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Kanchan Mukherjee

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Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management
Chairperson, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Five-year fulltime programme
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Summary

Dr. Kanchan Mukherjee is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Doctoral Program at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MBA from IIM Calcutta and PhD in Decision Sciences from INSEAD, France. His research interest is in behavioral decision making. He has published in leading academic journals like PNAS, Psychological Review, Management Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.  He is a recipient of the Hillel Einhorn Award from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making and his research has been featured extensively in various press and media outlets. He won the “Lifestyle for Environment” (LiFE) Global Call for Ideas & Papers, a sustainability effort launched by India’s PM, Shri Narendra Modi at COP26, Glasgow. He has also consulted for the Government of India on policy matters of national importance.

His current research involves large scale field studies on reducing energy use in airconditioned hotel rooms as well as a multiyear study on inducing water conservation behavior in households. He is also exploring how Gen AI affects group dynamics.

Accomplishments

He is interested in basic and applied research in Decision Making, both modelling and experimental. His publications include:

  • Vivek, V., Malghan, D. & Mukherjee, K. (2021) Towards achieving persistent behavior change in household water conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(24). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023014118
  • Mukherjee, K. & Upadhyay, D. (2019) Effect of mental construals on cooperative and competitive conflict management styles. International Journal of Conflict Management, 30(2), 202-226.
  • Tatavarthi, D.A. & Mukherjee, K. (2019) Payment modes and their effect on durable goods replacement. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 36(4), 484-493.
  • Mukherjee, K. (2014). Leading in troubled times. Indian Management, February 2014, 84-87.
  • Jain, K., Mukherjee, K., Bearden, JN, and Gaba, A. (2013). Unpacking the future: A nudge toward wider subjective confidence intervals. Management Science, 59(9), 1970-1987.
  • Hogarth, RM, Mukherjee, K., and Soyer, E. (2013). Assessing the chances of success: Naïve statistics vs. kind experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39(1), 14-32.
  • Mukherjee, K. (2011). Thinking styles and risky decision making: Exploration of the affect probability weighting link. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24(5), 443-455.
  • Mukherjee, K. and Hogarth, RM (2010). The N-effect: Possible effects of differential probabilities of success. Psychological Science, 21(5), 745-747. [Non-academic press citation in “Vying for the prize: Competition in large and small groups” by DJ Siegel in Observer, November 2010.]
  • Mukherjee, K. (2010). A dual system model of preferences under risk. Psychological Review, 117(1), 243-255. [Winner of the 2011 Hillel Einhorn Award from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.]

  • Decision Making (MBA elective)
  • Managing people and performance in organizations (MBA core course)
  • Behavioural decision making (Doctoral elective)
  • Behavioral sustainability (Doctoral elective)
  • Decision making; managerial psychology; leadership; strategic thinking (Other academic institutions; Executive Education programs)

He has advised several organizations, both in the public and private sectors. He also advises start-ups and growing companies.

  • PhD (Management) INSEAD, France
  • MSc (Management) INSEAD, France
  • PGDM, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
  • BTech (Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

  • Winner of LiFE’s Global Call for Ideas, 2023 (grant of USD 25,000)
  • The 2011 Hillel Einhorn Award for research excellence from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making
  • Information Technology Research Academy, Media Lab Asia research grant of Rs. 3.2 million (~USD 50,000)
  • Winner of IIMB Challenge Grant of Rs. 2.5 million (~USD 40,000)
  • Young Faculty Research Chair at IIM Bangalore, 2012-2015
  • INSEAD PhD fellowship, 2004-2009
  • INSEAD R & D grant of €16,000, 2007-2008
  • Ranked 189/200,000+ candidates (99.9 percentile) in the All India IIT Entrance Exam
  • Played Table Tennis at the National level. Many times State T.T. champion and State team captain