Farnoush Reshadi

Farnoush Reshadi

Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing), West Virginia University, 2020
M.B.A., University of Tehran, 2015
M.Sc. in E-commerce, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2012
B.S., Computer Engineering, Bu Ali Sina University, 2009
Expert Bio

Assistant Professor of Marketing Farnoush Reshadi teaches courses on consumer behavior and business applications of data mining. She studies how people make financial decisions, gift giving decisions, and the interaction of these decisions. Her expertise centers around consumer psychology, marketing, personal finance, and business administration. Professor Reshadi can comment on topics including consumer loans, lending practices, credit cards, gift giving, gift cards, and marketing. She has provided analysis for outlets including, Yahoo! Finance and USA Today on what people may not know about holiday gift giving, how to be a better gift giver, and her research on the motivations and factors driving our gift giving decisions. She has also been quoted in outlets including Axios on Wendy's plans to test dynamic pricing.

Yahoo! Finance
What's the hidden motivation behind the $50 gift card you put under the tree?

What are some of the thoughts and behaviors that drive our gift giving decisions? Farnoush Reshadi, assistant professor of marketing in The Business School, does research on gift giving and consumer behavior. In this Yahoo! Finance article, she explains some of her research, including how the wealth of the gift recipient affects how much a gift giver spends, and how people think about an item's price and benefits differently if they're purchasing the item as a gift rather than for themselves.

 

 

WalletHub
Ask The Experts: Purchase Protection Plans

Farnoush Reshadi, assistant professor of marketing in The Business School, provided answers to frequently asked questions about purchase protection plans, which are sometimes offered by retailers and credit card companies, for an article in WalletHub.

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