John T. Gasper Carnegie Mellon University | Tepper School of Business

Carnegie Mellon University

John T. Gasper

Teaching Professor of Economics

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

I teach economics at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, with courses and academic work that draw on behavioral economics, analytics, strategic decision making, and applied quantitative methods. My broader work includes curriculum development, learning evaluation, student success, and educational innovation across business education.

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John T. Gasper
Economics and business education Teaching, curriculum design, learning evaluation, and student success.

Teaching

Courses across behavioral economics, managerial economics, economics and data science, analytics, game theory, decision analysis, and empirical methods.

Curriculum & Programs

Course creation, major redesigns, program review, learning evaluation, faculty mentoring, and student success work across business education.

Research

Selected work in political economy, media bias, federalism, democratic accountability, disaster relief, formal modeling, and quantitative social science.

Teaching

Economics, analytics, and strategic thinking

My teaching focuses on making analytical ideas useful: helping students reason clearly, use evidence well, and connect economic models to decisions in organizations and public life.

Current Focus

Curriculum & Educational Innovation

My work in curriculum and educational innovation focuses on practical academic design: building courses and programs that are analytically rigorous, clear in their learning goals, and responsive to how students actually learn and work.

Across course redesigns, program review, learning evaluation, and student-success work, I try to connect quantitative reasoning with contexts where students can see why the tools matter and how good analysis changes decisions.

AI & Business Curriculum

Contributed to the redesign of Tepper’s undergraduate AI in Business concentration, with attention to strategic fluency, responsible use, human-AI collaboration, and the technical understanding needed to evaluate where AI creates business value.

Tepper Undergraduate Business

Client-Based Capstone Work

The Senior Project for Economics is an external-client capstone now entering its third year with a partner organization representing Iñupiat communities in Alaska’s North Slope. Student teams have developed applied projects on infrastructure, subsistence practices, public services, and economic sustainability.

Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat

AI, Work & Business Education

Current thinking focuses on how AI is changing work, skill development, assessment, and the role of business education in preparing students for AI-enabled organizations.

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Research

Selected research in political economy

My research has focused on political economy in American politics, using statistical and mathematical models to study accountability, federalism, disaster relief, media markets, and media bias.

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Curriculum Vitae

The full academic CV includes appointments, teaching, course development, research, undergraduate research supervision, grants, awards, and service.

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