ODC Webinar
ODC webinar to introduce the "Future of Organizations" fellows
Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 3PM CET
This ODC webinar, organized and moderated by Phanish Puranam (INSEAD), aims to introduce three Future of Organizations Fellows: Ying-Ying (Imperial), Yash Raj Shrestha (HEC Lausanne), and Arvind Karunakaran (Stanford University). The three fellows will outline their current research agendas and areas. The webinar will conclude with feedback/comments from the audience. Please see below for bios of the participants.
The ODC Future of Organizations Fellowships are designed to recognize and support promising young researchers whose work can help us better understand and adapt to the changes, such as technological and cultural, that seem to be accelerating and transforming organizations and their designs.
Ying-Ying Hsieh [Fellow and presenter]
Ying-Ying Hsieh is an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. She is also an Associate Centre Director of the Center for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial, she completed her Ph.D. in General Management at Ivey Business School, Canada. Her research focuses on decentralized organization designs powered by digital technologies like blockchain. Specifically, she focuses on the coordination, governance, and innovation processes within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that are self-organized without central authorities. Her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Organization Design.
Yash Raj Shrestha [Fellow and presenter]
Yash Raj Shrestha is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) at the University of Lausanne. He is also Group Head of Applied AI Lab. His research program aims to pioneer innovative and responsible advances in AI, fostering solutions that positively transform organizations and society. His research has appeared in leading outlets in both management and computer science, including Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Computational Sciences, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, EMNLP, IJCAI, ECAI, KDD, RecSys, MICCAI, CSCW, etc.
Arvind Karunakaran [Fellow and presenter]
Arvind Karunakaran is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He is a Core faculty of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO), Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), and a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the Digital Economy Lab (DEL). His research draws on organizational theory and sociology of work and occupations/professions to examine authority and accountability in the workplace, especially in the context of technological change. He received his Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Research Policy, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Phanish Puranam [Moderator]
Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD. Phanish’s research in organization science focuses on how organizations work, and how we can make them work better. His current work focuses on different ways in which intelligent algorithms relate to organizations, in their roles as tools (e.g., machine learning applied to organizational data), team-mates (e.g., human-AI collaboration), and as templates for organizing (blockchain, metaverse). Besides publishing his research extensively in peer reviewed journals, Phanish has also written several books, such as The Microstructure of Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2018), Corporate Strategy: Tools for analysis and decisions (co-authored with Bart Vanneste, Cambridge University Press, 2016), India Inside (co-authored with Nirmalya Kumar, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), and most recently, Re-Humanize: How to build human centric organizations in the age of algorithms (Penguin Random House Publishers).
Registration closes 19th Mar, 2025 at 9 am (eastern time)
Hope you will be able to join us!
