Teck-Hua Ho
Teck-Hua Ho | |
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Born |
Singapore | May 10, 1961
Nationality | Singapore |
Institution | National University of Singapore |
Field | Marketing; Behavioral Economics |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
Contributions | Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Management Science |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Teck-Hua Ho is the deputy president (research & technology) and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor [1] at the National University of Singapore (NUS).[2][3] Prior to that, he was the William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley).[4] He will become senior deputy president and provost of NUS on 1 January 2018.[5] He is also the executive chairman of AI.SG, a national research and development programme, and chairman of Singapore Data Science Consortium.
Education
Ho obtained a bachelor's degree with first class honours in electrical engineering in 1985 and a master's degree in computer and information sciences in 1989 from NUS. He then obtained a master's degree in 1991 and a PhD in 1993 in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Prior to becoming deputy president (research & technology), Ho was vice president (research strategy) at NUS. He is also professor of economics and marketing at the NUS Business School.[6] Ho also serves as director of the NUS Centre for Behavioural Economics.[7]
From 2002 to 2015, Ho was a professor at the Haas School of Business. At the School, he was the William Halford, Jr. Family Chair in Marketing and director of the Asia Business Center.[8] He was also associate dean of academic affairs (2004-2006) and chair of the marketing group (2004-2006 and 2008-2011). While at the Haas School, he won numerous awards, including the Williamson Award,[9] named for the UC Berkeley faculty member Oliver E. Williamson, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. The award is the Haas School’s highest faculty award, and celebrates honorees who best reflect the character and integrity associated with Williamson’s scholarly work and legacy. Ho has also won the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award[10] and three Earl F. Cheit Awards for Excellence in Teaching.[11]
From 1997 to 2002, Ho was associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School. Prior to his time at the Wharton School, he was assistant professor of operations and technology management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Ho's research interests include behavioral game theory and alternatives to equilibrium models, behavioral change in the field, and data-driven decision sciences.[12]
He is the current editor-in-chief of Management Science,[13] a board member of the National University Health System[14] and the National Environment Agency,[15] and a fellow at the Civil Service College Singapore.[16]
Selected papers
- Ho, T-H., Chong, J-K. and Xia, X., “Yellow taxis have fewer accidents than blue taxis because yellow is more visible than blue”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (published ahead of print March 6, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1612551114), 2017.
- Ho, T-H. and Zhang, J-J., “Designing Pricing Contracts for Boundedly Rational Customers: Does the Framing of the Fixed Fee Matter?”, Management Science 54(4): 686-700, 2008.
- Ho, T-H., Lim, N. and Camerer, C., “Modeling the Psychology of Consumer and Firm Behavior with Behavioral Economics”, Journal of Marketing Research 43(3): 307-331, 2006.
- Camerer, C., Ho, T-H. and Chong J-K., “A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3): 861-898, 2004.
- Camerer, C. and Ho, T-H., “Experience-weighted Attraction Learning in Normal Form Games”, Econometrica 67(4): 827-874, 1999.
- Ho, T-H., Camerer, C. and Weigelt, K., “Iterated Dominance and Iterated Best Response in Experimental p-Beauty Contests”, The American Economic Review 88(4): 947-969, 1998.
References
- ↑ http://tanfoundation.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prof_HoTeckHua.pdf
- ↑ http://www.nus.edu.sg/about/management/43-ho-teck-hua
- ↑ "Prominent Behavioural Scientist Ho Teck Hua to Head NUS Research". newswise.com.
- ↑ "Teck Ho". Faculty Directory. Haas School of Business.
- ↑ "Prof Tan Eng Chye to be next NUS President". news.nus.com.
- ↑ http://bizfaculty.nus.edu/faculty-profiles/275-ho--teck-hua
- ↑ http://bschool.nus.edu/CBE/People/CentrePersonnel/tabid/3070/default.aspx
- ↑ http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/ho-teck
- ↑ http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/prof-teck-ho-receives-prestigious-williamson-award
- ↑ http://teaching.berkeley.edu/programs/distinguished-teaching-award/past-dta-recipients
- ↑ http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/previous_awards.html
- ↑ "Google Scholar Profile - Teck Ho". Google.
- ↑ "Editorial Board". Management Science. INFORMS.
- ↑ "Board Members". nuhs.edu.sg.
- ↑ "Board of Directors". nea.gov.sg.
- ↑ "Fellows". www.cscollege.gov.sg.
External links
- Personal Website
- Profile at the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) at NUS
- Faculty page at the NUS Business School
- Profile at the Singapore Civil Service College
- Profile at the Singapore National University Health System
- Profile at the National Environment Agency