June 15-17, 2026, in New York City

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We’re happy to announce that the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business will be hosting the 40th anniversary of the Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) Conference at our Cornell Tech campus in New York City, June 15-17, 2026.

BDRM is the leading conference for behavioral research with business and organizational implications, bringing together the best of behavioral research within, but not limited to, the areas of decision-making, consumer behavior, experimental and behavioral economics, development economics, decision analysis, behavioral finance, organizational behavior, negotiation, behavioral strategy, behavioral operations research, behavioral accounting, and medical and legal decision-making. The first BDRM conference was held in June 1986 at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and we are delighted to bring it back to Cornell for this anniversary year.

Submissions of both sessions and individual papers will be encouraged; submissions will be due on February 1, 2026. A call for papers with additional details and registration information will be released in November. Watch this website for more information as it becomes available.
We look forward to seeing you in New York in June!

The 2026 BDRM Organizing Committee
Suzanne Shu (chair), Andrew Davis, Geoffrey Fisher, Emily Garbinsky, Xing Huang, David Huffman, Lawrence Jin, Collin Raymond, Kristi Rennekamp, Heather Schofield, Ovul Sezer, Brian White

The image below shows a 1986 Cornell Chronicle article titled “Behavioral Decision Theory Changes Way Business Schools Teach.” The piece highlights how Professor Richard Thaler and fellow scholars helped pioneer the integration of psychology and economics, laying the groundwork for modern behavioral economics and transforming how business schools teach decision-making.