Phanish Puranam’s research in the field of organizational science focuses on how organizations work, and how we can make them work better. He is known for his research using computational methods to study organizations as complex adaptive systems.
Phanish holds the Roland Berger Chair Professorship in Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD. He leads the “Organizations and Algorithms” research program (supported by the Desmarais Fund at INSEAD) which has trained several doctoral students who are themselves now faculty at leading business schools, and which involves collaborators from around the world. In 2025 , he became the recipient of the Oskar Morgenstern Medal for distinguished contributions to research in business, economics and statistics, as well as the Sumantra Ghoshal Award for rigor and relevance in management research.
He is also an avid reader and writer of haiku.
