Media Mentions
Choice Overload
- Study finds too much choice confuses the brain Daily Mail “Economists call the problem choice overload, and the frustration it causes can lead to poor decisions.”
- 4 Steps to Making an Overwhelming Decision Easy New York Magazine “But the group that made the best decisions did so by using the tournament strategy, which worked like this...”
- How consumers can simplify the decision-making process Consumer Affairs “The study was spurred by concerns over the large number of choices seniors had to make in the Medicare Part D program.”
- Study aims for wise choices from a wealth of health plans The Tennessean “What we find so far is that when people are given additional options, they make worse decisions.”
Online Coupons
- Codes of conduct: Draw customers to your website with coupons Entrepreneur “Coupon codes... may actually drive customers away from your company's site.”
- Discount prompts at checkout drive buyers away, says new study Internet Retailer “A field to enter a discount code at checkout [drives] away customers who ... do not have a discount code.”
- When discounts drive customers away Internet Retailer “If you're going to use discount codes, make them invisible to people who don't have them or you will suffer.”
Wine Pricing
- Why I hate ordering wine by the glass Wall Street Journal “The second-least-expensive wine on the list is often marked up the most.”
- The lowdown on restaurant markups Wine Enthusiast “Mike Shor did a study analyzing wine prices at 38 Nashville restaurants.”
- The science of wine pricing The (Nashville) City Paper “Shor did an analysis of Nashville restaurant wine pricing.”
- Some advocacy avoids Tennessee lobbying label Knoxville News Sentinel “Mike Shor tried a different tack, filing a formal complaint against Seigenthaler.”
- Companies spend big bucks to lobby legislators in Nashville Knoxville News Sentinel “Tennessee Ethics Commission ruling on Mikhael Shor complaint.”
- Vandy prof files ethics complaint over wine in grocery stores Nashville Post “A formal complaint filed by Shor against the Wine and Spirit Wholesalers of Tennessee.”
My Business School Rankings
- Best MBA program in the land... Cornell BusinessWeek “Shor's methodology does a good job of teasing out the selection bias.”
- New twist on B-school rankings InsideHigherEd “Shor ranked the 50 schoolsin order of the gains in salary that the school appears to provide.”
- We’re No. 1! (At Least Sometimes) Cornell Alumni Magazine
- New ranking of business schools by efficacy places U.Va. in top 3 UVA Rankings at a Glance “An economist took the top 50 business programs and reordered them ...”
- Expert at Owen applies new methodology to assess the quality of schools Vanderbilt News Service
- Simon School ranks in top 20 University of Rochester News Service Rochester took the rankings way too seriously
- New survey ranks Simon 17th among nation's top business schools University of Rochester Daily Email Rochester took the rankings way too seriously
- Economist names UR's Simon school 17th-best (Rochester) Democrat and Chronicle Rochester took the rankings way too seriously
- Simon School ranks in top 20 Business Strategies Magazine Rochester took the rankings way too seriously
Game Theory Pedagogy
- More MBA programs embrace game theory Wall Street Journal “Although the value of teaching game theory has been widely accepted by practitioners...”
- Fun and game theory Vanderbilt Business “You probably should think twice before watching a movie with Mike Shor.”
- The gaming future—Co-operation rules Daily Dispatch (South Africa)
- Locura y equilibrio del premio Nobel La Vanguardia
- Scientific American applauds website of Owen School’s Shor Nashville Post “The magazine picked Shor’s Web site as one of the 50 best science-oriented online resources across the world.”
- Games people—and animals—play Science
Miscellaneous
- Retail giants’ $9 books frustrate Christian stores The Tennessean “Even if the retailers sold books below cost, that's not necessarily illegal, said Mike Shor.”
- Happy anniversary Internet bubble CBS MarketWatch “After the bubble experience, there are fewer fools... It will be harder to generate rising stock prices.”
- Investors aren't buying dreams CBS Marketwatch “There are many examples that show that the winning technology isn't always the superior one.”
- Teenage wasteland: The best tech investments have yet to be born. CBS Marketwatch “Odds of success are low with this basket approach.”