Ravi Dhar is the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and the Director of the Center for Customer Insights, all at Yale University. He has been involved in pioneering work which seeks to understand the different factors that influence how consumers think and decide. He has also served as a consultant to dozens of Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, health care, high tech and luxury goods, helping clients to develop best practices for generating and using customer insights. Ravi has published more than 60 articles and serves on the editorial boards of several leading marketing journals.
The American Marketing Association recently ranked Professor Dhar as the most productive scholar publishing in premier marketing journals from 2009 through 2013. His research and teaching has been honored with various awards including the Distinguished Scientific Accomplishment Award of the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management, and the Yale School of Management Alumni Association Teaching Award. His work has been frequently mentioned in Business Week, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, USA Today, and other popular media.