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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Riverside, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of Cali ...

. 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 Erich Kirchler at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

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

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at the

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at the

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. Maciejovsky held academic appointments at the

Humboldt-University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, ...

(2001), the

Max Planck Institute The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

of Economics (2001-2004), the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

(2007-2008), and

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

(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 Marketing science is a field that approaches marketing''—''the understanding of customer needs, and the development of approaches by which they might be fulfilled''—''predominantly through scientific methods, rather than through tools and te ...

, 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 it ...

. 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 Science, Innovation and Technology ...

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

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

. 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

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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 Good ...

, Erich Kirchler,

Markus Reitzig Markus Reitzig (born 1972) is a German-Austrian 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 ...

, and Birger Wernerfelt.

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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