Linnea Gandhi

Biography

Linnea Gandhi teaches behavioral science for the Executive MBA and Executive Education programs at Chicago Booth. Across her courses, she brings in corporate partners to create outside-the-classroom experiences where students not only learn theory but also get hands-on practice diagnosing and designing for how humans make decisions in real-world settings. With published works in Harvard Business Review, PNAS, and Nature Human Behaviour, Gandhi writes and speaks about topics such as metascience, nudging, and strategies to improve measurement and experimentation in business.

Gandhi is also a Lecturer and PhD candidate at Wharton, studying and teaching an interdisciplinary mix of behavioral, decision, and computational science. Her research focuses on building new methods to enable solution-oriented, scalable social science for use by non-academics, particularly for the fields of debiasing and behavior change. She runs the Choice Architecture Lab, an application-only course where teams of students solve real challenges for outside clients -- from startups to Fortune 50 firms -- using behavioral insights and experimentation. This lab was first incubated while Gandhi taught for the full-time MBA program at Chicago Booth.

Prior, Gandhi ran a boutique consulting firm specializing in applying psychology theories and experimental methods in business. She earned an AB in Social Studies (Psych and Phil) from Harvard University, and an MBA from Chicago Booth with concentrations in managerial and organizational behavior and statistics.

Academic Areas

• Behavioral Science