Andy Yap

Andy Yap is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. Professor Yap holds a PhD and MPhil in Management from Columbia Business School, and a BSSc with Honours in Psychology from the National University of Singapore. Before joining INSEAD, Professor Yap was a faculty at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At INSEAD, Professor Yap teaches in a variety of programs including Executive Education, MBA, EMBA, and PhD. His teaching and consulting expertise includes Leadership, Leadership Communication, Executive Presence, Leading High-Impact Teams, Strategy Execution & Organizational Change, Power And Politics, and Managerial Negotiation. At MIT, Professor Yap taught the graduate/undergraduate course on Managerial Psychology and the core leadership MBA course on Organizational Processes.

Professor Yap is a social and organizational psychologist. His research program focuses on three overarching areas: (1) Signals of social status and its consequences, (2) The impact of hierarchy on person perception, and (3) How dimensions of social hierarchy affect important organisational outcomes (e.g. prosocial behaviour, subjective well-being, stress, organisational commitment and career decisions). Professor Yap’s work has important implications for how organisations can be structured to promote a workforce that is productive, motivated, and socially responsible.

Professor Yap's research has been published in leading academic journals including Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, as well as leading practitioner journals such as Harvard Business Review. His work has also been featured across a range of international media outlets including TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, The Atlantic, Financial Times, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), The Business Times (Singapore), The Straits Times (Singapore) and the US National Public Radio.

Professor Yap has been recognized with academic and teaching honours such as the American Psychological Association Early Graduate Student Researcher Award, the Donald C. Hambrick Award from Columbia Business School, nomination for the Best Teacher Award in the MBA program at INSEAD, and several other conference awards in Psychology, Marketing, and Management.

Education Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

• 2013 Ph.D. Management
• 2011 M.Phil. Management

National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences * 2007 Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology), with Second Upper Class Honours

Award & Honors

• 2020 Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching
• 2019 Executive Education Outstanding Teaching Award
• 2018 Best Paper Award, LVMH-SMU Luxury Research Conference
• 2017 Nomination Best Teacher Award, INSEAD MBA Program
• 2012 Best Research Poster Award, Association for Consumer Research
• 2011 American Psychological Association Early Graduate Student Researcher Award, Interdisciplinary Science
• 2011 Donald C. Hambrick Award for Excellence in the Ph.D. Program
• 2010 Best Paper Award in OB, Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School
• 2010 Society of Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award
• 2009 Dean’s List, Columbia University
• 2009 Fellow, SPSP Summer Institute of Social Psychology, Evanston
• 2008-2013 Graduate Student Fellowship, Columbia Business School
• 2005 Lee Foundation UBC-NUS Student Exchange Award
• 2003 Dean’s List, National University of Singapore