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How I Wrote ThisAttention Spillovers from News to Ads with Andrey Simonov, Tommaso Valletti, and Andre VeigaDoes the content of a news article influence the effectiveness of ads placed within it? In this episode, JMR Co-Editor Brett Gordon discusses the recently published paper, “Attention Spillovers from News to Ads: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Experiment,” with authors Andrewy Simonov (Columbia Business School),Tommaso Valletti, and Andre Veiga (both from Imperial College Business School). The idea for the paper was born in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the researchers learned that some advertisers were using “block lists” to prevent their ads from appearing on publishers' websites with pandemic-related news content. Did the advertisers have a point...2025-05-0949 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 18 - Insights from Social Media Post Histories with Verena Schoenmueller and Simon BlanchardWe all likely know that there’s valuable data in our social media posts, but just how can this be used? In this episode, JMR Co-Editor Karen Winterich talks with Verena Schoenmueller and Simon Blanchard about their paper, “Who Shares Fake News? Uncovering Insights from Social Media Users’ Post Histories,” co-authored with Gita Johar. What started out as a collaboration to understand the spread of misinformation led them to uncover the value of social media post histories. While user post history can indeed be useful in predicting fake news sharers, it likely holds much more insight for which this paper’s multi-m...2025-04-1147 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 17 Canary Categories with Ayelet Israeli and Eric AndersonEvery business knows that customers who spend more in the past usually spend more in the future. But what if there are some products for which the opposite is true? That is, seeing a customer buy one of these categories means they are less–not more–likely to return to you. JMR Co-editor Brett Gordon speaks with Ayelet Israeli (HBS) and Eric Anderson (Kellogg) to learn about “canary categories,” as in “canary in a coalmine,” which predict exactly this type of behavior. Tune in to learn more about how the authors navigated a complex revision journey.2025-03-1048 minHow I Wrote ThisEp.16 A Look Back on Corporate Social Responsibility with Sankar SenEver wonder if those papers with 1000’s of citations are easy to publish? In this episode, JMR Co-Editor Karen Winterich chats with Sankar Sen from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business to look back at this oldie but well-cited goodie: Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better? Consumer Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility, published in 2001 by Sankar and CB Bhattacharya, before CSR was a hot topic. Then listen in as they discuss how authors can develop research streams and consider future research opportunities regarding corporate social responsibility.2025-02-1654 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 15 Mini Part 2, How To Be A Good ReviewerIn part to of this special mini episode. Brett and Karen break down the review process and share insights from two current JMR reviewers. 2025-01-2136 minHow I Wrote ThisEp 15: Mini Part 1, The Lives of Co-EditorsOn this special mini episode of How I Wrote This, Karen and Brett take you behind the scenes to hear about what it's really like to be a co-editor for a journal. 2025-01-1223 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 14 - Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive? With JP Dube, Gunter Hitsch, and Peter RossiBrett Gordon sits down with JP Dube and Günter Hitsch from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Peter Rossi from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. They discuss their influential paper, “Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?” Since the 1960s, marketing and economics scholars have studied switching costs, with theoretical literature largely suggesting that these costs lead to higher prices among competing firms. However, when these three researchers conducted an empirical analysis, they found surprising results that challenged the prevailing wisdom. Join them as they share how their project evolved over time, including their measured res...2024-12-0939 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 13 - Rachel Gershon and Zhenling Jiang talk Referral ContagionKaren learns how Rachel Gershon and Zhenling Jiang merged their behavioral and quantitative skillsets to identify the robust effect of referral contagion. Their findings are published in their paper “Referral Contagion: Downstream Benefits of Customer Referrals” in JMR.2024-11-0629 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 12 - Generative Interpretable Visual Design with Ankit Sisodia, Alex Burnap and Vineet KumarBrett talks to Ankit Sisodia, Alex Burnap and Vineet Kumar about their forthcoming JMR paper “Generative Interpretable Visual Design: Using Disentanglement for Visual Conjoint Analysis.”
2024-10-0946 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 11 - Mitigating Food Waste with Huachao Gao, He (Michael) Jia, and Bingxuan GuoOn the first episode of Season 2, Karen talks to authors Huachao Gao, He (Michael) Jia, and Bingxuan Guo about their paper “Resources Available for Me Versus Us: Implications for Mitigating Consumer Food Waste.”
2024-08-1346 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 10 - Learning to Set Prices with Yufeng Huang, Paul Ellickson, and Mitch LovettIn the final episode of season 1, JMR Co-Editor Brett Gordon speaks with Yufeng Huang, Paul Ellickson, and Mitch Lovett about their paper Learning to Set Prices. 2024-05-2850 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 9 - Star Ratings and Research Transparency with Annika Abell, Carter Morgan, and Marisabel RomeroJMR Co-editor Karen Winterich talks with Annika Abell, Carter Morgan, and Marisabel Romero about the impact of star ratings relative to numerical ratings. Their findings are published in “The Power of a Star Rating: Differential Effects of Customer Rating Formats on Magnitude Perceptions and Consumer Reactions”. You’ll also want to hear how their experience complying with the new JMR Research Transparency policy when their manuscript was conditionally accepted.2024-04-2844 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 8 - Joyce Liu and Anirban Mukhopadhyay on Favorite Possessions and Well-BeingIn Episode 8, JMR Co-editor Karen Winterich talks with Joyce Liu and Anirban Mukhopadhyay from Bayes Business School, City, University of London about how they, along with coauthor Amy Dalton, developed an idea from movie night into a JMR publication, “Favorite Possessions Protect Subjective Well-Being Under Income Inequality”. The article finds effects of income inequality on feelings of deprivation can be attenuated by focusing on a favorite possession, but we’ll hear how the idea started out with a different focus before the role of favorite possessions became clear. You’ll want to listen to learn why the final submission of this article i...2024-03-1939 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 7 - Debunking Misinformation with Jessica Fong, Tong Guo, and Anita RaoIn Episode 7, JMR Co-editor Brett Gordon talks with Jessica Fong (University of Michigan), Tong Guo (Duke University), and Anita Rao (Georgetown University) about their forthcoming paper, “Debunking Misinformation about Consumer Products: Effects on Beliefs and Purchase Behavior” (SSRN version). Perhaps you’ve seen a toothpaste ad that claimed their brand didn’t contain any toxic ingredients. Of course, this implies that their competitors do use toxic ingredients, which for most major brands isn’t true. This is precisely the type of misinformation the authors wanted to study: Does it increase consumers’ willingness-to-pay? Can a debunking message counteract the false claim? This team of...2024-02-2733 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 6 - From Friends to Co-Authors with Kaitlin Woolley and Peggy LiuIn Episode 6, JMR Coeditor Karen Winterich talks with Kaitlin Woollley, Associate Professor of Marketing at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Peggy Liu, Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business about how they, along with co-author Daniella Kupor, developed the idea for their 2023 paper, “Does Company Size Shape Product Quality Inferences? Larger Companies Make Better High-Tech Products, but Smaller Companies Make Better Low-Tech Products”. As the title implies, this intriguing article explains why consumers perceive high-tech products to be higher quality when made from...2024-01-1233 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 5 Harvard Business School's Eva AscarzaBrett talks to Eva Ascarza about her paper “Retention Futility: Targeting High Risk Customers Might be Ineffective,” published in JMR in 2018. Eva is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is a co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 Institute at HBS, and she is an expert on customer management. Share your thoughts about the show at HIWTpod@gmail.com -- Brett and Karen would love to hear from you!2023-12-1342 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 0 - Trailer"Publish or perish” — it’s a maxim that we academics live by. But how does a paper become a publication? How do researchers take a rough idea and craft it into a draft? And how do they navigate the publication process, with all the bumps and bruises along the way? In each episode of “How I Wrote This,” marketing professors Brett Gordon and Karen Winterich speak to the authors of an academic marketing paper to get the backstory of how that paper came to be.
2023-12-1301 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 4 - How Vicarious Touch Made it from Hibernation to PublicationIn Episode 4, Karen talks with Andrea Webb Luangrath and Joann Peck about their 2022 paper “Observing Product Touch: The Vicarious Haptic Effect in Digital Marketing and Virtual Reality”. After Andrea developed the idea in a doctoral seminar over a decade ago, the project hibernated for a few years before she and Joann brought it back to life. Knowing the paper addressed a relevant question digital marketers were interested in plus a theoretical gap, they’ll talk about how they pushed forward post-rejection and worked with coauthors William Hedgcock and Yixiang Xu to bring this now well-cited paper to publication.2023-11-0139 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 3 – Stephan Seiler, Anna Tuchman, and Song Yao discuss Soda TaxesJoining Brett this month are Stephan Seiler (Imperial College London), Anna Tuchman (Northwestern University), and Song Yao (Washington University in St. Louis) to talk about their paper, “The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-Through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects,” published in the Journal of Marketing Research in 2021. Soda taxes are a relatively new phenomenon, and this paper was among the first to provide a rigorous evaluation of their efficacy. You’ll hear how the project came together and what the authors learned about handling feedback during the review process.2023-09-2152 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 2 - Martin Mende and Maura Scott talk Service RobotsIn the second episode, join Karen Winterich’s interview with Maura Scott and Martin Mende as they talk about transporting a 600-pound robot through the streets of New York City to make realistic stimuli for their 2019 JMR paper, “Service Robots Rising”. When their paper was first rejected at another journal, they took the reviewer feedback seriously and substantially revised the paper to increase the realism of their studies before submitting it to JMR, which was ultimately published and is currently the most well-cited JMR publication since 2018.2023-08-0742 minHow I Wrote ThisEp. 1 - Judy Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin on Online ReviewsIn the first episode, Brett speaks with Dina Mayzlin and Judy Chevalier to talk about their 2006 JMR paper, “The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews.” You’ll hear how a seemingly innocuous post-seminar question turned into this successful collaboration, which eventually landed them the 2011 O’Dell Award for making a significant long-term contribution to marketing. 2023-08-0740 min