Meet Your Professors

WILLIAM GOETZMANN (website)



PROFESSOR GOETZMANN IS AN EXPERT on a diverse range of investments, including stocks, mutual funds, real estate, and paintings. His research topics include forecasting stock markets, selecting mutual fund managers, housing as investment, and the risk and return of art. Professor Goetzmann's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, the Economist, Forbes, and Art and Auction. Professor Goetzmann has a background in arts and media management. As a documentary filmmaker, he has written and co-produced programs for Nova and the American Masters series, including a profile of artist Thomas Eakins. A former director of Denver's Museum of Western Art, Professor Goetzmann co-authored The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets.


ZOE CHANCE (website)



ZOË STUDIES PERSUASION AND DECISION MAKING, working passionately to understand how people can lead happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives. At Yale, Zoë teaches Mastering Influence and Persuasion, advises Center for Customer Insights consulting and research teams, and collaborates with Google and Optum Health


DAYLIAN CAIN (website)



DR. CAIN'S RESEARCH FOCUSES on "judgment and decision making" and "behavioral business ethics" – in other words, he studies the reasons that smart people do dumb things, good people do bad things. Cain is a leading expert on conflicts of interest, especially the "perverse effects of disclosing conflicts of interest." This work ties in with Cain's work on how to turn altruism on/off. Cain’s work has been discussed in The New Yorker, Forbes, the Washington Post, BusinessWeek, USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other top media outlets.


NATHAN NOVEMSKY (website)



PROFESSOR NOVEMSKY IS PROFESSOR OF MARKETING in the Yale School of Management and has an appointment as Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is an expert in the psychology of judgment and decision-making, an area that overlaps heavily with behavioral economics and consumer behavior. He has published articles in leading marketing and psychology journals on topics that include: how people made judgments and decisions based on the information in front of them, how they know what they like, how the way they frame decisions affects the choices they make, how they choose and evaluate gifts, how their goals influence their behavior and other topics in judgment and decision-making.



SHANE FREDERICK (website)



PROFESSOR FREDERICK'S RESEARCH focuses on preference elicitation, framing effects, intertemporal choice, and decision-making under uncertainty. Before coming to Yale SOM he was associate professor of management science at Sloan School of Management at MIT. Prior to MIT, he was a research associate and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University. Frederick holds a PhD in decision sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, an MA in resource management from Simon Fraser University, and a BS in zoology from the University of Wisconsin.


NICHOLAS BARBERIS (website)



PROFESSOR BARBERIS’ RESEARCH FOCUSES ON BEHAVIORAL FINANCE — in particular, on applications of cognitive psychology to understanding investor trading behavior and the pricing of financial assets. He has published extensively in the top economics and finance journals, gives frequent presentations about his work to both academic and non-academic audiences, and has won numerous awards for both research and teaching. Prior to coming to Yale, Professor Barberis taught at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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