Professors

Valeria STOURM

Associate Professor

Customer Relationship Management, Customer Analytics, Sharing Economy Platforms

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Valeria STOURM

Academy

Transformation

Research center

Marketing Interactions

Location

Paris

Discipline

Marketing

Valeria Stourm is an Associate Professor of Digital Marketing at SKEMA Business School. Her research focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM), which she has studied in the contexts of sharing economy platforms, loyalty programs, and digital advertising. She has also studied the unintended consequences of customer analytics on societal inequality, environmental impact, and consumer privacy. 

Valeria has published at Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing ResearchInternational Journal of Research in Marketing and in a highly competitive special issue of Marketing Letters stemming from the best papers out of the selective Triennial Choice Symposium. Her research has earned approximately over 100,000 EUR in grants, and earned prestigious recognitions including  Winner for the Don Lehmann Award for “the best dissertation-based paper published in the past two years in Journal of Marketing or Journal of Marketing Research,” Finalist for the  Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award for “the article in the Journal of Marketing Research that has made the most significant long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice,” Finalist for the Paul E. Green Award for “the best article in the Journal of Marketing Research that demonstrates the greatest potential to contribute significantly to the practice of marketing research,” Finalist for the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Research Priorities Working Paper Competition, and Winner for the AMS Review-Sheth Foundation Annual Doctoral Competition, as well as honorable mentions for the AMA Mathew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award and the MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition. Valeria reviews for top journals including Marketing ScienceManagement ScienceJournal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Marketing

Prior to joining SKEMA Business School, Valeria was a faculty member at HEC Paris, where she was recipient of the Prix Bruno Roux de Bezieux pour l'Initiative Pédagogique in 2022. Valeria holds a PhD, MS and BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education
2016
PHD, Marketing, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
2012
Master of Science, Marketing, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
2010
Bachelor of Science, Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2025
Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2013
Yahoo! Labs Marketplace Researcher, Yahoo, United States of America
Other professional experiences
2016 - 2025
Assistant Professor, HEC Paris, France
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2023
ISMS Early Career Scholar
2023
AMS Review - Seth Foundation Annual Doctoral Competition, Winner
2021
B. Roux de Bezieux Prize for Pedagogical Initiatives, HEC Paris, France
2020
Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award for long-term contribution (finalist), American Marketing Association, United States of America
2018
MSI Research Priorities Working Paper Competition (finalist)
2016
Paul E. Green Award (finalist), American Marketing Association, United States of America
2016
Don R. Lehmann Award, American Marketing Association, United States of America
2015
AMA Mathew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award (honorable mention), American Marketing Association, United States of America
2015
MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition (honorable mention)
2010
University of Pennsylvania Class of 1939 Graduate Fellowship
Research Grants
2021
HEC Society & Organization Center
2020
LABEX Ecodec
2020
Vinnova, Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems
2017
HEC Foundation
2013
Baker Retailing Center, Wharton School
2013
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Data Grant
2011
Wharton Global Initiatives
Other research activities
Reviewer for:
Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2025
YES (Young European Scholars) Marketing Conference, Chair
2019
11th Triennial Invitational Choice Sympoisum, Workshop Chair, United States of America
Other academic activities
Since 2016
INFORMS Society for Marketing Science
Since 2016
American Marketing Association
Since 2016
European Marketing Academy (EMAC)