Our Faculty

Current Instructors

Cristina Bicchieri

Founding Director, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences;
S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics; Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Legal Studies (Wharton)

Dr. Diego Aycinena

Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences

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Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences; Lecturer, The Wharton School

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Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences

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Managing Director, BIT Americas; Distinguished Lecturer, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Fellow, Behavioral Science

Senior Lecturer, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Senior Data Research Scientist, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics; Lecturer, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Affiliated Faculty

Emeritus Professor of Psychology

Associate Professor, Economics, Swarthmore College

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at Penn Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine; Scientific Director, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics; Co-Director, BEGIN Lab

Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication; Director of the Network Dynamics Group; Faculty Associate, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences; Faculty Associate, School of Engineering

Professor of Economics

Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Professor of Psychology; Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society

Professor, Psychology

David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations; Professor of Political Science Department; Co-Director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab)

Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

Jean-Marie Kneeley President's Distinguished Professor of Psychology

Professor, Operations, Information & Decisions, Wharton

Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography

I. George Heyman University Professor of Psychology and Marketing

Katherine L. Milkman

James G. Dinan Endowed Professor; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Leonore Annenberg University Professor, Psychology

Professor, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy; Director, International Literacy Institute and National Center on Adult Literacy; Director, International Educational Development Program; Graduate School of Education

Golkin Family Professor of Law and Psychology; Deputy Dean

Student & alumni stories

"I have had amazing mentors here, and I think their investment in my success is what transformed me."
- Sakshi Ghai, MBDS ‘18

Course Descriptions

Course descriptions

See the courses and electives available to master's students.

MBDS advisory board

MBDS advisory board

Exceptional thought leaders, strategists, and innovators provide students with cutting-edge perspectives from the field.