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Maria Rodas

Maria Rodas

Champaign, IL, USA

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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    Background

    Maria Rodas is an assistant professor of marketing and Shebik Centennial Faculty Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests focus on branding and cross-cultural and multicultural consumer behavior. In 2018, she received AMA’s Matthew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award. Prior to joining UIUC, she was an assistant professor of marketing at USC’s Marshall School of Business and received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Additionally, Maria received an MBA from Columbia University and spent a decade working in management consulting and in the consumer-packaged goods industry. Her industry experience is predominantly in brand management, having worked with brands such as Yoplait, Old El Paso, Wrigley’s Extra Gum, and Palmolive.


    Status
    Faculty
    Discipline
    Marketing

    Job experience

    • June 2021 - present
      Assistant Professor of Business Administration
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Champaign, IL, USA
    • June 2019 - June 2021
      Assistant Professor of Marketing
      University of Southern California
      Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • August 2013 - May 2019
      Assistant Professor of Business Administration
      University of Minnesota
      Minneapolis, MN, USA

      Ph.D. candidate (A.B.D.). Teaching Principles of Marketing. Research specializing in branding, cross-cultural consumer behavior, and consumer wellbeing.

    • June 2007 - July 2013
      Multicultural Marketing Manager
      General Mills
      Minneapolis, MN
    • September 2009 - August 2010
      Multicultural Associate Marketing Manager
      Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
      Chicago, IL
    • 2006 - 2006
      Assistant Brand Manager
      Colgate-Palmolive
      New York, NY

    Education

    • University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
      Ph.D.
      2013 - 2019
      Research interests: branding, cross-cultural consumer behavior, consumer wellbeing.
    • Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
      Master in Business Administration
      2005 - 2007
    • Harvard University, Harvard College
      Bachelor of Arts
      1998 - 2001