Elea Feit, PhD

Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor, Marketing
Expertise marketing

Elea Feit is an associate professor of marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.

Her research focuses on leveraging customer data to make better product design and advertising decisions, particularly when data is incomplete, unmatched or aggregated. Much of her career has focused on developing new quantitative methods and bringing them into practice, first working in product design at General Motors, then commercializing new methods at the marketing analytics firm, the Modellers, and most recently as the executive director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, where she built the academic-industry partnership program.

Feit brings a rich understanding of industry problems to her research, which has been published in top-tier journals including Management Science and the Journal of Marketing Research. She makes analytics accessible to a broad audience and is active in several practitioner conferences including the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference and the AMA Advanced Research Techniques forum. She regularly teaches popular tutorials and workshops for practitioners on marketing experiments, marketing analytics in R, discrete choice modeling and hierarchical Bayes methods as well as undergraduate and MBA classes in data-driven digital marketing.

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Is SEO Dead? The Time for Colleges and Universities to Master AI Search Is Now
Elea Feit, PhD, an associate dean for Research and associate professor in the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a July 25 Volt article about artificial intelligence driven search results and its impact on SEO results for higher education websites and marketing efforts.
Ad Spending Is Climbing Thanks to Tireless Consumers — And Artificial Intelligence
Elea Feit, PhD, an associate professor in LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a July 11 MarketPlace story about the impact of artificial intelligence technology on marketing and ad buying.
Ad Spending Is Climbing, Thanks To Tireless Consumers — And Artificial Intelligence
Elea Feit, PhD, an associate dean for Research and associate professor in the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a June 11 Marketplace story about the sharp increase in ad spending, despite a poor economic outlook, due in part to artificial intelligence.
Removing Third-Party Cookies: Good for You, or Good for Google?
Elea Feit, PhD, an associate dean for Research and associate professor in the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a Jan. 30 episode of KYW-Newsradio’s “In Depth” podcast on Google’s decision to remove third-party cookies from its internet browser and the impact on consumers and digital advertising.
Data Science Is The Key To Marketing ROI - Here's How To Nail It
Elea Feit, PhD, an assistant professor in the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a March 6 Forbes story about the role of data science in measuring the outcomes of the actions taken by marketers.
Drexel Professor Teamed up with Google for Research Project. Here's what they Found out.
Elea McDonnell Feit, PhD, an assistant professor in the LeBow College of Business, was featured in a Jan. 12 Philadelphia Business Journal story about research she co-conducted on what Google searches tell marketers about brand health.

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Photo of a person searching on Google What Do Google Search Queries Reveal About Brand Attitudes?
It has been widely thought that brand search volume — the counts of queries that a search engine receives from users that include specific brand names, like “iPhone” — can predict sales for that brand. Google makes this information available to marketers for free through Google Trends, an application that allows anyone to see how frequently popular brand names are searched, and it has become a valuable tool for marketers. But new research from Drexel University, Brigham Young University and Google shows there is a lot more to consider when looking at the large number of queries that include brand names.
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