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How I Wrote This
A Journal of Marketing Research production
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How I Wrote This

With Brett Gordon & Karen Winterich

Behind the research process, one paper at a time

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About the Podcast

How the research came to be

“Publish or perish” — it’s a maxim that academics live by. But how does a paper become a publication? In each episode, marketing professors Brett Gordon and Karen Winterich speak with the authors of an academic marketing paper to get the backstory of how that paper came to be.

Hosted by the co-editors of the Journal of Marketing Research, each episode features candid conversations with authors about origin stories, methodological choices, and revision struggles behind their published work.

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Brett Gordon
Kellogg, Northwestern
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Karen Winterich
Smeal, Penn State
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