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Uzma Khan

Uzma   Khan
Associate Professor, Marketing
Uzma Khan
Associate Professor of Marketing
Academic Area: 
Marketing

Research Statement

Professor Khan's research interests fall in the area of behavioral judgment and decision-making. She uses psychological and economic principles to explain how consumers form preferences in order to understand and predict their behavior and to recommend successful managerial strategies. Her primary focus is on sequential and inter-temporal decision-making. She studies shopping behavior, self-regulation, and how consumers form perceptions of risk in financial and health domains.

Bio

Uzma Khan is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University where she held the Frank and Helen Risch Professorship in Business Chair and taught undergraduate and PhD level courses in Marketing.

Professor Khan received her PhD in Marketing from Yale University in 2005.

Professor Khan has consulted for clients in Airline, Education and High-tech industries. Professor Khan teaches Strategic Services Marketing in the Stanford MBA program. She has published both in leading Marketing and Psychology journals. Her research has won several awards including the prestigious American Marketing Association’s John A. Howard Dissertation award, and the SCP-SHETH Doctoral Dissertation Award. Professor Khan received the Young Scholar Award from Marketing Science Institute in 2011 recognizing her as likely leader of the next generation of marketing academics. 

Academic Degrees

  • PhD in Marketing, Yale University, 2005
  • MPhil, Yale University, 2005
  • MA, Yale University, 2005

Academic Appointments

  • At Stanford University since 2007
  • Assistant Professor in Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005-2007

Awards and Honors

  • Frank A. and Helen E. Risch Faculty Development Professorship in Business Chair, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
  • John A. Howard/AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award, Yale University, School of Management, 2005
  • SCP-SHETH Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention), Yale University, School of Management, 2004
  • WhiteBox Advisors Doctoral Fellow, International Center for Finance, Yale University, School of Management, 2004
  • AMA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Yale University, School of Management, 2002
  • Graduate Fellowship, Yale University, School of Management, 2000
  • Gold Medal (ranked first in Economic department), University of Peshawar, 1997
  • Roll of Honor and Faculty Record (ranked first in the Faculty of Arts), University of Peshawar, 1997
  • Prince of Wales Scholarship, United World College of Atlantic, U.K., 1990

Publications

Journal Articles

Eunice Kim Cho, Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Keller Center Research Report. September 2013, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Pages 505-516.
Eunice Kim Cho, Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Journal of Marketing Research. August 2013, Vol. 50, Issue 4, Pages 505-516.
Uzma Khan, Zakary Tormala. Journal of Consumer Psychology. July 2012, Vol. 22, Issue 3, Pages 408-417.
Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Sloan Management Review. March 2011.
Uzma Khan, Meng Zhu, Ajay Kalra. Journal of Marketing Research. February 2011, Vol. 48, Issue 1, Pages 62-71.
Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Journal of Marketing Research. December 2010, Vol. 47, Issue 6, Pages 1090-1099.
Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar, Svenja Schmidt. Sloan Management Review. April 2010.
A. Litt, Uzma Khan, Baba Shiv. Psychological Science. January 2010, Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages 118-125.
Ravi Dhar, Joel Huber, Uzma Khan. Journal of Marketing Research. August 2007, Vol. 44, Issue 3, Pages 370-378.
Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General. May 2007, Vol. 136, Issue 2, Pages 277-288.
Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar. Journal of Marketing Research. May 2006, Vol. 43, Issue 2, Pages 259-266.
Dale Griffin, Wendy Liu, Uzma Khan. Marketing Letters. December 2005, Vol. 16, Issue 3, Pages 321-333.

Book Chapters

Uzma Khan, Ravi Dhar, Klaus Wertenbroch. Inside Consumption: Frontiers of Research on Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires. Routledge, 2005, Pages 144-165.

Courses Taught

Degree Courses

2013-14

Every business has two kinds of problems: 1) Not having customers and 2) everything else. Marketing addresses the first problem. With increased access to information and fast-changing technology the role of marketing has broadened significantly....

This Ph.D. seminar provides coverage of the major research carried out in consumer research both in marketing and psychology. A vast set of topic will be covered including conscious and non-conscious consumer goals, motivations, emotions,...

2011-12

The goal of marketing is to provide value to customers and to recapture some of that value for the firm in the form of profits. The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the opportunities and challenges in creating, managing...

2010-11

In the Media

Journal of Marketing Research, October 1, 2007