Samuel Bond
Area Coordinator of Marketing
Research
Education
Biography
Samuel Bond joined the Scheller College of Business in 2007. Professor Bond received his PhD from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. At Scheller, he teaches Marketing Management and Consumer Behavior at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and he participates in variouis custom executive education programs. In addition to his current role as Area Coordinator, Professor Bond has served as coordinator for the marketing doctoral program.
Professor Bond's research deals with consumer psychology and behavior. Much of his work focuses on the consequences of modern technology for consumer information processing and decision making. His work has been published in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Bheavioral Decision Making, and Decision Analysis.
Among various ongoing projects, Professor Bond is exploring the psychological aspects of product recommendation tools, interactive "smart" devices, and online decision aids. In addition, he is investigating how consumers process the emotional content of online reviews, social media and other online word-of-mouth. Professor Bond is examining the benefits and costs of specifying one's decision objectives before an important decision. He is also working on ways to improve comparison of hedonic measures (like "satisfaction") across diverse populations.
Professor Bond has received various awards recognizing his research and teaching activities. In 2012, he received the Best Publication Award from the Decision Analysis Society (INFORMS), for his paper "Improving the Generation of Decision Objectives," with Kurt Carlson and Ralph Keeney. In 2011, Professor Bond was voted MBA Core Professor of the Year by students in the full-time MBA program at Scheller. Professor Bond has received competitive research grants from the Marketing Science Institute, the Sloan Foundation, and the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.
Prior to his academic career, Professor Bond held positions in real estate banking and psychological research.
Featured publications
Bond, Samuel D., He, Stephen, and Wen, Wen (2019), “Word-of-Mouth Dynamics in Free Product Settings,” Journal of Marketing Research, 56(2) 276-90.
Yin, Dezhi, Bond, Samuel D., and Zhang, Han (2017). "Keep Your Cool or Let it Out: Nonlinear Effects of Expressed Arousal on Perceptions of Consumer Reviews," Journal of Marketing Research, 54(3), 447-463.
He, Stephen, and Bond, Samuel D. (2015) “Why is the Crowd Divided? Attribution for Dispersion in Online Word-of-Mouth,” Journal of Consumer Research, 41(6), 1509-1527.
Yin, Dezhi, Bond, Samuel D., and Zhang, Han (2014). “Anxious or Angry? Effects of Discrete Emotions on the Perceived Helpfulness of Online Reviews,” MIS Quarterly, 38(2), 539-560.
Bond, Samuel D., Carlson, Kurt A., and Keeney, Ralph L. (2008). “Generating Objectives: Can Decision Makers Articulate What They Want?” Management Science, 54(1), 56-70.