Dionne Nickerson

Dr. Dionne Nickerson is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Her research focuses on the impact of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) on marketing strategy. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Channels. In 2024, Dr. Nickerson was a finalist for the AMA Foundation Robert Lusch Early Career Research Award. Her 2022 Journal of Marketing publication was selected as a finalist for the 2022 AMA/Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award and 2022 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award for its contributions to marketing theory and practice. In 2018, she received the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in Marketing for her dissertation work.

Dr. Nickerson was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. She earned her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds an A.B. in engineering (Brown University) and an MBA (Providence College). Before becoming an academic, Dr. Nickerson worked in technology consulting, advising clean technology start-ups funded through the EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on marketing strategy, and taught English through the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF).