Sreedhari  Desai

About the researcher

Sreedhari Desai is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler Business School).  She is also a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (Harvard University) and at the Women and Public Policy program (Harvard Kennedy School). She obtained her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the David Eccles School of Business in the University of Utah. She did her undergraduate studies at the Punjab Engineering College in the field of Metallurgical Engineering, and has an M.S. degree in Finance from the University of Utah. Her research investigates how individuals behave in organizations, with a focus on ethical decision making, fairness and gender diversity.

Sreedhari was previously a research fellow in  the Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and the recipient of a Research Initiative Grant offered by the National Stock Exchange of India. She was also a recipient of the 2008 Mariner S. Eccles Graduate Fellowship in Political Economy for her dissertation and was a finalist for the 2008 ASPEN dissertation proposal award.

Sreedhari's work has been published in academic outlets such as the Encyclopedia of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and received extensive media coverage from journals such as the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Boston Globe, NineMSN, the Irish Times, the Financial Times, the Toronto Star, the Indian Express, the MotleyFool, the Huffington Post, the Economic Times, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Outlook Business, to name a few.