Jeroen Swinkels
Richard M. Paget Professor of Management Policy; Professor of Strategy
Is Your Team Playing It Too Safe?
Fear of failure can stifle innovation. A new study shows how to incentivize people to tackle those high-risk, high-reward projects.
Researchers: Hector Chade and Jeroen Swinkels
July 24, 2024
Consumers Lose Out When Health Insurers Offer Lots of Plans
While extra choices are usually considered a good thing, insurers are able to use them strategically to maximize profits.
Researchers: Hector Chade, Victoria Marone, Amanda Starc and Jeroen Swinkels
February 2, 2023
How Auctions Help Solve Some of the World’s Most Complicated Problems
Whenever you turn your lights on, query Google, or stream a video on your phone, it’s likely an auction happened in the background. Our faculty discuss the decades of research that helped make auctions so ubiquitous.
Researchers: Robert Weber, Jeroen Swinkels, Sandeep Baliga, James Schummer and Joshua Mollner
November 11, 2020
Take 5: How to Motivate Employees
Research sheds light on which employee incentives work best.
Researchers: Rongzhu Ke, Jin Li, Michael Powell, Daniel Barron, George Georgiadis, Jeroen Swinkels, Todd A. Gormley, David A. Matsa, Julia D. Hur, Loran Nordgren and Erika Deserranno
July 5, 2017
Finding the Right Performance Incentives to Motivate Employees
Some incentive schemes encourage hard work—others reward those who game the system.
Researchers: Daniel Barron, George Georgiadis and Jeroen Swinkels
October 10, 2016
Minimum Wage Matters
Increasing the minimum wage may not help low-wage workers
Researchers: Ohad Kadan and Jeroen Swinkels
June 1, 2010