Zachary Sheffler

Education

• PhD Information and Decision Science, University of Minnesota, 2018
• MBA Finance, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 2012
• BA History, University of California San Diego, 2008

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 2018-Present

Research Interests

• Behavior and IS
• Decision Making
• Games and Gamification
• Ethical Decision Making

Teaching Interests

• Business Intelligence
• Analytics
• Statistical Methods

Recent Honors & Awards

• University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award, 2015-2016

Selected Publications

• Sheffler, Z., Liu, D., Curley, S. (2020) “Ingredients for successful badges: evidence from a field experiment in bike commuting”, European Journal of Information Systems, 29:6

• Nguyen, L. T., Hess, T. J., Liu, Y., Sheffler, Z. (December 2020) Credible and Biased: An Experimental Study of Online Reviews, International Conference on Information Systems, Hyderabad, India

• Sheffler, Z., Liu, D., Curley, S. (December 2019) Do We Need Different Levels of Badges for Users with Different Participation Levels? A Field Experiment from a Bicycle Commuting Program, International Conference on Information Systems, Munich, Germany

• Babar, Y., S. Curley, Z. Ke, D. Liu, Z. Sheffler (June 2018) Using IT to Nudge Wellness Behaviors: The Effects of IT-Enabled Social Support and Motivational Messaging, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research, Rotterdam, Netherlands