Team

We Put Science First

Our team unites experts in the social sciences, medicine, computer science, and neuroscience who study human behavior creating the greatest interdisciplinary effort in history to solve the problem of enduring behavior change.

Katherine Milkman

Director of BCFG Savings and Health

James G. Dinan Professor
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
New York Times Bestselling Author

Angela Duckworth

Director of BCFG Education

Egbert Chang Professor
University of Pennsylvania
MacArthur Genius Award Winner
New York Times Bestselling Author

Shlomo Benartzi

BCFG Distinguished Senior Fellow & Team Scientist

Professor Emeritus
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Team

Team Scientists

Modupe Akinola

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Columbia University
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business

Dolores Albarracin

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor
Director, Science of Science Communication Division, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Hunt Alcott

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Stanford University
Professor of Global Environmental Policy
Professor of Economics (by courtesy)

Dan Ariely

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Duke University
James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
John Morgan Professor of Medicine; Medical Ethics; Health Policy; Health Care Management; and Operations, Information and Decisions
Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Susan Athey

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Stanford University
The Economics of Technology Professor
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Linda Babcock

Area of Focus: Education
Carnegie Mellon University
James Mellon Walton Professor of Economics and Department Head of Social and Decision Sciences

Max Bazerman

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration
Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School

Ron Berman

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of Marketing

John Beshears

Area of Focus: Savings
Harvard University
Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration

Cristina Bicchieri

Area of Focus: Education & Health
University of Pennsylvania
Sasha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology

Jon Bogard

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Alison Wood Brooks

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Hellman Faculty Fellow

Christopher J. Bryan

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of Business, Government, and Society

Alison M. Buttenheim

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women’s Health
Professor of Nursing and Health Policy

John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Colin Camerer

Area of Focus: Savings
California Institute of Technology
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics
MacArthur Genius Award Winner

Scott E. Carrell

Area of Focus: Education
University of California, Davis
Professor of Economics

Ben Castleman

Area of Focus: Education
University of Virgina
Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy
Founder and Director, Nudge4 Solutions Lab

Christopher F. Chabris

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Geisinger
Professor, Co-Director of the Behavioral Insights Team

Edward Chang

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Tom Y. Chang

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Southern California
Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics

Gretchen Chapman

Area of Focus: Health
Carnegie Mellon University
Professor of Social & Decisional Sciences

Keith Chen

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Behavioral Economics

James J. Choi

Area of Focus: Health & Savings
Yale School of Management
Professor of Finance

Nicholas Christakis

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Yale University
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science
Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science

Dolly Chugh

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
New York University
Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor of Management

Robert Cialdini

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Arizona State University
Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing
New York Times Bestselling Author

Geoffrey L. Cohen

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Stanford University
James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Business and Education
Professor of Psychology

Benjamin Converse

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
University of Virginia
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Psychology

Alia Crum

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
Stanford University
Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Medicine – Primary Care and Population Health

Cynthia Cryder

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Washington University in St. Louis
Associate Professor of Marketing

Hengchen Dai

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Management; Organizations; Behavioral Decision Making

Jennifer E. Dannals

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Yale School of Management
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Wendy De La Rosa

Area of Focus: Savings
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Stefano DellaVigna

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Berkeley
Daniel E. Koshland Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration

Jalpa Doshi

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Medicine
Director of Value Based Insurance Design Initiatives and Associate Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Leonard Davis Institute

Ravi Dhar

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Yale University
George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing
Director, Center for Customer Insights

Carol Dweck

Area of Focus: Education
Stanford University
Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
New York Times Bestselling Author

Dean Eckles

Area of Focus: Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Marketing

Ezekiel Emanuel

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Co-Director, Healthcare Transformation Institute Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School Biden COVID-19 Transition Team

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler

Area of Focus: Education & Health
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor in Management & Organizations

Emily Falk

Area of Focus: Education & Health
University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing

Ernst Fehr

Area of Focus: Education
University of Zurich
Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics

Eli J. Finkel

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Northwestern University
Professor of Psychology and Management & Organizations

Ayelet Fishbach

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago
Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

Gary Foster

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Chief Scientific Officer at Weight Watchers

Craig Fox

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Harold Williams Chair in Management
Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Behavioral Decision Making

Michele J. Gelfand

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Stanford Graduate School of Business
John H. Scully Professor in Cross-Cultural Management and
Professor of Organizational Behavior

Rachel Gershon

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
UC San Diego Rady School of Management
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Tom Gilovich

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Cornell University
Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Chair of Psychology

Francesca Gino

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Harvard University
Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration

Ayelet Gneezy

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of California, San Diego
Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Marketing

Uri Gneezy

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of California, San Diego
Professor of Economics and Strategic Management
Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics

Daniel Goldstein

Area of Focus: Savings
Microsoft Research
Principal Researcher and Assistant Managing Director

Noah J. Goldstein

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Management & Organizations, Psychology, and Medicine and Bing (’86) and Alice Liu Yang Endowed Term Chair New York Times Bestselling Author

Adam Grant

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management
Professor of Psychology
New York Times Bestselling Author

James Gross

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Stanford University
Professor of Psychology
Director of Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory

Kareem Haggag

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics

Crystal C. Hall

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Washington
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Governance

Johannes Haushofer

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Stockholm University
Professor of Economics

Jim Heckman

Area of Focus: Education
University of Chicago
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Law
Nobel Laureate Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Hal E. Hershfield

Area of Focus: Savings
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
Professor of Psychology

Tatiana Homonoff

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
New York University
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Service

Rick Hoyle

Area of Focus: Education
Duke University
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Director of the Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk and Resilience

Christopher K. Hsee

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

Alex Imas

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics

Jon M. Jachimowicz

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Harvard Business School
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Kirabo Jackson

Area of Focus: Education
Northwestern University
Abraham Harris Professor of Human Development

Leslie K. John

Area of Focus: Health
Harvard University
James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration

Eric Johnson

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Columbia University
Norman Eig Professor of Business

Joseph Kable

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology

Dean Karlan

Area of Focus: Savings
Northwestern University
Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance
Chief Economist of the United States Agency of International Development

Tim Kautz

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Mathmatica
BCFG Senior Fellow

Judd Kessler

Area of Focus: Education
University of Pennsylvania
Howard Marks Professor

Erika Kirgios

Area of Focus: Health, Education
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Ethan Kross

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Professor of Psychology and Management/Organizations

Howard Kunreuther

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
James G. Dinan Professor Emeritus of Operations, Information and Decisions
Co-Director Emeritus, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

Rahul Ladhania

Area of Focus: Health
University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics; Health Management and Policy; and Biostatistics

David Laibson

Area of Focus: Savings
Harvard University
Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics

Cait Lamberton

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Alberto I. Duran President’s Distinguished Professor – Professor of Marketing

Rick Larrick

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Duke University
Hanes Corporation Foundation Professor
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Thomas Lee

Area of Focus: Health
Harvard University
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management; and Medicine
Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey

Jennifer S. Lerner

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Management, & Decision Science

Emma Levine

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar

Steve Levitt

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

Neil Lewis, Jr.

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
Cornell University
Assistant Professor of Communication and Social Behavior

Alicea Lieberman

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Elizabeth Linos

Area of Focus: Education & Health
Harvard Kennedy School
Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management

John List

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago
Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics

George Loewenstein

Area of Focus: Health
Carnegie Mellon University
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology

Bridget Terry Long

Area of Focus: Education
Harvard University
Saris Professor of Education and Economics

Michael Luca

Area of Focus: Education
Harvard University
Lee J Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration

Jens Ludwig

Area of Focus: Cross Domain
University of Chicago
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor

Ulrike M. Malmendier

Area of Focus: Savings
University of California, Berkeley
Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics

Sandra Matz

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Columbia Business School
David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business

Nina Mazar

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Boston University
Professor of Marketing
Fellow, BU Questrom Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy

Barbara Mellers

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Pennsylvania
I. George Heyman University Professor of Marketing and Psychology

Michelle N. Meyer

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Gelsinger
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences
Faculty Co-Director, Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation
Associate Professor of Bioethics

Olivia S. Mitchell

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Pennsylvania
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Insurance and Risk Management Executive Director of the Pension Research Council

Cassie Mogilner Holmes

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Area of Focus: Health
Yale University
Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics

Don Moore

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Management

Carey K. Morewedge

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Boston University, Questrom School of Business
Professor of Marketing and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar

Sendhil Mullainathan

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Chicago
Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science
MacArthur Genius Award Winner

Mary Murphy

Area of Focus: Education
Indiana University
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor

Muriel Niederle

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Stanford University
Levin Professor of Economics

Michael Norton

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration

Ted O’Donoghue

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Cornell University
Zubrow Professor of Economics

Ziad Obermeyer

Area of Focus: Health
University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor

Axel Ockenfels

Area of Focus: Health, Education
University of Cologne
Professor of Economics
Director of the Excellence Center for Social and Economic Behavior and of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research

Gabriele Oettingen

Area of Focus: Education
New York University
Professor of Psychology

Paul A. O’Keefe

Area of Focus: Health & Education
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
Yale-NUS College
Associate Professor of Management & Organisation
Associate Professor of Psychology

Philip Oreopoulos

Area of Focus: Education
University of Toronto
Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Emily Oster

Area of Focus: Health
Brown University
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence
Professor of Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research Research Associate

Betsy Levy Paluck

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Princeton University
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Mitesh Patel

Area of Focus: Health
Ascension
Chief Clinical Transformation Officer National Vice President

Devin Pope

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Chicago
Steven G Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics

Stefano Puntoni

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing

Matt Rabin

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics

David Rand

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erwin H. Schell Professor
Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Co-Director of the MIT Applied Cooperation Team

Daniel Read

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Warwick Business School
Professor of Behavioural Science

Jason Riis

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
BCFG Senior Fellow

Jane Risen

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Chicago
H.G.B. Alexander Professor of Behavioral Science
John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow

Todd Rogers

Area of Focus: Education
Harvard University
Professor of Public Policy

Roy Rosin

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar Program Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Heather Royer

Area of Focus: Education & Health
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Economics

Silvia Saccardo

Area of Focus: Health
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences

Sally Sadoff

Area of Focus: Health
University of San Diego
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy

Anya Samek

Area of Focus: Education & Health
University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy

Laurie Santos

Area of Focus: Health
Yale University
Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College

Barbara Schneider

Area of Focus: Education
Michigan State University
John A. Hannah Chair and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education

Juliana Schroeder

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Associate Professor
Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values

Maurice Schweitzer

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Martin Seligman

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology Director of the Positive Psychology Center Former President of the American Psychological Association

Ovul Sezer

Area of Focus: Cross-Domian
Cornell University
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Anuj Shah

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Marissa Sharif

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Paschal Sheeran

Area of Focus: Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen J. Walsh Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Deborah Small

Area of Focus: Savings
Yale University
Adrian C. Israel Professor of Marketing

Jack Soll

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Duke University
Professor of Management and Organization

Dilip Soman

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics

Jann Spiess

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

Charles Sprenger

Area of Focus: Savings
California Institute of Technology
Professor of Economics

Bradley Staats

Area of Focus: Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor of Operations

Cass R. Sunstein

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Harvard University
Robert Walmsley University Professor

Gaurav Suri

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
San Francisco State University
Associate Professor of Psychology

Abigail Sussman

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Chicago
Professor of Marketing

Justin Sydnor

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Leslie P. Schultz Professor in Risk Management and Insurance

Richard Thaler

Area of Focus: Savings
University of Chicago
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics Nobel Laureate New York Times Bestselling Author

Harsha Thirumurthy

Area of Focus: Health & Savings
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Yaacov Trope

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
New York University
Professor of Psychology

Peter A. Ubel

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
Duke University
Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor of Business at Fuqua, Professor of Public Policy and Medicine

Lyle Ungar

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Bioengineering, Computer and Information Science, Genomics and Computational Biology, Operations and Information Management, and Psychology

Oleg Urminsky

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
University of Chicago
Professor of Marketing

Jay J. Van Bavel

Area of Focus: Health
New York University
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

Christophe Van den Bulte

Area of Focus: Cross-Domain
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Gayfryd Steinberg Professor and Professor of Marketing

Kevin Volpp

Area of Focus: Health
University of Pennsylvania
Janet and John Haas President’s Distinguished Professor
Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Leonard Davis Institute Member of the National Academy of Sciences Vice Chairman for Health Policy, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Team

We Put Science First

Our team unites experts in the social sciences, medicine, computer science, and neuroscience who study human behavior creating the greatest interdisciplinary effort in history to solve the problem of enduring behavior change.

Director of BCFG Savings and Health

Director of BCFG Education

Executive Director

BCFG Distinguished Senior Fellow & Team Scientist

Team

Manager of Research Operations

Research Project Manager

Research and Communications Coordinator

Research Coordinator

Research Coordinator

Research Coordinator

Team Scientists