Don A. Moore (academic)

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Don A. Moore
Born1970
Alma materCarleton College, Northwestern University
OccupationProfessor
Websitelearnmoore.org

Don Andrew Moore (born 1970)[1] is an author, academic, and professor. He is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair I of Leadership and Communication at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he teaches classes on leadership, negotiation, and decision making.[2]

Education[edit]

Moore attended Carleton College, graduating in 1993 with a degree in psychology.[3] He earned master's (1998) and doctoral degrees (2000) from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.[4]

Career[edit]

Moore is currently a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he has been on faculty since 2010.[5] He is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Haas.[6] From 2014-2020, he was faculty director of UC Berkeley's Xlab.[7] Prior to that, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business from 2000 until 2010.[8]

Moore is primarily known for his work in behavioral economics, with a focus on decision making and overconfidence.[9][10][11]

He was among the co-leaders of the Good Judgment Project, a forecasting tournament that predicted geopolitical events.[12]  The project was sponsored by the U.S. government's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

He has published two books: Judgment and Managerial Decision Making, co-authored with Max Bazerman, as well as Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Moore, Don A." WorldCat Identities. Archived from the original on 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  2. ^ "Don A. Moore". Berkeley Haas. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  3. ^ "Reunion Committee | Class of 1993 | Carleton College". apps.carleton.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  4. ^ "Don Moore (KSM '98 '00) - Kellogg School of Management". www.kellogg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  5. ^ "Don A. Moore". Berkeley Haas. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  6. ^ "MORS Faculty". Berkeley Haas. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  7. ^ "Xlab | About". xlab.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  8. ^ "Don Moore". executive.berkeley.edu. 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  9. ^ "Don A. Moore - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  10. ^ Nyhan, Brendan (2016-01-14). "Everybody Loves a Winner. So What Happens if Trump Loses?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  11. ^ Surowiecki, James. "The Talking Cure". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  12. ^ Tom, Pamela; Berkeley, U. C. (2017-06-22). "Predicting the future with the wisdom of crowds". University of California. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  13. ^ Moore, Don (2020). "Perfectly Confident". Harper Collins.