Phanish Puranam

Professor and director

Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger chaired professor of strategy and organization design at INSEAD. He is also the academic director of INSEAD’s Ph.D. program.

 

Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:01
When Is Cool Office Design More Than Window Dressing? Without a firm anchor in organizational design, fun, playful embellishments can be unwelcome additions to the workplace
Wed, 09/18/2019 - 12:01
Flying sharks, waterfalls in the lobby, in-house top chefs, and dogs in the workplace. These are just a few tangible examples of experience design reimagining organizations beyond the traditional scope of organization design. Organization design is…
How to Make Corporate Hierarchy More Likable If you can’t flatten it, then soften it
Wed, 12/20/2017 - 12:03
What would you say about a system that improves performance but is disliked by a significant percentage of those participating in it? Conventional organizational hierarchy may be just such a system. Yet plenty of theorists—including, at times,…
How Your Bonus Affects Your Colleagues’ Behavior Real-life social experiment compares pay-for-performance vs. fixed salary outcomes
Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:01
When organizations change how they compensate employees they are embarking on a social experiment, whether decision-makers know it or not. The trouble is the vast majority of these experiments are conducted unscientifically, yielding results that…