Sushil Bikhchandani

Professor of Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management; Professor of Strategy; Howard Noble Chair in Management

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Sushil Bikhchandani has taught at UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1985. He is interested in auctions, market institutions, herd behavior and decision making. He has published widely cited work on informational cascades, and his articles on topics such as auctions, bargaining and decision theory have appeared in numerous professional journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Operations Research.

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Illustration depicting two paths, the one on the left populated by lots of people and the one on the right by one person. Feature / Behavioral Decision Making

Behind the Paradox of Logical People Ignoring Their Own Insights to Mimic Others

Informational cascades, revealed across three decades of research, compromise the work of corporate managers, surgeons, investors and others

Driver looking at Uber app on his smartphone Research Brief / Uber Surge Pricing

How Uber Could Avoid That Notorious $362.57 Fare

A mathematical model analyzes incentives underlying surge-pricing schemes