BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Communications at the Behavioral Science
Dave Nussbaum is the Director of Communications at the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. He is responsible for developing our blog and outreach strategy to the wider community.
Dave is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2008.
Dave is particularly interested in research on how people's sense of self and identity affects how they understand and interact with the world around them. In terms of policy, this often translates into tying behaviors such as environmentalism, voting, saving, and eating to core parts of people's identity as a means of making otherwise mundane behavior identity-relevant, and therefore a top priority.
Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji, Ph.D. is the Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy at Duke University. Ronnie works at the intersection of academia, public policy and business, investigating the most important forces shaping our economy and society. His primary appointment is in the Fuqua School of Business, from where he has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in the top journals in strategic management, economics, finance and organizational studies and two books, "Can Business Save the Earth?" (Stanford University Press) and "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth" (University of Chicago Press).
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Advisory Board
Adam Grant is an award-winning teacher and researcher, as well as Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on work motivation, prosocial giving and helping behaviors, job design and meaningful work, initiative and proactivity, leadership, and burnout.
Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Graham has written extensively and is considered an expert on issues including poverty, inequality, insecurity, the political economy of market reforms, subjective well-being, and the economics of happiness.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Board
- Robert Walmsley Professor of Law
Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley Professor of Law and the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the first Obama administration. In the early years of his career, Sunstein clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Among many other publications, Sunstein co-authored Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale University Press, 2008) with economist Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Special Projects Advisor
Connor Joyce is a Behavioral Researcher on the Workplace Analytics team at Microsoft where he is using data analytics and behavioral science insights to create better work environments. Connor is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of the Behavioral Science
- Founding Co - President
Craig Fox is the co-founder of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association, and co-editor of its flagship Journal, Behavioral Science & Policy (BSP). He is also the Harold Williams Professor of Management and Chair of the Behavioral Decision Making Area at the UCLA Anderson School. Additionally, has courtesy appointments as Professor of Psychology at the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, and Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Geffen School.
Dr. Fox is a former associate editor of Management Science and has served on editorial boards of Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Judgment and Decision Making and co-edited a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal. Fox is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the leading international research organization for behavioral decision research.
Professor Fox has taught courses in Choice Architecture, Managerial Decision Making, Negotiation, Leadership, Strategy, and Dynamic Management at UCLA. He has also previously taught courses at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Stanford University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, and Koç University in Istanbul. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Mannheim, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Fox's award-winning research has focused primarily on two broad topics. First, he studies judgment and decision making under risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Second, he studies choice architecture and its application to policy-relevant topics such as financial decision making and health care.
Job Titles:
- Financial Consultant With the Behavioral Science
Daniel J. Walters is a Financial Consultant with the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. In this role, Daniel assists in the research, construction and updating of the BSPA business plan and financial sustainability model.
Prior his PhD work Daniel had extensive experience in investment analysis and business plan forecasting. Starting his career as an investment banker in Mergers & Acquisitions at Citigroup, he eventually moved to a hedge fund where he covered over $200 million in investments across a range of small and mid-cap companies. Daniel holds a BS in finance, economics, and mathematics from the Stern School of Business at NYU, and a MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
Daniel is currently a PhD candidate at UCLA researching the psychology of financial decision making under uncertainty. Daniel also investigates how missing or unknown information impacts judgments of knowledge and how debt aversion informs intertemporal preferences. Through his research Daniel has discovered methods to increase patients for financial outcomes and reduce overconfidence in judgment.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Board
- New York Times Op - Ed Columnist
David Brooks became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer" and on National Public Radio.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Committee
David Schkade is the Jerome Katzin Professor of Management and Strategy at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the psychology of judgment and decision making, measuring subjective experience, and improving decision making.
The primary focus of Schkade's research is on the psychology of judgment and decision making, and how decision making can be improved. His scholarly work includes over 60 published papers and two books, including his most recent, "Are Judges Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary." He has studied a wide variety of issues, including the relationship between money and happiness, the design of information displays for decision making, how jurors make punitive damage decisions, the effect of ideology on the decisions of federal appellate judges, environmental resource valuation, valuation of health effects for cost-benefit analysis and why people choose to become organ donors.
Schkade's work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Hewlett Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Electric Power Research Institute, Exxon and IBM. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of several major journals and on review panels of the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency.
He has also served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, most recently on organ donation, and on cost-effectiveness of federal health-related policies, programs and regulations
He has won both research and teaching awards at the University of Texas and UCSD, and was selected to Who's Who in Economics 1990-2000. His research on punitive damages has been cited in numerous court cases, including opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the California State Supreme Court. His editorials, quotations and references to his work have appeared in numerous media outlets, among them The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, Time Magazine, CNN, UPI, Reuters, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, and BBC.
Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College and the Tepper School of Business. She is the faculty director of the Institute for Social Enterprise and Innovation and chair of Health Care Policy and Management program. Rousseau's research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. It informs critical concerns such as worker well-being and career development, organizational effectiveness, the management of change, firm ownership and governance, and industrial relations. Recognized in particular for developing the theory of the psychological contract , her work addresses the powerful reach individual employee's understanding of the employment relationship has on work groups, firms, and society.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the Booth School of Business
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of BIT Americas
Dr Michael Hallsworth is Managing Director of BIT Americas. Before his current role, Michael led BIT's global work on health and tax for five years. Michael was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the Cabinet Office of the UK government and has in-depth experience of both policy development and service delivery for national governments and international organizations. Michael has also been a leading figure in developing the field of applying behavioral science to government, having authored several influential frameworks such as EAST, Behavioral Government, and the MINDSPACE report (which has been cited more than 800 times to date). His work has been published in, among others, The Lancet, the Journal of Public Economics, and Nature Human Behaviour. He is the author of the book Behavioral Insights (MIT Press, 2020).
Michael has a PhD in behavioral economics from Imperial College London, and a First Class MA and MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Columbia University and an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London.
Dr. Jennifer Lerner holds the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professorship in Public Policy, Management and Decision Science at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the first psychologist in the history of the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. Professor Lerner also holds appointments in Harvard's Department of Psychology and Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.
Research: Drawing insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience, Lerner's research aims to improve decision making in high-stakes contexts and to expand the evidentiary base for designing policies that maximize human health, security, and wellbeing. Together with colleagues, Lerner developed a theoretical framework that successfully predicts the effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Applied widely, the framework has been especially useful in predicting emotion effects on perceptions of risk, economic decisions, and attributions of responsibility. For example, she and her colleagues discovered and explained why fear and anger - although both negative emotions - exert opposing effects on the perception of risk. In other lines of research, her work aims to improve risk communication and to reduce stress within organizational settings. Published in leading scientific journals (e.g., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), and collectively cited over 36,000 times in scholarly publications alone, Lerner's research also regularly receives coverage in popular media outlets (e.g., NOVA; the Wall Street Journal; and The New York Times).
Selected scientific awards: In a White House ceremony, Lerner received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers in early stages of their careers. She has also received the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award and the National Science Foundation's "Sensational 60" designation. (The 60 members in this latter group were designated as the most prominent American scientists whose first grants were NSF graduate school fellowships.)
Faisal Naru is a strategy and behavioral public policy practitioner with over 20 years global experience in public bodies, private sector and international organisations. He is the co-founder of Think.Test.Do which is a learning, discovery and enhancement partner to organisations globally.
Faisal was the inaugural Executive Director of the Policy Innovation Centre at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group with Rockerfeller Philanthropy Advisors, where he set up Africa's first national level "behavioural unit". Prior to setting up the PIC, Faisal founded the work at the OECD on Behavioural Insights including the landmark publication "Behavioural Insights in Public Policy" as well as being responsible for a number of OECD publications, guidelines and the Behavioural Map. At the OECD Faisal Naru also set up an internal behavioural capacity in the Executive Director's Office that applied behavioural science into management and organisational change.
Faisal is also Visiting Fellow on the Faculty of University of Cambridge, Judge Business School's El Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy. He serves on a number of International Committees and advises a number of governments and public bodies.
He is a former member of the UK Government's Cabinet Office, Head of Practice and Leadership Board Member for global development consultancy. He graduated from the University of Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy
Jason Doctor is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of Health Informatics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on the relationship between time and money, power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management and what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School
- Executive Committee
Joe Simmons is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has won awards for teaching Decision Processes and Managerial Decision Making, and he has two primary areas of research. The first explores the psychology of judgment and decision-making, with an emphasis on understanding and fixing the errors and biases that plague people's judgments, predictions, and choices. The second area focuses on identifying easy-to-adopt research practices that improve the integrity of published findings. Joe is also an author of Data Colada (http://datacolada.org), an online resource that attempts to improve our understanding of scientific methods, evidence, and human behavior.
John Seely Brown or as he is often called-JSB-is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte's Center for the Edge and a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC). A master integrator and instigator of productive friction, JSB explores the whitespace between disciplines and builds bridges between disparate organizations and ideas.
Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)-a position he held until June 2000. In his more than two decades at PARC, Brown transformed the organization into a truly multidisciplinary research center at the creative edge of applied technology and design, integrating social sciences and arts into the traditional physics and computer science research and expanding the role of corporate research to include topics such as the management of radical innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, and nano-technologies. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include digital youth culture, digital media, and the application of technology to fundamentally rethink the nature of work and institutional architectures in order to enable deep learning across organizational boundaries - in brief, to design for emergence in a constantly changing world.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Management
- Governing Board
Julia Lee Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. In this role, she serves as a faculty co-director for the Center for Positive Organizations, and is a faculty affiliate at the Sanger Leadership Center, and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise.
Julia's research focuses on the psychology of narratives, mindsets, and behavioral ethics, with a particular interest in understanding the ways in which narratives shape objective reality and how they can be leveraged to promote thriving in the workplace. Her research has been published in numerous leading academic journals in the fields of management and psychology, and has been featured in a variety of media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, National Geographic Magazine, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Harvard Business Review.
Julia enjoys developing highly immersive and experiential pedagogy for students and executives, and brings cutting-edge academic research to the classroom and the organizations she works with. She teaches a negotiation course to MBA students and lectures in several executive education programs on leadership development, managing global teams, negotiation, and decision-making at Michigan Ross and Harvard. She has also delivered talks and training programs for organizations including the U.S. Air Force, Google People Analytics, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, and the National Geographic Society. In 2020, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets and Quants.
In addition to her work in the business school, Julia is dedicated to applying her expertise in behavioral science to address pressing societal challenges. She has extensive experience advising corporations, start-ups, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, and currently serves as a Governing Board Member of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. Previously, she was a Lab Fellow in Institutional Corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and a Research Fellow in Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. In 2018, she was selected as a Fellow at National Geographic Society.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of the Behavioral Science
Kate Wessels is the Executive Director of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association, where she is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Association. In this role, Kate is accountable for executing the BSPA's mission and financial objectives, in addition to driving compelling events aimed at increasing the visibility of the Association internationally.
Prior to joining BSPA, Kate was an Account Director at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and held roles at London Business School, Imperial College Business School and the University of Cape Town. In these roles, Kate brought over a decade of global executive education experience generating innovative strategic solutions, development initiatives and designing/delivering learning and other organizational interventions for Fortune 500 companies and boutique clients.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics and Law, and a Bachelor of Commerce Honors degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape Town. She also holds a Masters degree in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Kate is interested in the potential that behavioral science has to impact health and wellness. A native South African, she had the opportunity to see first-hand extreme disparity between health care costs and outcomes. She is most excited about the opportunities inherent in value-based healthcare, and health care reform.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the Wharton School
- Executive Committee
Katherine Milkman is an associate professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and she has a secondary appointment as an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research relies heavily on "big data" to document various ways in which individuals systematically deviate from making optimal choices. Her work has paid particular attention to the question of what factors produce self-control failures (e.g., undersaving for retirement, exercising too little, eating too much junk food) and how to reduce the incidence of such failures. To watch Katherine give a 5-minute presentation about her research on motivating exercise, click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHnUc9Yudk) . She has also explored race and gender discrimination, focusing on how a decision's context can alter the manifestation of bias. And, she has examined what types of stories are published in The New Yorker as well as what New York Times stories are most widely shared (to see a presentation about what types of science stories spread, click here (link to: https://www.
Katherine is the recent recipient of an early career award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Her over two dozen articles in leading social science journals such as Management Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Journal of Finance have reached a wide audience through multiple op-eds in The New York Times and frequent coverage in major media outlets such as NPR, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and Forbes.
Katherine is the author of two of the 800 most downloaded papers (out of 500,000) on the Social Science Research Network and is also an associate editor for the Behavioral Economics Department at Management Science and a member of the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Editorial Board.
Job Titles:
- Senior Program Director and Managing Editor for the Behavioral Science
Kaye N. de Kruif is the Senior Program Director and Managing Editor for the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. In this role, Kaye is responsible for project management of conferences and events, marketing campaigns, and overseeing and coordinating the manuscript and publication process of Behavioral Science & Policy. Kaye works with the Editorial Board and Brookings Institution Press to ensure the timely and seamless production process. Kaye also provides support for promotions, workshops, briefings and related events, working closely with the BSPA Executive Director and partner organizations.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director of the Kahneman
Leslie Jennings Rowley is the Associate Director of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy in Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she runs the Sugarman Practitioner in Residence Program. She is a respected organizational engagement leader and content producer with a background in building new programs and sustaining key initiatives for mission-driven organizations. She began her career in the creative arts world-supporting the mission of San Francisco Opera by creating immersive experiences for established donors and the culturally curious alike. She then spent nearly twenty years in the educational travel industry, where she created and executed experiential learning programs for the likes of National Geographic, Lindblad Expeditions, and the Smithsonian Institution, causing Princeton University to ask her to build Princeton Journeys, which became one of the preeminent alumni travel programs in the U.S under her tenure. Upon the creation of the University's Kahneman-Treisman Center, she became its inaugural administrative director, linking academic insights in the behavioral sciences to real world issues. She continues to provide high-level communications and engagement strategy to the university and other organizations. Leslie holds an A.B. in economics and geography from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A. in international business, and a Ph.D. in media psychology.
Morela Hernandez is the Ligia Ramirez de Reynolds Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She also holds an appointment at U-M's Ross School of Business. Hernandez is an organizational psychologist doing important work at the intersection of leadership and diversity. She is an internationally recognized scholar with deep expertise in applying behavioral science insights to design and improve organizational systems and decision-making practices.
Hernandez is widely published in a number of top-tier academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Psychological Science. Her work has also appeared in media outlets such as Time magazine, the New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and The Washington Post, as well as featured on National Public Radio. She is on a number of editorial boards including Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology, and serves as associate editor for Academy of Management Review. Most recently, Hernandez was the Donald and Lauren Morel Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
At the Ford School, Hernandez teaches courses on leadership and diversity, and is the faculty director of the school's Leadership Initiative. She has worked as a leadership development coach for senior-level executives and consults with a number of government agencies, social profit organizations, and global companies on topics related to diversity and inclusion as well as large-scale organizational change. Hernandez received her PhD from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
A leading scholar and teacher of constitutional law and co-author of the casebook Processes of Constitutional Decision-Making, Paul Brest now focuses on judgment and decision making and philanthropy. He is the co-author of Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (2010) and Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (2008).
Professor Brest joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969 and served as dean from 1987 to 1999 before becoming president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2000. He returned to Stanford Law School in 2012, where, as an emeritus professor recalled to active duty, he is teaching Judgment and Decision-Making at the Law School and Impact Investing and Managing to Outcomes at the Graduate School of Business. Professor Brest is also collaborating with Professor Deborah Hensler in designing a law and public policy laboratory at Stanford Law School.
Professor Brest is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from Northwestern University School of Law and Swarthmore College. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, he clerked for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice John M. Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court, and did civil rights litigation with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Mississippi.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Board
- Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon
Paul Slovic is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Slovic studies judgment and decision processes, with an emphasis on decision making under conditions of risk. His work examines fundamental issues such as the influence of affect on judgments and decisions. He also studies the factors that underlie perceptions of risk and attempts to assess the importance of these perceptions for the management of risk in society. His most recent research examines psychological factors contributing to apathy toward genocide. Slovic is also a founder and President of Decision Research, where he and his colleagues study human judgment, decision making, and risk analysis. They have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. Slovic serves as a consultant to industry and government.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Board
- Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the Booth School of Business
Richard Thaler is Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He is also director of the Center for Decision Research. Thaler studies behavioral economics and finance as well as the psychology of decision making, which lies in the gap between economics and psychology. He investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human. Thaler is the co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein) of the global best seller Nudge in which the concepts of behavioral economics are used to tackle many of society's major problems.
Ricki Rusting is Editorial Director of Behavioral Science & Policy. She was an editor at Scientific American for 31 years, serving as managing editor for about half that time. She has two adult daughters and lives north of New York City with her husband, a developmental psychologist.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Board
- Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing
Robert Cialdini is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence, earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, are the result of decades of peer-reviewed research on why people comply with requests. Cialdini is also President of Influence at Work.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of the Behavioral Science
- Editor of the Academy of Management Annals
- Founding Co - President
- Professor of Management, Director of the Behavioral Science
Sim Sitkin is the co-founder of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association, and co-editor of its flagship Journal, Behavioral Science & Policy (BSP).
In addition, Sim is a Professor of Management, Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center and Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University. Previously at Duke, he served as Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education, Area Head for the Management and Organizations Department and Faculty Director of the Health Sector Management Program. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2010, International Network on Trust Research in 2010, and the Society of Organizational Behavior in 2013.
In addition to his BSP work, Sim is currently Editor of the Academy of Management Annals, Consulting Editor of Science You Can Use, and Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Trust Research. He has worked as a consultant and executive educator with many large and small corporations, non-profit and government organizations worldwide. His research has appeared in numerous journals, book chapters and books, including his most recent -Organizational Control (2010), The Six Domains of Leadership (2015) and Companion to Trust (forthcoming).
Prior to obtaining his PhD in organizational behavior from Stanford University, Sim spent over ten years in a variety of executive roles with responsibility for planning, information technology, financial administration, and research in consulting, non-profit, and government organizations.
Sim's research focuses on how organizational control and leadership affects a variety of outcomes for organizations and their individual members. Most prominently, he has examined the factors that influence trust in organizations and their leaders, a willingness to take risks and learn from mistakes, and how leaders and organizational systems can help individuals make sense of the complex and changing circumstances they confront when trying to make good decisions. Sim has applied this work across numerous industries - notably in high tech and health care organizations and in professional service firms.
Job Titles:
- Behavioral Scientist
- Executive
- Executive Committee
Todd Rogers is a behavioral scientist who is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is Director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab (www.s3rd.org).