Mohamed Hussein
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Areas of Expertise
- Consumer Behavior, Marketing, Media, Policy & Election
- Contact
- Office: 792 Kravis
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Links
- Personal Website
Dr. Mohamed Hussein is a faculty member in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School. Using survey experiments, conjoint analysis, and natural language processing techniques, he studies the psychology of persuasion, politics, and the intersection of the two. Dr. Hussein’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Personality and Social Psychology Review. Dr. Hussein has received numerous awards, including an award for excellence in teaching at Columbia and the Ferber Award (Honorable Mention) for the best dissertation-based article.
Before joining Columbia, Dr. Hussein earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Stanford GSB. At Stanford, he was chosen to be a member of the inaugural cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Before Stanford, he worked in economic consulting at Analysis Group and studied economics and mathematics at Middlebury College.
- Joined CBS
- 2024
All Activities
2025 Journal of Consumer Research Ferber Award Finalist (Honorable Mention)
Award Institution:
Journal of Consumer Research
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