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Dylan Minor
Dylan Minor

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & DECISION SCIENCES
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Print Overview
Dylan started professionally in the field of investment management. After a number of years at Morgan Stanley and then Wells Fargo, Dylan decided to start his own private wealth management firm, which still operates today. All the while, Dylan became increasingly interested and involved in investment research. He soon started investigating Socially Responsible Investing, intrigued by the challenge of integrating financial and ethical choices. This led to his desire to acquire greater tools for such analysis, which soon meant completing a PhD program at UC Berkeley. Through his process of becoming an economist Dylan became interested in the question of how to integrate financial and ethical choices more generally beyond simply investment decisions. Now at Kellogg, he researches and teaches in this growing field more generally dubbed Business & Society.

Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Economics
Corporate Governance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Economics of Organizations
Ethics
Reputation Management
Strategy in Non-Market Environments
Print Vita
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, 2011, University of California Berkeley
Masters of Science, 2008, University of California Berkeley
BA, 2006, University of California Santa Barbara, Summa Cum Laude

Academic Positions
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2011-present

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Applications: Business and Society, Incentives in Organizations, Corporate Governance and Corruption
Methods: Game Theory, Auctions, Experimental Economics and Applied Econometrics

Working Papers
Minor, Dylan, Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan. Forthcoming. Competing Match Makers: An Experimental Analysis. Management Science.
Minor, Dylan and John Morgan. Forthcoming. CSR as Reputation Insurance: Primum Non Nocere. California Management Review.
Minor, Dylan. Coarse Thinking and Competition.
Minor, Dylan. Increasing Effort through Rewarding the Best Less.
Minor, Dylan and Jen Brown. Selecting the Best? Effort Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments.
Minor, Dylan. The Value of Corporate Citizenship.
Minor, Dylan. CSR as Reputation Insurance: Theory and Evidence.
Minor, Dylan. Increasing Effort through Softening Incentives in Contests.
Minor, Dylan. Striving, Slacking, and Quitting: Experimental Evidence.

 
Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
Business & Society (especially Non Market Strategy), economics of incentives, personnel economics, auctions, managerial economics and game theory
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Strategic Management in Non-Market Environments (SEEK-441-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Management & Strategy, Social Enterprise.

The explicit regulations and implicit norms governing a firm's market behavior are determined by myriad social, political, regulatory and legal institutions. These non-market institutions are arenas in which interest groups compete to change the rules to further their goals. This course takes the perspective of managers or consultants who must anticipate how interests and institutions within the non-market environment will react to new issues and develop strategies for affecting outcomes with the goal of improving firm performance. The course introduces students to a set of frameworks and tools that assist managers in non-market analysis and strategy development. Cases focusing on the media, activists, legislatures, regulatory agencies and international trade are used to practice applying the frameworks and formulating effective strategies.