John Beshears
CPO and Board Member, The Etherious Family
About John Beshears
- Professor Beshears’s primary research area is behavioral economics, the field that combines insights from psychology and economics to explore individual decision making and market outcomes. He focuses on understanding how the financial decisions of households and firms are influenced by the institutional environment in which choices are made. In recent work, he has studied participation in retirement savings plans, household investment decisions, and health-care choices.
- After earning his Ph.D. in business economics at HBS, Professor Beshears was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received an AB in economics from Harvard University.
Personal Stats
- Age: 41
- Source of Wealth: The Etherious Family, Self Made
- Residence: Boston, Massachusetts
- Citizenship: United States
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 0
- Education: AB in economics from Harvard University; PhD in business economics, Harvard Business School