DCMA alums, if you are attending #ACR2023, come have breakfast with us on Saturday, Oct. 28 between 7:30 and 9:00 AM! There will be a reserved seating section near the lobby of the conference hotel marked with DCMA signage. No RSVP required. 😁 Association for Consumer Research (ACR)

🎉Our special issue on "Influencer Marketing: Interdisciplinary and Socio-Cultural Perspectives" in Journal of Marketing Management is here! Check out all 8 excellent articles in the issue: tandfonline.com/toc/rjmm20/39/… + we offer a *Influencer Marketing Symbiosis/Parasitism Framework* in our editorial ⬇️

Awesome to see our work in the Conversation France 🎉

BREAKING: 75k Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job today in what is set to be the largest health-care strike in U.S. history. The union say the company is not bargaining in good faith to address dire staffing shortages. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Excellent summary of our work. Thanks ESCP Knowledge

So, I spoke to people getting food at a food bank and here are some things I learned from those in need: 1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They can rarely use it because it needs milk and butter which is hard to get from regular food banks. 2. Boxed milk is a

“Fearlessness is a myth. Don’t wait for its arrival before doing what you must.”

Excited to see that "Wealth in People and Places," by #SamuelsonAppau (and yours truly), is unlocked at Journal of Consumer Research. We explore how people in the Global South use the transnational gift to build wealth in people and place. academic.oup.com/jcr/article/49…

BREAKING: UnitedHealth faces class-action lawsuit over algorithmic care denials in Medicare Advantage plans; suit cites Casey Ross Bob Herman investigation statnews.com/2023/11/14/uni… via STAT

The Marketing Group at Bayes Business School London, announces a one-day research symposium on Emergent Priorities in Consumption (#EPIC), to be held on September 25, 2024 – right before the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference in Paris. Save the date! 1/

The FDA has approved a powerful medicine that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease The devastating illness affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Learn about the #history of fast food and Black capitalism, as NEH Fellow Local D.C. park mom, now 45! discusses her #NEHgrant-funded and #PulitzerPrize-winning book, “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America,” with Humanities Magazine: neh.gov/article/marcia…

$70,000 / year as the #1 WNBA draft? After taxes you can barely afford a studio apartment in Manhattan. This can’t be normal. Someone who understands the sportsball please make it make sense.

So thankful for the wonderful support of @DrGiesler and Not here and you should get out too. By studying the cancer care market in the U.S., we show how consumers create value hierarchy which leads to inequality, and impacts how resources are distributed and the power and agency of consumers

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/scienc…

This is a very accessible summary of our recent paper! Thank you @DrGiesler

Amazing game! Venezuela did a great job in this Copa America. Congrats Canada 👍🏽