Lauren Skinner Beitelspacher is an assistant professor in the Marketing Division at Babson College. Her research interests include: b​uyer-supplier relationships, retail management, and the retail supply chain. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, and Industrial Marketing Management. She also has presented her work at numerous conferences and won several best paper in track awards at the Society for Marketing Advances and Academy of Marketing Science. Lauren was named one of the Top 40 under 40 Business Professors by Poets & Quants in 2016.