Elizabeth Keenan
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Elizabeth is visting Boston University Questrom School of Business for the 2023-24 academic year.
Elizabeth Keenan is an assistant professor of business administration in the Marketing Unit. She teaches the Purpose-Driven Marketing course in the MBA elective curriculum (EC) and previously taught the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum (RC). She is affiliated with the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership as well as with the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Professor Keenan’s research explores individuals’ prosocial choices and behaviors within the domains of charitable giving and environmental sustainability. Her research has been published in Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, and Nature Climate Change, and it has been cited by media outlets including NPR, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report.
Professor Keenan earned her PhD in marketing at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego; an MAS in marine biodiversity and conservation, also at UC San Diego; and a BS in biology at Loyola Marymount University. Prior to her doctoral studies, Professor Keenan spent ten years in nonprofit management and education at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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Email: ekeenan@hbs.edu
Additional Website: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=764108
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Marketing
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Outside Professional Activities
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