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Areas of Expertise (11)
Marketplace Inclusion/Exclusion
Business
Corporate Social Responsbility
Marketing Research
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Consumer Behavior
Pro Social Behavior
Brand Relationships
Research Methodology in Marketing
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Vulnerable Consumers
Biography
Dr. Aronte Bennett specializes in consumer behavior and brand relationships, with research on corporate social responsibility, charitable donations, marketplace discrimination and brand perception. She teaches classes on marketing research and buyer behavior.
Education (3)
New York University: PhD
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: MBA
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: BS
Select Accomplishments (5)
Student Society Advisor of the Year (professional)
2016
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Paper Award (professional)
2016 Awarded for “Shopping While Nonwhite: Racial Discrimination in the Marketplace."
Villanova School of Business Research Excellence Honorable Mention (professional)
2016
Villanova School of Business Summer Research Award, (professional)
2014, 2016
Advertising Education Foundation Visiting Professor Program Participant (professional)
2013
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Affiliations (7)
- Board of Directors, Fund for the Water Works
- COO-Elect, Junior League of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Ad Club
- American Marketing Association
- Society for Consumer Psychology
- Race in the Marketplace Research Network
- The PhD Project, Marketing Ethnic Faculty Association
Select Media Appearances (5)
McDonald's CEO Faces Tall Task In Rebuilding Trust With Black, Brown Communities
Forbes
2021-11-11
"It makes me skeptical about everything they're trying to do," said Aronte Bennett, associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Villanova University School of Business. "It's scapegoating the exact same people it built its franchise upon."
'We got you.' Inside Phila.'s big push to market itself to minority visitors.
Philadelphia Business Journal
2018-08-17
Historically, tourism advertisements featuring minorities were rare, and the times they were featured they were “constrained or caricatured depictions,” said Aronte Bennett, associate chair of marketing and business law at Villanova School of Business. That’s changing, and destinations like Philadelphia and its accompanying marketing organizations are investing more in minority tourism, motivated by “a number of converging forces,” Bennett said.
After banner 2016, The Wildwoods is letting visitors be as 'wild' as they want to be
Philadelphia School of Business online
2017-04-07
The new campaign is designed to convey the strong emotional connection and feeling that visitors have for the Wildwoods, according to the tourism agency. The new campaign and tagline are examples of a balanced strategy, according Aronté Bennett, associate professor of marketing and business law at Villanova University School of Business.
That “shopping while black” feeling, charted
Quartz online
2016-01-16
Villanova University researchers Aronté Bennett, Ronald Hill, and Kara Daddario sought to put those feelings in concrete terms with a recent study titled “Shopping While Nonwhite: Racial Discrimination among Minority Consumers,” published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs last month.
'Shopping while black' lawsuit – a first by employees – targets CVS
Christian Science Monitor online
2015-06-04
In December, researchers at Villanova University near Philadelphia found that nonwhite Americans, and especially black Americans, experienced being racially profiled in retail stores, both by being wrongly detained or steered away from certain products. “We have a hard time recognizing these experiences that other people have, because we don’t notice them,” one of the researchers, Aronté Bennett, told Quartz in January. “Many consumers, minority and otherwise, don’t think that minorities are experiencing discrimination as a whole.”
Select Academic Articles (5)
Omission and Commission as Marketplace Trauma
Journal of Public Policy and MarketingAronté Bennett, Stacey M. Baker, Samantha Cross, J.P. James, Gregory Bartholomew, Akon Ekpo, Geraldine Henderson, Martina Hutton, Apoorv Khare, Abhijit Roy, Tony Stovall, and Charles Ray Taylor
2016
A Study of Social Equity within Bike Share Programs
Transportation LettersGavin, Kristin, Aronté Bennett, Amy Auchincloss and Anna Katenta
2016
Shopping While Nonwhite: Racial Discrimination in the Marketplace
Journal of Consumer Affairs,Bennett, Aronté, Ronald P. Hill and Kara Draddario
2015
The Impact of Disparate Levels of Marketplace Inclusion on Consumer-Brand Relationships
Journal of Public Policy and MarketingBennett, Aronté, Ronald P. Hill, and Daniel Oleksuik
2013
The Universality of Warmth and Competence: A Response to Brands as Intentional Agents
Journal of Consumer PsychologyBennett, Aronté and Ronald P. Hill
2012
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