Stephan Meier
James P. Gorman Professor of Business; Chair of Management Division
Management
MA and PhD, University of Zurich
Joined CBS in 2008
Office:
926
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Stephan Meier is currently the chair of the Management Division and the James P. Gorman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich, was previously a senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich. His research interest is in behavioral strategy. He investigates the impact of psychology and economics on human decision-making and its implications for public policy and firms' strategy. Current research topics include how non-selfish behavior affect organizations or the effect of borrower's decision-making on financial institutions' strategy. His work has been published in the leading academic journals including the American Economic Review and Management Science, and has been profiled by the press such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
Memberships & Affiliations
Cesifo Research Network Fellow. (2019 to current.)
Teaching
Spring 2022
Management Consulting Lab: Midsized Firms in Africa
(MBA)
Global Immersion: Africa's Consumer Market: The Case of Ghana
(MBA)
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Strategy Formulation
(MBA)
Strategy Formulation
(EMBA)
Future of Work: Strategy & Leadership
(MBA)
Spring 2020
Global Immersion: Africa's Consumer Market: The Case of Ghana
(MBA)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Strategy
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Strategy Formulation
(EMBA)
Strategy Formulation
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Strategy Formulation
(MBA)
Global Immersion: Africa's Consumer Market: The Case of Ghana
(MBA)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Strategy
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Fall 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
The Future of Work: Amazon’s Quest to be the Best
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Jeff Schwartz
Jumia Group: Adapting Global Strategy to Local Markets
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan J. Wang
LUV It or Leave It? Southwest Airlines Reflects on Organizational Choices
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Ann Bartel, Stephan Meier
Interview-Based Customer Insights in Developing Countries
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Susan Hamilton Meier
PepsiCo and Frito-Lay: A Salty Combination?
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang, Stephan Meier
Wal-Mart: In Search of Renewed Growth (Chinese Version)
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Brooklyn Brewery: Setting the Course for Growth
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan J. Wang
The Walt Disney Company: If You Give this Mouse a Focus
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Stephan Meier
Maersk Shipping: Is the Price Right?
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Jerry Kim, Bastiaan Oomens
Satellite Radio: From Sirius and XM to Sirius XM
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Jerry Kim
Competitive Dynamics and Business Strategy
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Ernesto Reuben
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Walmart: In Search of Renewed Growth
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Research
Journal articles
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
In Review of Economics and Statistics
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lea Cassar, Maria Cotofan, Robert Dur
Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives
In The Economic Journal
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Lea Cassar, Stephan Meier
In the Mood to Consume: Effect of Sunshine on Credit Card Spending
In Journal of Banking & Finance
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Stephan Meier, Xin Zou
Does Poverty Negate the Impact of Social Norms on Cheating?
In Games and Economic Behavior
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Suparee Boonmanunt, Agne Kajackaite, Stephan Meier
Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams
In Strategic Management Journal
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Matt Stephenson, Patryk Perkowski
What's the Catch? Suspicion in Bank Motives and Sluggish Refinancing
In The Review of Financial Studies
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Eric Johnson, Stephan Meier, Olivier Toubia
Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Lea Cassar, Stephan Meier
Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile
In Journal of Development Economics
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, Dina Pomeranz
Rank reversal aversion inhibits redistribution across societies
In Nature Human Behavior
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Wenwen Xie, Benjamin Ho, Stephan Meier, Xinyue Zhou
Behaviorally Informed Policies for Household Financial Decisionmaking
In Behavioral Science & Policy
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Brigitte Madrian, Hal Hershfield, Abigail Sussman, Saurabh Bhargava, Jeremy Burke, Scott Huettel, Julian Jamison, Eric Johnson, John Lynch, Scott Rick, Suzanne Shu
Field Experiments in Strategy Research
In Strategic Management Journal
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Aaron Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel Nielson
Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday
In American Economic Review
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Leandro Carvalho, Stephan Meier, Stephanie Wang
Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime
In Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro, Barbara La Cara
Temporal Stability of Time Preferences
In Review of Economics and Statistics
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
Incentives and Group Identity
In Games and Economic Behavior
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, Philipp Zahn
Learning from (Failed) Replications: Cognitive Load Manipulations and Charitable Giving
In Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Judd Kessler, Stephan Meier
The Cost of Not Knowing the Score: Self-Estimated Credit Scores and Financial Outcomes
In Journal of Family and Economic Issues
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Ben Levinger, Marques Benton
Numerical Ability Predicts Mortgage Default
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, Stephan Meier
Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
In Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-selected Student Samples
In Journal of the European Economic Association
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Armin Falk, Christian Zehnder
Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations
In Management Science
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Matthias Sutter
The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups
In American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lorenz Goette, David Huffman
Time Discounting Predicts Creditworthiness
In Psychological Science
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
Can Integration Tame Conflicts?
In Science
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Lorenz Goette, Stephan Meier
When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Uri Gneezy, Stephan Meier, Pedro Rey-Biel
Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
In Management Science
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Andreas Fuster, Stephan Meier
Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
In American Economic Journal
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap Between the Public and the Private Sector
In Journal of Human Resources
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
In American Economic Review
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
In Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Simon Luchinger, Alois Stutzer
Do people behave in experiments as in the field?—evidence from donations
In Experimental Economics
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Matthias Benz, Stephan Meier
Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment
In Journal of the European Economic Association
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
In American Economic Review
(2006)
Coauthor(s): Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier
Social Comparison and Pro-social Behavior: Testing 'Conditional Cooperation' in a Field Experiment
In American Economic Review
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier
Pro-social behavior in a natural setting
In Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Bruno Frey, Stephan Meier
Are Political Economists Selfish or Indoctrinated?
In Economic Inquiry
(2003)
Coauthor(s): Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier
Books
Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Christopher Foote, Lorenz Goette
The Economics of Non-selfish Behaviour: Decisions to Contribute Money to Public Goods
(2006)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier
Chapters
Trust, Distrust, and Bargaining
In The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Iris Bohnet
A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
In Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
(2007)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier
Working papers
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and Moral Cost of Layoffs
In IZA DP No. 13497
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Daniel Keum
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, Stephan Meier, Nicolas Padilla
The Effect of Financial Constraints on Parochial Cooperation and Norm Enforcement
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Suparee Boonmanunt
Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Seung-Keun Martinez, Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Case studies
Competitive Dynamics and Business Strategy
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier
Competitive Dynamics and Business Strategy
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
Are Customers or Employees More Important?
The Office of the Future Will Be Intentional About in-Person Work, Cater to Employees, and Driven by Performance Metrics
Thinking About Quiet Quitting? You’re Not Alone. Quiet Quitters Make Up Half of the U.S. Workforce, Poll Shows.
Before ‘Quiet Quitting’ in the U.S., There Was ‘Lying Flat’ in China. How the Anti-Work Movement Swept the World’s Two Largest Economies
Pandemic Accelerates Changes to Work Culture
Press Releases
Magazine articles
Stop Talking About How CSR Helps Your Bottom Line
In Harvard Business Review
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lea Cassar
When Do Monetary Incentives Backfire?
In Harvard Economic Review
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Matthew Stephenson
Awards And Honors
2012 - 2013
2012 American Economic Review
2010 Columbia Business School
American Economic Review, 2007-2008
Swiss National Science Foundation 10/2004 - 9/2005
Summer 2000 University of Zurich