Sasa Zorc

Education: B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Zagreb; MBA, Cotrugli Business School Zagreb; M.Sc., Ph.D., INSEAD

Saša Zorc is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Data Analytics & Decision Sciences (DADS) area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

He teaches the core course Decision Analysis and the Games, Competition, and Cooperation elective in the MBA program, as well as a PhD course Dynamic Programming.

His research is primarily on matching markets and design of incentives, with much of it applied to healthcare settings. The central theme of his work is how can we design rules of complex systems (e.g., job markets, matching platforms, payment models in healthcare) in such a way that the system performs well, despite all individuals participating in the system perusing their individual and often conflicted interests. Methodically, his research relies on stochastic dynamic games, search theory, mechanism design, contract theory as well as data-driven simulations of those systems. His research has been published in Management Science and Operations Research, and has been recognized in a number of best paper competitions, including the Pierskalla Award, IBM Service Science Award, Decision Analysis Publication Award, and the Junior Faculty Interest Group Award.

Saša currently serves as an Associate Editor of Service Science.

Before joining Darden, Saša completed his PhD in Decision Sciences at INSEAD, and worked as a management consultant for Kearney.