Kate Christensen
- Assistant Professor
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation Pre-Tenure Scholar
Campus: Bloomington
Biography
Professor Kate Christensen examines how connection to the past changes the decisions we make today. Her work on heritage
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Professor Kate Christensen examines how connection to the past changes the decisions we make today. Her work on heritage connection (connection to “the people who came before us”) has been conditionally accepted at the Journal of Marketing Research and was awarded the Xavier Dreze Prize. She also studies geospatial connection and has used smartphone data to analyze policing across 21 of America’s largest cities.
Christensen joined the Marketing Department at the Kelley School of Business in July 2021. She received her M.B.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA Anderson School of Management and her A.B. in History at Brown. Prior to entering academia, Kate led digital teams at The Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures Television. She teaches Creativity and Communication.
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Areas of Expertise
Time (Heritage Connection, Future Self), Policing (Geospatial Data, Officer Training), and Financial Decision-Making (Money, Saving, Trading)
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. in Marketing, University of California, Los Angeles
- M.B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
- A.B. in History, Brown University
Professional Experience
- Director of Digital Media, Sony Pictures Television
- Managing Producer, The Walt Disney Company
Awards, Honors & Certificates
- Trustees Teaching Award, 2022
- Innovative Teaching Award Finalist, Kelley School of Business, 2022
- Xavier Drèze Prize, 2021
- Fellow, AMA-Sheth Foundation, 2020-2021
- Fellow, Marketing Strategy Consortium, 2020
Selected Publications
- Christensen, K. L., and Shu, S. B. (2024). The Role of Heritage Connection in Consumer Valuation. Journal of Marketing Research, 61(3), 571-586. View Full Text
- Chen, M. K., Christensen, K. L., John, E., Owens, E., and Zhuo, Y. (2023). Smartphone Data Reveal Neighborhood-Level Racial Disparities in Police Presence. Review of Economics and Statistics, in press. View Full Text
- Zhang, J. C., Christensen, K. L., Leuchter, R. K., Vangala, S., Han, M., and Cryomans, D. M. (2022). Examining the Role of COVID-19 Testing Availability on Intention to Isolate: A Randomized Hypothetical Scenario. PLOS ONE, 17(2), e0262659.
Edited on July 1, 2024
