Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Daylian Cain joined the faculty at the Yale School of Management from Harvard University’s Economics Department, where he was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics. A former Canada Science Scholar, Cain has three master's degrees and earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Cain’s research — which focuses on decision-making — combines behavioral economics and philosophy; e.g., Cain is becoming a recognized expert on how people think through conflicts of interest.  He is co-editor of Cambridge Press’s Conflicts of Interest: Problems and Solutions from Law, Medicine and Organizational Settings (2005), and he won the Herb Simon Dissertation Award for his work "The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest." Cain’s research on disclosure has been discussed in the New Yorker, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal; it has also been cited on CNN Financial News. An award-winning educator in both business and philosophy, Cain is building a new Yale MBA course called "Leadership & Values."

Selected Books
Conflicts of Interest: Problems and Solutions from Law, Medicine and Organizational Settings (with D.A. Moore, and G. Loewenstein, and M. Bazerman, eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2005

Selected Book Chapters
"Regulating Behavior Off the Books." In B. Mannix, M. Neale, and A. Tenbrunsel, eds., Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Ethics and Groups (8), JAI Press, 2006

Selected Articles
"Overconfidence & Underconfidence: When and Why People Underestimate (and Overestimate) the Competition," (with D.A. Moore), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 103, No. 2, 197-213, 2007

"What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Me: Costly (But Quiet) Exit in Dictator Games," (with J. Dana and R. Dawes), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 100, No. 2, 193-201, 2006

"The Dirt on Coming Clean: The Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest" (with G. Loewenstein and D. A. Moore), Journal of Legal Studies, January, 1-25, 2005

Education
Russell Sage Fellow, Harvard University, 2006 - 2007
PhD Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
MS Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
MA UNC-Chapel Hill, 2002
MA, Dalhousie University, 1997
First Class Honor's BA, Dalhousie University, 1996