Dan Lovallo

Professor of Business Strategy
Room 449
H10 - Storie Dixson Wing Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
| Telephone | +61 2 9351 5538 |
| Fax | +61 2 9036 5378 |
| dan.lovallo@sydney.edu.au | |
| Curriculum vitae | Curriculum vitae |
Bio
Dan Lovallo is a Professor of Business Strategy at the University of Sydney and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Innovation Management and Organization at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is concerned with psychological aspects of strategic decisions and has appeared in the American Economic Review, Management Science and the Harvard Business Review. He received his PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal and the McKinsey Finance.
Research Grants
2013-2015 |
Behavioural strategies for selecting innovation projects When financing new innovations, everyone wants to back a potential winner. However, not spotting a winning project and letting opportunity to innovate pass, has significant negative consequences. This project will analyse how design thinking by senior executives and investors can boost innovation by not rejecting a good project. |
ARC Discovery Project |



