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George Wu studies the psychology of decision making, goal-setting, motivation, cognitive biases, bargaining, and negotiation. His research has been widely published in several journals including Economics, Management Science, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Psychological Science, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Wu has served as the inaugural faculty director of the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 1997, he was faculty at Harvard Business School as an assistant and associate professor in managerial economics and later in the negotiation and decision making group. He also worked as a lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before graduate school, Wu was a decision analyst at Procter & Gamble. He has served as a Department Editor for Management Science and on numerous editorial boards, including Decision Analysis and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Wu earned his bachelor's degree cum laude in applied mathematics with a concentration in decision control in 1985, his master's degree in applied mathematics in 1987, and his PhD in decision sciences in 1991, all from Harvard. He was honored as the 2020 recipient of the Chicago Urban League’s Humanitarian Award and received the Class of 2020 Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The doctoral program at Booth is organized into 'dissertation areas' which include Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Finance, Marketing, and Operations Management.