Worlds Collide: Neuroscience and Marketing Meet in the Classroom

Visual Marketing Lab

Wharton Professors Barbara Kahn and Elizabeth “Zab” Johnson wanted their students to have a modern approach to understanding consumer behavior in an increasingly digital world. So, they created MKTG 239/739: Visual Marketing, which combines the principles of visual neuroscience with the practical applications of marketing. But the innovative pedagogy doesn’t stop there. Read More

Case Studies at a Glance: McDonald’s

Analytics Accelerator Case Study Case Studies at a Glance: McDonald's About the Analytics Accelerator Every fall and spring semester, Analytics at Wharton hosts the Analytics Accelerator, an experiential learning program that pairs students with a company to solve a real-world business problem using the company’s actual datasets and the latestRead More

Automated Marketing Research Using Online Customer Reviews

Analytics at Wharton Research Automated Marketing Research Using Online Customer Reviews Market structure analysis is a basic pillar of marketing research. Classic challenges in marketing such as pricing, campaign management, brand positioning, and new product development are rooted in an analysis of product substitutes and complements inferred from market structure.Read More

Fall 2020 Analytics Accelerator A Global Affair

Despite disruptions caused by the pandemic, Wharton Customer Analytics successfully hosted its fifth (first virtual) Analytics Accelerator. Over the course of six weeks, student teams worked with real-world data to solve a unique challenge posed by their respective company sponsors.Read More

Sweet Solutions to Advertising Questions

Analytics Accelerator Case Study Sweet Solutions to Advertising Questions About the Analytics Accelerator Every fall and spring semester, Analytics at Wharton hosts the Analytics Accelerator, an experiential learning program that pairs students with a company to solve a real-world business problem using the company’s actual datasets and the latest techniquesRead More

Students Analyze Ferrero’s Advertising Spend Data to Help Improve ROI

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Nikki Bowser, WG’21, and Erin Breland, head of global business intelligence and analytics at Ferrero, discuss the Wharton Analytics Accelerator project Nikki’s student team pursued. The students looked at Ferrero’s TV product advertising across all markets to see if they could improve ROI.Read More

Principal Stratification for Advertising Experiments

Analytics at Wharton Research Principal Stratification for Advertising Experiments Advertising experiments often suffer from noisy responses making precise estimation of the average treatment effect (ATE) and evaluating ROI difficult. We develop a principal stratification model that improves the precision of the ATE by dividing the customers into three strata --Read More

Customer Acquisition via Display Advertising Using Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments

Analytics at Wharton Research Customer Acquisition via Display Advertising Using Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments Firms using online advertising regularly run experiments with multiple versions of their ads since they are uncertain about which ones are most effective. Within a campaign, firms try to adapt to intermediate results of their tests, optimizingRead More