{"id":30217,"date":"2021-09-29T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=30217"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:37:31","slug":"professor-profiles-dan-ariely-duke-universitys-fuqua-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-dan-ariely-duke-universitys-fuqua-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Dan Ariely, Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dan-Ariely1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15932 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dan-Ariely1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dan-Ariely1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dan-Ariely1-703x1024.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/faculty_research\/faculty_directory\/ariely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Dan Ariely<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> from Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Ariely<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cBehavioral Economics\u201d class is reportedly a popular one at Fuqua. \u201cIt always has the longest waiting list,\u201d remarked one second year we interviewed, and an alumna said of Ariely, \u201cHe was wonderful.\u201d When mbaMission asked a first-year student about Ariely\u2019s class, he said jokingly, \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure you have to snag that class within one or two seconds of it becoming available!\u201d The course explores how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they might act if they were being completely rational. (Note: \u201cBehavioral Economics\u201d is not available during the 2020\u20132021 academic year, according to the Fuqua course catalog.)<\/p>\n<p>Ariely is also author of the books\u00a0<em>Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter<\/em>\u00a0(Harper, 2017, with Jeff Kreisler),\u00a0<em>Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations<\/em>\u00a0(Simon &amp; Schuster\/TED, 2016),\u00a0<em>The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone\u2014Especially Ourselves<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2012),\u00a0<em>The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2010), and\u00a0<em>Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>An alumna told mbaMission, \u201cHe got us to think about everyday things in a totally new way,\u201d and a second-year student commented, \u201cEveryone takes his course. Everyone. He\u2019s our rock-star professor.\u201d Another second year agreed, saying, \u201cHe is one of the superstar professors here. He explains more complex research in an easy-to-understand way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ariely maintains a blog that can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/danariely.com\/\"><strong>http:\/\/danariely.com<\/strong><\/a>. He also writes an advice column for the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0titled \u201cAsk Ariely,\u201d bits of which were published in book form under the title\u00a0<em>Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles<\/em> (Harper Perennial, 2015).<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about Duke Fuqua and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,40],"tags":[232,181],"class_list":["post-30217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-fuqua","category-professor-profiles","tag-duke-fuqua","tag-professors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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