Boris Maciejovsky is an Austrian behavioral scientist, and an Associate Professor of Management at the School of Business at the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

. He is also the founder and managing partner at Greenleaf Analytics LLC, a behavioral management consultancy. His research focuses on behavioral economics and organizational decision-making.

Biography

Maciejovsky received his doctoral degree, studying the persistence of decision biases on experimental markets under the supervision of

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University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

in 2000. In 2009, he completed his second PhD, in marketing, under the supervision of

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. Maciejovsky held academic appointments at the

Humboldt-University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...

(2001), the

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of Economics (2001-2004), the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

(2007-2008), and

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(2008-2013), before accepting an appointment at the

in 2013.

Current work

Maciejovsky has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including

Management Science Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

, Organization Science, Marketing Science, the

Strategic Management Journal The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is a professional society for the advancement of strategic management. The society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. ...

, the

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The ''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association that was established in 1965. It covers the fields of social and personality psychology. The edi ...

, as well as

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes ''Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering organizational behavior and psychology. It was established in 1966 as ''Organizational Behavior and Human Performance'', obtaining its ...

. He has also given a

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talk on how loss aversion might improve healthy eating habits. Maciejovsky's work has been funded by

UK Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Str ...

and was awarded the 2014 Raymond S. Nickerson Prize by the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

. Maciejovsky has also received the Golden Apple Teaching Award at the

. In his current work, Maciejovsky is specifically interested in three major themes: (i) group decisions, learning, and knowledge transfer; (ii) information aggregation in social and organizational environments, and (iii) bargaining and negotiation. To study these areas, he mainly uses laboratory experiments with human participants and computer simulations. His regular collaborators include

, David Budescu,

Werner Güth Werner Güth (born 2 February 1944) is a German economist who, together with Rolf Schmittberger and Bernd Schwarze, first described the ultimatum game. He is currently Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ...

Markus Reitzig Markus Reitzig (born 1972) is a German organizational scientist, and professor of Strategic Management at the University of Vienna, where he has served as subject area chair since the group’s establishment in 2012. He is best known for his resea ...

, and

Birger Wernerfelt Birger Wernerfelt (born 1951) is a Danish economist and management theorist, and JC Penney Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for “A Resource-based View of the Firm” (1984), which is one of the most c ...

References

External links

Boris Maciejovsky's profile at the University of California, Riverside

Boris Maciejovsky's Google Scholar profile

Greenleaf Analytics Behavioral Management Consulting

TEDx talk on 25 July 2015
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