Celebrating 15 Years

The Power of Us: 2024 in Review

by Bridgette Gray, CEO

This year has been a testament to the idea that we are greater than the sum of our parts. We’ve collaborated with partners around the world in a range of fields. Here are a few projects that showcase how much more we accomplish together.

Courts Without Fear

by The ideas42 Team

How Kansas City Municipal Court is leveraging insights from behavioral science to help more people voluntarily clear their nonappearance warrants, without the threat of being arrested.

Ten Questions with Antoinette Schoar: On Financial Heuristics, Scaling, and Storytelling

by The ideas42 Team

Financial Heuristics Training is one of ideas42’s most successful field-based interventions, one that has been replicated and scaled across geographies and populations. ideas42 co-founder Antoinette Schoar reflects on how the training program has evolved, and how this model has influenced ideas42’s approach to real-world problems.

Expanding who can “do” behavioral science

by The ideas42 Team

Our Behavioral Design Center has shown that by modeling with nonprofits how to ask the right questions, we can help them develop effective, evidence-based designs.

Welcoming our new CEO, Bridgette Gray

by The ideas42 Team

ideas42’s Board of Directors enthusiastically announced the selection of Bridgette Gray as the nonprofit’s new CEO. Effective immediately, she will lead ideas42, one of the world’s top applied behavioral design firms.

ideas42 at 15: A Decade and a Half of Impact Driven by Applied Behavioral Science

by The ideas42 Team

Fifteen years ago, ideas42 was founded on the belief that many of the world’s greatest challenges could benefit from harnessing a deep understanding of human behavior.

Since then, we’ve been at the forefront of pioneering a new approach: centering insights about how people actually make decisions, and reflecting sensitivity to the unique contexts that shape people’s everyday lives.