Amit Mukherjee

Professor Mukherjee’s research simultaneously addresses leadership, technology, and strategy. MIT Press, in collaboration with Sloan Management Review, is publishing his new book, Leading in the Digital World: How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity (April 2020) as a part of its curated series, “Management on the Cutting Edge.” The book addresses how the core demands of leadership are changing profoundly as digital technologies transform both the core attributes of work (e.g., more thought-driven than muscle-powered) and corporate organizational structures (e.g., distributed over time and space).

A prior book, The Spider’s Strategy, was named “One of the 30 best business books of 2009.” Professor Mukherjee has published heavily cited papers in the premier academic journal, Management Science, and many practitioner-oriented works in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and many other media. He has advised CXOs of companies like SAP, co-designed and taught 80+ executive education programs for companies like FedEx, and delivered keynote addresses for top executives at companies like Rio Tinto and 3M.

Professor Mukherjee has two decades of full-time industry experience. He has led or advised several multi-organization teams that created major “can’t be done” digital and non-digital outputs. As the CTSO of a small NASDAQ-listed, digital native, hard technology company, he oversaw the launch of a key product while guiding the development of its next-generation version. As a practice leader in two consulting companies, and through his own boutique consultancy, he has advised CXOs at many companies (including Dunkin’, Bloomberg, and Colgate-Palmolive) on critical issues of strategy and leadership.

Professor Mukherjee has taught at three other top business schools. Most recently, he was Professor of Leadership and Strategy at IMD, the Swiss school that is globally renowned for executive education. He held visiting positions at Babson College, and began his academic career at INSEAD. His Doctorate is from Harvard Business School, MBA from Darden School/University of Virginia, and undergraduate engineering degree from BITS Pilani (India). He has lived in five countries and has worked in many more.

Publications

• Fostering Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
• How the Nature of Leadership is Changing in a Digital World
• Amit Mukherjee: seven principles shaping digital strategy and leadership
• Leading in the Digital World
• 5 Musts for Next-Gen Leaders
• There’s Always a Time Lag (With a Price Tag)
• The Ability to Navigate the In-Between Spaces
• The Case Against Agility
• The Need for ‘Techno-Supporting Skeptics’
• Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
• We Must Rescue ‘Win-Win’ From Its Buzzword Status
• The pressure for culture and gender equality is rising
• The Spider's Strategy
• Inspiring Employee Creativity
• The Need for Culture Neutrality
• The Impact of Knowledge on Quality
• Behind the Learning Curve: Linking Learning Activities to Waste Reduction
• Knowledge Driven Quality Improvement
• It May Be Time To Get Rid Of 'SMART' Management
• Why Tata's fallen Mistry recalls the legacy of Coke's Douglas Ivester
• Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals
• How to Recruit, Prepare Leaders for a VUCA World
• Leading for Creativity in the Digital Era
• This Time, It’s Existential
• Our World Is Interconnected. It’s Time Our Leaders Adapt.
• Amit S. Mukherjee on leading in the digital world: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris
• Amit S. Mukherjee on leading in the digital world: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris