Jana Gallus

Jana Gallus is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. Her research focuses on incentives, motivation, and behavioral economics, with an emphasis on how nonfinancial motivations can be leveraged to improve organizational performance. Gallus has collaborated with various organizations, including Wikipedia, NASA, and the American Red Cross, and is currently building the Center for Incentive Design. She serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and as the Director of the UCLA Anderson Behavioral Lab. Her work explores the impact of awards, relational incentives, and social dynamics on human behavior.

Jana Gallus is a researcher at UCLA Anderson School of Management, focusing on incentives, innovation, strategy, and field experiments. Her work explores how awards and recognition influence behavior, particularly in collaborative environments. Gallus has conducted large-scale field experiments at platforms like Wikipedia and NASA to study the impact of symbolic awards on public good contributions and internal crowdsourcing. Her research also examines the strategic use of awards in management and their effects on performance, well-being, and policy. She investigates the economics of awards, their role as non-monetary incentives, and their implications for happiness and organizational behavior.