Jeff Loewenstein

Jeff Loewenstein is a Professor and Area Chair of Organizational Behavior/Business Law at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a professorship in Biomedical and Translational Sciences and serves as a Faculty Scholar at the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society.

Loewenstein's research centers on creativity, negotiation, and analogical reasoning. His work explores how perspective shifts enhance creative idea recognition, how analogical encoding improves ethical decision-making, and the dynamics of negotiation processes. His research fingerprint reveals key areas including Creativity Assessment (100%), Plot Structure (92%), Analogical Encoding (78%), Knowledge Transfer (71%), Perspective Shift (65%), Negotiators (61%), and Negotiation Skills (52%). He has developed influential frameworks for understanding creativity evaluation and knowledge transfer in organizational contexts.

His recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on creativity assessment processes, negotiation dynamics, and ethical decision-making. Notable works include 'My Department or My Company?' (2024), which examines identity configurations in organizations; 'Hidden costs of text-based electronic communication' (2022), which investigates communication media effects; and 'Analogical Encoding Fosters Ethical Decision Making' (2021), which has received significant scholarly attention with 36 citation indexes.

• Creativity Assessment (100%)
• Plot Structure (92%)
• Analogical Encoding (78%)
• Knowledge Transfer (71%)
• Perspective Shift (65%)

Loewenstein teaches courses including BADM 314 - Leading Negotiations, BADM 508 - Leadership and Teams, BADM 588 - Business Practice Immersion, BADM 590 - Negotiations, and MBA 552 - Fostering Creative Thinking. His teaching emphasizes practical applications of negotiation strategies, leadership development, and creative problem-solving techniques. His scholarly output includes 47 research publications with significant impact across organizational behavior, psychology, and business ethics domains.