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Michel Pham and Shiri Melumad winners of La Londe Conference Best Paper Award.

Defaults are one of applied behavioral science’s biggest success stories. Despite, or perhaps because of, the widespread use and success of defaults, a few important questions have remained in the background: How have defaults been implemented? Does it matter how they are implemented? This was the aim of a recent meta-analysis of all prior default studies conductd by the Center for Decision Sciences, which we recently published in Behavioural Public Policy (authors Jon Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke Weber and Eric Johnson). 

New Study Suggests National Pricing Models Can Yield the Highest Profits for Competitive Retailers.

Research from Columbia Business School reveals social networks are a more reliable predictor of fame than one’s creativity

Faculty members Stan Kachnowski, Michaela Pagel, Michael Slepian, and Keith Wilcox offer research insights into health and productivity.

Outsourcing tasks to smart products can reduce one’s sense of meaning and purpose, says the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business. 

Changes in the way we shop and what we buy are evolving at a furious pace. Here’s a look at trends sweeping the retail world. 

Employees may work less if they suspect a selfish motivation behind corporate social responsibility initiatives, says Professor Stephan Meier.