov, University of Maryland
Oleg Urminsky, University of Chicago
Ralf Van Der Lans, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Echo Wen Wan, University of Hong Kong
Keith Wilcox, Columbia University
Karen Winterich, Pennsylvania State University
Hema Yoganarasimhan, University of Washington
Min Zhao, Boston College
2020 MSI Scholars Selection Committee:
Barbara Kahn, The Wharton School & Marketing Science Institute
Carl Mela, The Fuqua School of Business
Sherry Pincus, Marketing Science Institute
Earl Taylor, Marketing Science Institute
Rajdeep Grewal, University of North Carolina
Jeffrey Inman, University of Pittsburgh
K. Sudhir, Yale University
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Sinan Aral, MIT
Simona Botti, London Business School
Tony Cui, University of Minnesota
Rex Du, University of Houston
Rosellina Ferraro, University of Maryland
David Gal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anindya Ghose, New York University
Markus Giesler, York University
Brett Gordon, Northwestern University
Ryan Hamilton, Emory University
Kelly Haws, Vanderbilt University
Raghuram Iyengar, University of Pennsylvania
Kinshuk Jerath, Columbia
Zsolt Katona, University of California, Berkeley
Leonard Lee, National University of Singapore
Debanjan Mitra, University of Florida
Ashwani Monga, Rutgers University
Carey Morewedge, Boston University
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Harikesh Nair, Stanford University
Sridhar Naranayan, Stanford University
Oded Netzer, Columbia University
Robert Palmatier, University of Washington
Stefano Puntoni, Erasmus University
Rebecca Reczek, Ohio State University
David Schweidel, Georgetown University
Jiwoong Shin, Yale University
Suzanne Shu, UCLA
Deborah Small, University of Pennsylvania
S. Sriram, University of Michigan
Catherine Tucker, MIT
Sriram Venkataraman, University of North Carolina
Kenneth Wilbur, University of California, San Diego
Juanjuan Zhang, MIT
2018 Selection Committee:
Darren Dahl, University of British Columbia
Preyas Desai, Duke University
Katherine N. Lemon, Boston College
Carl F. Mela, Duke University and Marketing Science Institute
Gordon Wyner, Marketing Science Institute