Angela Y. Lee
Faculty Director, Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
Angela Y. Lee is the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management. She is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a Marketing Science Institute Academic Fellow. Her research focuses on consumer motivation and persuasion, and nonconscious influences of memory on decision making. She applies psychological theories to understand health decisions, prosocial behaviors and moral conduct.
Areas: Health Decisions, Prosocial Behavior
Chethana Achar
Chethana Achar is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management and a consumer behavior researcher who studies social stigma and how it shapes consumption, focusing on public health marketing. Her research investigates a broad spectrum of beliefs about morality, including the strength of moral beliefs and variance in what people perceive to be moral and not moral.
Areas: Social Stigma, Morality, Health Decision-making, Emotions
Galen Bodenhausen
Galen V. Bodenhausen is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the Weinberg College of Art & Sciences and Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management. He studies consumer cognition, understanding the origins, nature, and consequences of consumer attitudes, identity concerns in judgment and behavior, the influence of prejudice and stereotypes on perception, judgment, memory, and behavior, and how emotional states influence decisions and preferences.
Areas: Social attitudes, Social Cognition, Social Identities, Emotional Influence on Decision Making
Lan Nguyen Chaplin
Lan Nguyen Chaplin is a Professor in Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She studies children’s consumer well-being, happiness, branding, materialism, gratitude and prosocial behavior. Her research has been featured by media outlets including TIME, Forbes, The New York Times, Fortune and National Geographic. She is the founder of QuanTâm, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping low-income children feel valued and develop a strong sense of self. She serves on the Partners Advisory Council at Cradles to Crayons (Chicago) and on the Board of Directors at Communities in Schools of Chicago.
Areas: Children’s Consumer Behavior, Materialism, Prosocial Behavior, Well-Being
Allison Henry
Allison Henry is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Impact and Director of the Golub Capital Board Fellows Program at the Kellogg School of Management. Her career has spanned the private, public, and social sectors. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of The People’s Music School. Her career started in consulting with Bain & Company, Mission Measurement, and the Civic Consulting Alliance. She later served as a founding partner of the venture philanthropy fund A Better Chicago.
Sean Higgins
Sean Higgins is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. He is an applied microeconomist interested in household finance, corporate finance, and development economics. He studies how technology reduces frictions in financial markets and the effect of reducing these frictions on households and small businesses. He received a BS and Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane University. Before joining Kellogg, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Areas: Financial Inclusion, Technological Impact on Financial Markets
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University and Co-Director of the Global Poverty Research Lab. He studies microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and behavioral economics insights. His work includes sustainable income generation for those in abject poverty, credit and savings markets for low-income households, agriculture for smallholder farmers, small and medium entrepreneurship, weight loss and smoking cessation, and charitable giving. Dean was named Chief Economist of USAID in November 2022 (Press Release).
Areas: How to give more effectively, Experimental work related to poverty issues in developing countries.
Brayden King
Brayden King is the Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment and a professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. He focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, organizational change, and legislative policymaking. He also studies how the reputations and identities of businesses and social movement organizations emerge and change.
Areas: Organizational Change, Social Movements and Corporate Policymaking, Economic Sociology, Emerging and Transforming Organizational Identities
Maryam Kouchaki
Maryam Kouchaki is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations. Her research focuses on understanding 1) the dynamic nature of moral decision-making and 2) how individuals psychologically experience everyday moral encounters, 3) charitable giving and receiving with an interest in how the delivery of aid impacts recipients, and 4) the complexity and challenges of managing ethnic and gender diversity for organizations.
Areas: Morality, Prosocial Behavior, Diversity in Organizations
Ivuoma Onyeador
Ivuoma Onyeador is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. Her research examines how dominant and non-dominant group members reason about group-based discrimination and disparities. Through her research program, she aims to increase people’s understanding of and willingness to address inequality.
Areas: Group-based Discrimination, Inequality
Lauren Rivera
Lauren Rivera is a Professor of Sociology at the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences and a Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She is an expert on workplace personnel practices, focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written extensively on hiring and promotion practices in elite professional service firms. She is currently working on various projects examining discrimination in public and private education.
Areas: Labor Markets, Discrimination, Interpersonal Evaluation, Inequality, Personnel Practices, Social Class, Gender, Education
Ike Silver
Ike Silver is the Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management. Drawing on theory and methods from consumer research and social psychology, his work investigates issues of moral and political signaling. Ike’s research explores how organizations and individuals communicate their moral values, take sides in polarized conflict, and share information about hot-button issues.
Areas: Moral Judgment, Political Psychology, Prosocial Behavior
Karen Smilowitz
Karen Smilowitz is the James N. and Margie M Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences with the McCormick School of Engineering. She focuses on the opportunities and challenges of introducing operational flexibility into logistics systems. She is interested in system efficiency and how increasing flexibility expands the set of operational choices (possible vehicle routes, load assignments, etc.), and how those complicate already complex routing and scheduling problems.
Areas: Operations, Industrial Engineering, Management Sciences
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber is the Thomas G. Ayers Chair in Energy Resource Management and a Progressor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. His research is grounded in cultural and institutional analysis and employs a range of methodological approaches. His substantive interests are the dynamics of organizational and institutional sustainability transitions, the interactions between social movements, corporations, and markets, and economic globalization.
Areas: Cultural and Institutional Theory, Social Movement and Organizations, Environmental Sustainability, Globalization and Development
Aaron Yoon
Aaron Yoon is an Assistant Professor of Accounting & Information Management at the Kellogg School of Management. He is interested in accounting for and quantifying a firm’s Environment Social Governance (ESG) efforts and integrating the information into the portfolio decision-making process. His research on ESG has influenced how investors view and integrate ESG information and methodologies.
Aaron was recently selected as one of the winners of Financial Times’ Responsible Business Education academic research award for his study on ESG practices and greenwashing. Financial Times Academic research award: tipping point for action January 15, 2023.
Areas: Quantifying Environmental Social Governance (ESG)