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Jonathan Levav

Jonathan   Levav
Associate Professor, Marketing
Jonathan Levav
Associate Professor of Marketing
Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar for 2012-2013
Faculty Director for the Behavioral Lab
Academic Area: 
Marketing

Research Statement

Jonathan Levav studies consumer behavior and behavioral decision theory. He combines laboratory and field experiments, as well as secondary data analysis, in order to study the factors that influence people's choices and judgments. His research on choice focuses on three inter-related areas: 1) understanding the role of product attributes in people’s use of contextual cues; 2) the influence of environmental—social and physical—contextual cues on choices; 3) the contextual variables introduced by previous choices in sequential decisions. His research on judgment focuses on two areas: 1) preference prediction; 2) likelihood judgment.

Bio

Jonathan Levav is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research is aimed at understanding consumer’s judgments and choices by using tools from experimental psychology and behavioral economics. In particular, he studies the contextual factors that influence people’s choices and judgments. His research is both basic and applied–from probability judgment to product customization decisions.

Jonathan received his PhD in marketing from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and his A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University. He is the winner of the Hillel Einhorn Young Investigator Award, awarded biennially by the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making. Prior to joining Stanford he was a member of the faculty at the Columbia Business School.

Courses Taught

Degree Courses

2013-14

Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a...

This course considers the challenges faced by start-ups in achieving liquidity. We take the perspectives of organizational behavior, marketing, and finance, and examine forks in the road faced by firms that have already launched products....

2012-13

Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a...

2011-12

This course will focus on the role of the customer in creating value for the firm. Through case discussions, lectures, and guest speakers, we will learn about customer-related factors that increase a firm's market value. A substantial portion...

Stanford Case Studies

E500 | Waze: Product Evolution and Fundraising
Jonathan Levav, Jason Luther2014
E474 | Intuit’s Small Business Health Insurance Solutions
Jonathan Levav, Russell Lewis Siegelman, Austin Kiessig2013