Livestream: Dilip Soman & Catherine Yeung on "The Behaviorally Informed Organization"

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Book Synopsis: Every organization is fundamentally in the business of behavior change. Whether it be a government trying to get business to comply with environmental regulation, a business trying to get its customers to be loyal to their products, or a financial advisor encouraging a client to start saving for retirement, behavior change is critical to organizational success. Despite its centrality to organizations, we do not have a good scientific framework for behavior change or a good understanding of how organizations can embed insights from behavioral science into their operations. To overcome this void, this book develops an overarching framework for using behavioral science. It shows how behavioral insights (BI) can be embedded in organizations to achieve better outcomes, improve the efficiency of processes, and maximize stakeholder engagement.

This edited volume will provide an enterprise-wide strategic perspective of how governments, businesses, and other organizations have embedded BI into their operations. It is based on research by academics and practitioners from the Behaviorally Informed Organizations Partnership and will highlight ideas, pragmatic frameworks, and prescriptive outcomes, based on illustrative case studies. Featuring a foreword by Cass Sunstein, this book investigates key findings from BI, with an eye toward how it can be used to solve problems and seize opportunities in diverse organizations.

About Our Speakers: Prof. Dilip Soman is a Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics, and serves as a Director of the Behavioural Economics in Action Research Centre at Rotman [BEAR]. His research is in the area of behavioural science and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. He is the author of The Last Mile [University of Toronto Press] and teaches a massive open online course [MOOC] "BE101X: Behavioural Economics in Action" on EdX.

Prof. Catherine Yeung is Associate Professor of Marketing at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining CUHK in 2015, she was Associate Professor of Marketing at the National University of Singapore. Her research is in the area of behavioral science. She conducts academic and community-based research, which develops and evaluates interventions that aim at improving individual and community well-being. She works extensively with partners including government agencies, hospitals and healthcare centres, who are interested in deriving policy implications based on research findings.

Series Host: Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR) 

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