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Michael I. Norton
Born1975 (age 48–49)
EducationWilliams College (B.A., 1997), Princeton University (Ph.D., 2002)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, business administration
InstitutionsHarvard Business School
Thesis Moral casuistry and the justification of biased judgment  (2002)
Doctoral advisorJohn M. Darley

Michael I. Norton (born 1975)[1] is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Education

Norton received his B.A. from Williams College in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2002.[2]

Career

Norton worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow from 2002 to 2005 in both the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Media Lab. He joined the Harvard Business School in 2005 as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor there in 2010. In 2014, he was appointed Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration there.[2]

Research

Norton is known for studying the effect of social factors on people's views and behavior, as well as the psychology of investment and individuals' valuing of goods.[3] He has also studied the psychology underlying individuals' spending decisions, and he has said that spending on experiences tends to make people happier than does spending on objects.[4] His research on this subject has also shown that people become happier when they spend money on others than when they spend it on themselves.[5] He has also researched subjects such as public perceptions of executive compensation,[6] racism,[7] and economic inequality in the United States.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Michael I. Norton". VIAF.
  2. ^ a b "Michael Norton CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Michael Norton". Harvard Business School website. Harvard Business School.
  4. ^ Gillespie, Patrick (20 November 2015). "Money really can buy happiness, Harvard prof says". CNN Money.
  5. ^ Walsh, Colleen (17 April 2008). "Money spent on others can buy happiness". Harvard Gazette. Harvard University.
  6. ^ Weissmann, Jordan (26 September 2014). "Americans Have No Idea How Bad Inequality Really Is". Slate.
  7. ^ Norton, MI; Sommers, SR (May 2011). "Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 6 (3). Association for Psychological Science: 215–8. doi:10.1177/1745691611406922. PMID 26168512. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |lay-date= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |lay-source= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |lay-url= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Gudrais, Elizabeth. "What We Know About Wealth". Harvard Magazine.
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