Aug 22 2017
I have just returned from Denmark as a participant in the first UNLEASH innovation lab. The purpose of the nine-day event was to create real, scalable solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals. Here is a link to an article I wrote prior to attending: A Nudge Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The massive event brought …
Jun 27 2016
In June I travelled to Toronto – my birthplace! – to participate in the 2016 Behavioral Decision Research in Management (#BDRM2016) conference. I really enjoyed the conference, which was bookended with an opening keynote by Ernst Fehr and a closing keynote by Elke Weber. The final conference dinner was held atop the amazing CN Tower with …
Nov 25 2015
This week I travel back to beautiful Sydney (where I lived for 25 years!) to present at the 2015 meeting of the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy, which is being hosted by my alma mater, UNSW. My talk is called “Probability-Based Loyalty Programs Increase Motivation”, which is work done together with my collaborators, Prof. Liyin Jin and Prof. Ying Zhang. …
Apr 11 2015
This week I travelled to Sydney to attend my first meeting of the World Social Marketing Conference. As noted in the conference program, my talk, titled “Aggregating Potential Collective Action To Motivate Pro-Social Consumption”, was scheduled for Monday 20 April at 11:30am in Seminar Room 4. The work is a collaborative venture with Prof. Rick Larrick at Duke University. The …
Dec 02 2014
This week I travelled to my first meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Marketing Academy, which was being held in Brisbane and hosted by Griffith University. As noted in the conference program, I was fortunate to give two talks: 1. “Judgment and Decision-making in Word of Mouth Communication” in the track enigmatically called “Consumer Behaviour – Other”. …
Nov 27 2014
This week I returned to the US (via Hawaii!) to present some of my work at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, which was held in Long Beach, California. It was great to see old friends from the Newell Lab, CRED, and those at Duke, and also make some new friends. I received some positive feedback on my …
Nov 14 2013
I’m excited to make my way over the US west-coast to participate in the 2013 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change conference, which is being held November 18-20 in Sacramento, CA. The conference is focused on understanding the behavior and decision-making of individuals and organizations and on using that knowledge to accelerate our transition to an …
Oct 23 2013
The energy efficiency gap refers to the difference between the optimal and actual level of energy consumption. Why don’t people invest in energy saving initiatives when it would benefit both the individual and society? I’m attending a research workshop conducted by the Duke University Energy Initiative and the Harvard Environmental Economics Program at the Harvard Kennedy …
Jul 10 2013
I’ll be giving a talk at the 2013 World Marketing Congress 17-20 July in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday July 17th. I am speaking in a session called 1.2. Consumer Behavior General, which will be held between 8.30 – 10am.
May 02 2013
On May 7th and 8th, Columbia University will hold an invitation-only Choice Architecture Workshop, designed to talk about nudges that go beyond simple defaults and also explore potential applications. I’m looking forward to hearing many interesting talks, especially those from Cass Sunstein, Eric Johnson, Dan Goldstein. Together with Christoph Ungemach, I will be giving a talk the afternoon of the …
