Teaching
About me
I am a professor with 25 years of teaching experience in psychology and marketing.
Teaching Bio:
Zachary Estes (PhD, Princeton University) is Professor of Marketing, Director of Research for the Faculty of Management, and Co-Director of the Behavioural Research Lab at Bayes Business School, City University of London. He previously served on academic faculties in both psychology (University of Georgia, US; University of Warwick, UK) and marketing (Bocconi University, Italy), and he has been a visiting professor at Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). His theoretical and applied research on cognition, emotion, and consumer behavior has been published in popular media worldwide, including BBC Radio, Scientific American, New Scientist, Harvard Business Review, NewsWeek, BusinessWeek, MarketingWeek, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Forbes. He has consulted or collaborated with national and multinational companies and regulatory agencies across Europe, and he has served as expert witness on legal cases involving consumer behavior in several European nations. He is also the proud winner of teaching awards at the University of Warwick and at Bocconi University.
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Postgrad Certificate: Academic & Professional Practice
Courses and Teaching Evaluations
Brand Management (MSc)
Branding & Advertising (MBA)
Cognitive Science (undergrad)
Consumer Behavior (MSc, PhD)
Consumer Neuroscience (MSc)
Experimental Design (MSc, PhD)
Language & Thought (undergrad)
Marketing (MBA)
Psychology of Marketing (undergrad, MSc)
Sensory Marketing (MSc, MBA)
Teaching Awards
2016: Teaching Award, Bocconi University
Only 20 university-wide awards given annually among 650 staff
2013: Teaching Award, Bocconi University
Only 20 university-wide awards given annually among 650 staff
2012: 'Star of Warwick' Nominee, Warwick University Student Union
Fewer than 30 university-wide nominations among 1000+ staff
2008: Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, Commendation
Only 10 university-wide awards given annually among 1000+ staff
*I have not been eligible for teaching awards since 2020, because I have only taught MBA classes since then, and there are no teaching awards for MBA classes at Bayes.
Invited Courses
- 2023-current: Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Department of Marketing Management, Switzerland. Neuromarketing. 28-hour MSc course.
- 2019-2022: SDA Bocconi Business School, Italy. Consumer Behaviour. 20-hour private Masters course for managers of the Ferrero company.
- 2018: Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Marketing Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands. Sensory Marketing. 6-week MSc course.
- 2017-2018: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Consumer Neuroscience. 1-week undergraduate course.
- 2016: Swiss Summer School, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland. Winning the Publication Game: How to publish research in the social sciences. 1-week PhD course co-taught with Prof M Gibbert.
- 2015, 2018: Swiss Summer School, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland. Experimental Methods: from ideation to publication. 1-week PhD course.
- 2013: Cognitive Science Summer School, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Words: How do we understand them, and what are they good for? 1-week PhD course.