Zachary Sheffler
Assistant Professor
Operations & Information Management
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
Recent Honors / Awards
University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award, 2015-2016
Research Interests
Behavior and IS
Decision Making
Games and Gamification
Ethical Decision Making
Teaching Interests
General
- Business Intelligence
- Analytics
- Statistical Methods
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
