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Phanish Puranam

Professor of Strategy

The Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design

Research Director of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance

Phanish Puranam

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 (e.g. multi-agent orchestration).

Besides publishing his research extensively in peer reviewed journals (see link to Personal Website), Phanish has also written several books. His most recent book “re-Humanize” is written for a general audience and explores what organizations of the future might look like, in the light of rapid changes in technology and culture.

At INSEAD Phanish Puranam founded and co-directs the AI for Business and the Human Capital in the Age of AI programmes for senior executives.

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Technology & Innovation

What's Actually New in the AI Risk Debate?

Ö. Koçak, P. Puranam, N. Truong

AI agents have developed the ability to band together. We might need organisation design to contain them.

Leadership & Organisations

Beyond Automation: How AI Is Changing Management

P. Puranam, P. Gulati, A. Marchetti

AI isn’t only changing what work gets done; it’s also changing how organisations coordinate, allocate authority and manage interdependence.

Leadership & Organisations

Can Leaders Count on Self-Organisation?

Phanish Puranam

When you design for pure self-organisation, you usually don’t achieve it. Here’s what’s missing.

Strategy

The AI Maturity Pyramid

V. F. He, P. Puranam

Why AI transformation starts at the bottom.
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Technology & Innovation

AI & Jobs: Are Companies Prepared for the Workforce Revolution?

A.J. Yap, V. Sevcenko, P. Puranam

Three words – reskill, rehire, recreate – could define organisations’ response to the AI disruption.
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Technology & Innovation

AI & Jobs: What Workers Can Do to Protect Themselves

P. Puranam, S.Y. Chun, W. Jiang, V. Sevcenko

Some jobs aren’t coming back; more are being redesigned and restructured. We size up the impact of AI on jobs in this special series.