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Tong Guo

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
Box, Durham, NC 27708
100 Fuqua Drive, A334, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Tong Guo is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and at the Department of Economics (by courtesy). Tong Guo studies the causal role of information in marketing and its policy implications, especially in the domain of healthcare, new technology and consumer protection. To do so, she uses a collection of methodologies from econometrics, machine learning, quasi-experiments, and online experiments. Her research explores the heterogeneous effects in healthcare marketing under the mandated information disclosure, consumer responses to misinformation in ads, moral hazard in airline loyalty programs, biotech adoptions, marijuana legalization and opioid prescriptions. She serves on the Editorial Board of Marketing Science.

Tong Guo is a faculty fellow at 2022 AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium, 2022 ISMS Early Career Scholars Camp Fellow, the finalist of the 2018 UM ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, the 2017 AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow, and the 2016 INFORMS Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow. 

Tong received her BS and BA at Peking University, her MA in Economics at Duke University, and her PhD in Marketing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At Fuqua, Tong teaches Strategic Brand Management in the Daytime MBA and Executive MBA programs. She also taught Marketing Core in the MMS programs and was recognized as the DKU Runner-Up for Excellence in Teaching in 2021-22.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2023 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Associate Professor of Economics · 2023 - Present Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Affiliate Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy · 2024 - Present Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

In the News


Published April 11, 2024
How the News Stories You Share Can Nudge Businesses
Published July 13, 2023
Too Costly to Cut: Why Companies Embrace Misinformation
Published July 6, 2022
The Influence of Frequent Flyer Programs

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Recent Publications


When Food Gets Political: How News Drives Green Food Offerings?

Journal Article NET Institute Working Paper · September 30, 2023 Cite

Debunking Misinformation about Consumer Products: Effects on Beliefs and Purchase Behavior

Journal Article Journal of Marketing Research · 2022 The prevalence of misinformation has spurred various interested parties--regulators, the media, and competing firms--to debunk false claims in the marketplace. This paper studies whether such debunking messages provided by these parties can impact consumer ... Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · 2018 Ph.D.