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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
This episode of the BEworks Conversation series features a discussion with Nina Mažar. Nina is a Co-Founder of BEworks, a Professor of Marketing at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, and the Co-Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy.
In this conversation, Nina and Kelly discuss:
- The role of behavioral science research in addressing COVID-19 related challenges
- Productivity and well-being in the face of a pandemic
- The ethics of nudges and collecting data
- The importance of data on WFH and Return to Work
Nina Mažar is a Co-Founder of BEworks, a Professor of Marketing at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, and a Co-Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy. Her expertise lies in how expectations, emotions, peers, and random cues in the environment affect how we think about products, money, investments, and morality, and their implications for welfare, development, and policy.
One of the world’s leading behavioral scientists, Nina was named one of “The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World” and has published in leading academic journals. Nina’s work has been impactful in the public sphere, speaking around the world, and research featured in popular outlets like the New York Times. In addition to her central role at BEworks, Nina has brought behavioral science to bear on applied challenges as the Senior Behavioral Scientist of the World Bank’s behavioral insights team (eMBeD) and served as an advisory for other government boards and non-profits.
For more information about this episode, including the full transcript, visit our blog at https://blog.beworks.com/becurious/beworks-conversations-with-nina-ma%C5%BEar
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