Dr. Emily Garbinsky

Biography

Emily N. Garbinsky is an associate professor and behavioral scientist at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She earned her PhD in marketing from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 2015 and holds a BS in psychology and decision science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Garbinsky joined the Cornell faculty in July 2021, teaching Marketing Management and Brand Management at the MBA level. Prior to Cornell, she was an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, where she taught Principles of Marketing at the undergraduate level and Consumer Behavior at the MBA level. Her research focuses on consumer financial well-being and includes studies on how couples make financial decisions and how to motivate consumers to make fiscally responsible decisions. Garbinsky's work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Marketing. She has received several prestigious research awards, including the BMO Wealth Management Paper Award in 2017 and the JCP Paper Award Early Career Contributor in 2019. Furthermore, she was selected as a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar in 2021 and received the Society for Consumer Psychology Early Career Award in 2023. Her selected publications demonstrate her contribution to understanding the dynamics of financial decision-making in couples and the broader implications for consumer behavior.

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