Build better health and finance tech products for humans. Join the Startup Lab.
This is the second installment in a five-part series on the CAH’s Startup Lab, our academic incubator program for health and finance tech startups. We’re demystifying why and how a behavioral economics research center at Duke supports and collaborates with entrepreneurs. We’re excited to announce that we’re searching for our next class of the Startup…
Exercise Blog Series, Part 2: Feeling Depressed? Ask your doctor about exercise.
Part 2 of a Series By: Jamie Foehl and Zachary Zenko, PhD You’re probably familiar with the notion that exercise might help with depression. Maybe you’ve seen an article or headline that starts off with something like: “There’s evidence suggesting that exercise can help with depression.” Have you ever wondered what that “evidence” is?…
Just Launched: Financial coaching app infused with behavioral science principles
Financial counseling is one intervention that has consistently shown positive results in changing behavior across financial, medical, and health fields. The only problem? Because of the high touch model, it’s tough to scale and accessible only to people who have funds to pay. Our team at Common Cents worked with employee financial wellness company Retiremap to…
Supporting Problem-Solvers through the Startup Lab
This is the first installment in a five-part series on the CAH’s Startup Lab, our academic incubator program for health and finance tech startups. We’re demystifying why and how a behavioral economics research center at Duke supports and collaborates with entrepreneurs. We’re looking for startups that are eager to experiment, and demonstrate a passion for…
Beginning at the End
Part of the CAH Startup Lab’s Experimenting in Business Series By Rachael Meleney and Aline Holzwarth Missteps in business are costly—they drain time, energy, and money. Of course, business leaders never start a project with the intention to fail—whether it’s implementing a new program, launching a new technology, or trying a new marketing campaign. Yet,…
Rachael Meleney: Dance and Decision Paralysis
How long have you worked at CAH? I was brought on in September 2015. What brought you to CAH? I graduated from UNC with a variety of experience working with entrepreneurship education and startup support programs– both in the university setting and in the private sector. At the time I was doing marketing and…
5 Great Behavioral Economics Reads from April
1. How To Grow Prepaid Through Financial Well-being Kristen Berman, Wendy De La Rosa, and Mariel Beasley discuss the recent boom in prepaid card use, and how they can be used to further expand financial inclusion. “A study of more than 10,000 participants conducted by researchers Catherine Rodriguez and Juan Saavedra found that savings balances…
Could Retirement Savings Be a New Form of Political Protest?
Could Retirement Savings Be a New Form of Political Protest? A few weeks ago I received a text from an old college friend , asking for some interesting financial advice. It read: Her: Hey- do you know anything or any place I can look into about not paying federal taxes? Or ways around all that? I was…
Dan’s Hike, Part 4: Don’t Look Back
By: Stephanie Tepper Regret is a complex emotion bridging the categories we use to conceptualize time. We often think of regret as a feeling we experience in the present towards a focal point in the past, but this focus can fluidly shift from past choices to future hypotheticals and back again. In this final exploration…
Exercise Blog Series, Part 1: Exercising Your Way to a Good Night’s Sleep
Series By: Zachary Zenko & Jamie Foehl Exercise has been called a “polypill” (3) because of its plethora of benefits. This will be the first in a series of blog posts designed to review some of the many benefits of exercise in an accessible manner. This first post is about exercise and sleep. Upcoming posts…