Scott Rick

Scott Rick is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow. His research focuses on money, relationships, and happiness. In 2024, his work on tightwads and spendthrifts was named one of the top 100 Big Ideas in the 100-year history of Michigan Ross. He has published research in premier journals spanning marketing, psychology, economics, and neuroscience. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. At Michigan Ross, he has won awards for both research and teaching, and he was a winner of the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. Rick's research has been covered extensively in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and NPR. His 2024 book, Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships, was published by St. Martin’s Press and has been translated into multiple languages. In 2025, Poets & Quants named him one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors.