Dr. Jack Soll

Biography

Jack B. Soll is the Gregory Mario Jeremy Mario Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where he has been a faculty member since 2005. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, specializing in behavioral science and economics. Prior to joining Duke, Professor Soll served on the faculty at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and was a visiting professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching focuses on decision making, managerial effectiveness, leadership, negotiations, and statistics, and he has been heavily involved in executive education, particularly within daytime MBA programs. His research primarily explores the psychology of judgment and decision making, with notable insight into the phenomenon of overconfidence and its implications for decision-making processes. He has published extensively in premier academic journals such as Science, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Professor Soll's current research interests include group decision making and the applications of behavioral decision research in public policy.

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