Susan Fournier

Susan Fournier is Professor of Marketing, Questrom Professor in Management, and Faculty Director of the MBA Program at Boston University. Susan is credited with founding the brand relationships sub-field in marketing and claims six best paper awards to her credit, including the Long-Term Contribution Award in Consumer Research and Emerald’s Citations of Excellence Award for the top 50 articles in Management. Susan maintains a portfolio of research that explores the creation and capture of value through branding and brand relationships. Current projects explore the links between brand strategy and shareholder value, brand co-creation and consumer-generated advertising, the management of person-brands, the power and process of brand parodies, metrics for brand strength and brand community health measurement, attachment style effects on brand relationships, relationship dissolution, and the lived experiences of brand flings, abusive marriages, and secret affairs.

Susan is also the author of many best-selling Harvard case studies on branding. She is a long-standing member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Relationship Marketing, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, and Marketing Theory. She serves as Senior Consulting Editor for Journal of Brand Management and sits on the Senior Advisory Board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management. She is At-Large Director of the Association for Consumer Research. Susan consults with a range of companies to inform her teaching, case development, and research. Prior to joining BU, Susan served on the faculties of Harvard Business School and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She also held a VP/Director position at Young & Rubicam Advertising and served in market research roles at Polaroid Corporation and Yankelovich Clancy Shulman.