Kanchan Mukherjee

Dr. Kanchan Mukherjee is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. He has a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and a PhD in Decision Sciences from INSEAD, France. He held the Young Faculty Research Chair from 2012-2015 at IIM Bangalore.

His corporate experience, spanning almost a decade, is primarily in consulting and financial services, with focus on mergers & acquisitions, credit policy and risk management. He has several publications in leading academic and practitioner journals. He specializes in analytical modelling as well as experimental research methods including surveys and design of controlled experiments.He received the prestigious Hillel Einhorn Award from the US-based Society for Judgment and Decision Making in 2011 for research excellence. He is interested in basic and applied research in Decision Making, both modelling and experimental. His publications include:

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 of Judgment and Decision Making.]