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2022
May 17, 2022
Behavioral Science in the Wild. Book Helps Managers to Implement Behavioural Change in Their Workplace.
2021
March 8, 2021
New Book Shows Organizations How to Incorporate Insights from Behavioural Science
2020
July 15, 2020
Behavioural Scientist from the Rotman School Named as a MSI Academic Fellow.
July 14, 2020
BEAR's 2020 Ph.D Awards was awarded to two Ph.D. students at Rotman on July 14, 2020.
May 15, 2020
Call for Submissions: BEAR Ph.D. Awards 2020-2021
January 28, 2020
World's Leading Behavioural Science Conference Comes to the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
2019
July 29, 2019
Research Project on Behavioural Economics Led by Rotman School Professor Receives Partnership Grant from the Government of Canada.
July 12, 2019
BEAR's
2019 Ph.D Awards
was awarded to two Ph.D. students at Rotman on July 12, 2019.
March 6, 2019
BEAR's Research Coordinator Melanie Kim was awarded
Impact & Innovation Award
at Rotman on March 6, 2019.
2018
November 26-27, 2018
BEAR hosted the
National Research Symposium on Financial Literacy
in partnership with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC
)
at Rotman on November 26-27, 2018.
October 11, 2018
TD Wealth a Founding Member of the Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman Centre
October 11, 2018
TD Bank Group Announces Support of Healthcare Innovation and Behaviour Economics Initiatives at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
September 28, 2018
BEAR co-hosted the
Behavioural Approaches to Diversity (BAD) Conference
with
Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)
at Rotman on September 28, 2018.
July 11, 2018
BEAR's
2018 Ph.D. Awards
was awarded to two Ph.D. students at Rotman on July 11, 2018.
May 17, 2018
BEAR's Director Dilip Soman was on
BNN Bloomberg on Money Talk: Investing and psychology
.
May 3, 2018
BEAR's Director Dilip Soman has been named as the
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics
by the Government of Canada.
February 19, 2018
The winning team of Manulife New Product Challenge: Market for Self-Control: The New Product Challenge was featured in the
Rotman Commerce News
.
2017
October 3, 2017
“Nudge-a-thon”
at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Tackles Public Transit Fare Evasion.
July 26, 2017
BEAR appointed
four professors at the University of Toronto
a
s new chief scientists.
June 19, 2017
BEAR's
2017 Ph.D. Awards
was awarded to two Ph.D students at Rotman on June 19, 2017.
May 26, 2017
BEAR co-hosted Rotman's 19th annual
Life Long Learning Conference: Nudging Creativity in Your Organization
on May 26, 2017.
May 25, 2017
BEAR co-hosted Brain to Society (BtS) Decision and Behavior Research Workshop with McGill University on May 25, 2017.
April 21, 2017
BEAR was featured in OECD's
Behavioural Insights and Public Policy: Lessons from Around the World Report
publication page.
March 30, 2017
BEAR's Co-Director Dilip Soman was on
BNN Money Talk
on Behavioural Finances.
March 28, 2017
BEAR team was invited to
Toronto Stock Exchange opening bell ceremony
celebrating the Global Money Week.
February 15, 2017
The winning team of BEAR's Market for Self-Control: The New Product Challenge was featured in the
Rotman Commerce News
.
January 11, 2017
Our Research Fellow Claire Tsai's advice on how to recover from that holiday spending hangover was featured in
Y
ahoo Finance Canada
.
2016
October 20, 2016
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) awards funding to BEAR to host the next
Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium
to take place on March 2017.
October 19, 2016
Our Research Fellow Avni Shah's talk on
The Pain of Paying
was featured on TVO's program
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
.
September 19, 2016
Our Behavioural Economics in Action Online Course
for a 6-week-University of Toronto alumnus special edition started on September 12th .
July 19, 2016
Our first collaboration with the Government of Ontario on Online Licence Plate Renewals was published in
the journal of the Behavioural Science & Policy Association
.
June 9, 2016
BEAR hosted the
2016 BDRM Conference
at the Rotman School of Management on June 9-11, 2016.
March 29, 2016
Our work on Online Consumer Privacy by Melanie Kim and Dilip Soman was featured in
The Globe and Mail
.
2015 and Earlier
December 9, 2015
Our Rotman Commerce student group in Marketing & Behavioural Economics course won the
“Methodology Prize”
in the Nudge Challenge Award 2015 by NudgeFrance!
November 30, 2015
A Nudge Challenge Video
made by one of the student teams in Marketing & Behavioural Economics course in University of Toronto has been nominated for the Nudge Challenge Award 2015 by
NudgeFrance
!
November 3, 2015
Rotman School professor and our BEAR co-director Nina Mažar
appointed Behavioral Scientist to the World Bank Global Insights Initiative
(GINI).
October 22, 2015
BEAR’s Co-Director Nina Mažar has been
announced to be a speaker at the TEDxToronto 2015 even
t. Her talk titled “
Are all our good intentions just cheap talk?
” will be on how to nudge authentic behaviour.
September 16, 2015
BEAR is the only non-US entity to be part of a group of scholars that will be advising the White House on applying Behavioural Insights to Policy!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/15/fact-sheet-president-obama-signs-executive-order-white-house-announces
“Adopting the insights of behavioral science will help bring our government into the 21st century in a wide range of ways – from delivering services more efficiently and effectively; to accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy; to helping workers find better jobs, gain access to educational opportunity, and lead longer, healthier lives.” — President Barack Obama, Executive Order, Sept 15, 2015
August 7, 2015
The Last Mile: Creating Social and Economic Value from Behavioral Insights
— Book by Dilip Soman, BEAR’s Co-Director
November 2012
Dilip Soman’s talk on “
Behavioural Economics and its implications for financial literacy and public policy
” at the Big Thinking Lecture Series of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa.
November 26, 2012
Financial Literacy is Not Enough
— Op-ed piece by Dilip Soman and Nina Mazar, The Hill Times.
2012
Dilip Soman’s talk on “
Using Psychology to Enhance Household Savings
” at the RAND Behavioral Finance (BeFi) Forum 2012 on the Promise and Challenge of Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Washington D.C.
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