Supply chain labor standards, the economics of privacy, front-line decision-making, and consumer attention: Meet the four new experts, including one newly minted dean, bringing their knowledge and skill sets to the MIT Sloan faculty.
Professor of Information Technology
Comes from: Acquisti joins MIT Sloan from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, where he was a professor of information technology and public policy and founding faculty director of the CMU Digital Transformation and Innovation Center. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and master’s degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Trinity College Dublin.
Research: Acquisti’s research has spearheaded the application of economics and behavioral economics to the study of privacy and personal data and prompted the investigation of privacy and disclosure behavior in social media. He is a contributing author to “The Economics of Privacy” (2024), a book that examines the mechanics of privacy in the digital age. Other recent work by Acquisti explores the use of the protection motivation theory to encourage users to change breached passwords.
Find out more: On his Google Scholar page and LinkedIn.
MIT Sloan Dean and Professor of Global Economics and Management
Comes from: Locke was previously the dean of Apple University, which focuses on internal leadership and management education for Apple Inc. Before that, Locke served as Brown University’s provost for seven years. He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1981, an MA in education from the University of Chicago in 1990, and a PhD in political science from MIT in 1989.
Research: In his new role leading MIT Sloan, Locke plans to focus on how new technologies will impact education, industry, and the workplace, with an emphasis on climate change, generative artificial intelligence, the future of work, advanced manufacturing, and health care innovation. He is the author of “The Promise and Limits of Private Power” (2013) and has published research on supply chains and working conditions during the pandemic and labor standards in the global electronics industry.
Find out more: From MIT News and on his Google Scholar page.
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Assistant Professor of Accounting
Comes from: Moran joins MIT Sloan from PwC, where he served as an auditor for midsize and large private equity and family-owned businesses. Moran holds a PhD in accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.
Research: Moran studies the interplay between information, incentives, and decision-making, both inside and outside firms. His recent work includes a field experiment on the motivational effects of “management by walking around” and a study on whether the availability of highly detailed performance information translates into improved decision-making by front-line managers.
Find out more: On LinkedIn.
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Comes from: Before joining the MIT faculty, Nam was a faculty member at Ohio State University in the marketing and logistics department. She also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Nam received her PhD from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in economics and BA in mathematics from Arizona State University.
Research: Nam investigates what captures, directs, and exploits consumer attention. Based on a combination of experimental and computational methods, her work sheds light on how attention guides consumer decision-making in real-world settings. Recent papers she has co-authored look at how consumer behavior is influenced by the disclosure of workforce diversity data and firm response times to sociopolitical events.
Find out more: On her personal website and LinkedIn.
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