Nov. 30th, Chew Soo Hong, Ph.D. – How does familiarity breed investment? Abstract: In his 1921 Treatise on Probability, John Maynard Keynes offered a striking hypothesis about decision making under uncertainty: “… if two probabilities are equal in degree, ought we, in choosing our course of action, to prefer that one which is based on
Call it a warm welcome. Reggie Gilyard, the dean at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, is relatively new in town but has already been honored with one of Orange County’s hottest honors. Gilyard, who began his tenure as the 10th dean of the Arygros School in August, was named to OC Metro magazine’s
Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship will host its third annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner honoring Katherine “Kay” Napier, CEO of Arbonne International. The dinner will take place Feb. 27, 2013, in Chapman University’s Sandhu Conference Center. Kay Napier has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Arbonne International ─ a privately held
The MBA Career Management Center at the Argyros School of Business and Economics has reported that 80% of its MBA class of 2012 has received job offers within 3 months of graduation. With national unemployment rate hovering around 8 percent (and California’s unemployment rate at around 10%), the current job market can strike fear into
Nov. 9th, Uri Gneezy, Ph.D.– Incentives and Behavior Change Abstract: Economists often emphasize that “incentives matter.” The basic “law of behavior” is that higher incentives will lead to more effort and higher performance. Employers, for example, often use extrinsic incentives to motivate their employees. In recent years, the use of incentives in behavioral interventions has
Nov. 2nd, Glenn Harrison, Ph.D. – Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk Abstract: Measures of risk attitudes derived from experiments are often questioned because they are based on small stakes bets and do not account for the extent to which the decision-maker integrates the prizes of the experimental tasks with personal wealth. We exploit the