Kris Gulati

"Science is the best thing that has happened to humans, but we can do it much better." 

I'm a fourth-year PhD student interested in strategy and innovation, with a penchant for experiments. I think a lot about three things:

1. What is the role and influence of politics in organisations and on innovation?

2. How can we create better institutions to organise and manage innovation?

3. How will AI affect innovation?

Update: I'm spending the remainder of my PhD in Berkeley where I'm being advised by Abhishek Nagaraj in the Data Innovation Lab!

• I visited Dartmouth Jan - April '24 (hosted by Heidi Williams)

• I visited Berkeley Haas '23 - '24 (hosted by Solène Delecourt)

• I visited Harvard Business School '22 - '23 (hosted by Kyle Myers and Rem Koning)  

Let's chat: I'm happy to speak via Zoom!! Send me an email at [email protected].

Other: In my spare time I'm interested in effective altruism (I won two EA Forum comment prizes when they existed!), rationalist content, and progress studies. I like to do origami, sketch (bad) portraits, play VR video games, and in a former life I used to be a badminton player (yes, it's a real sport), and still occasionally dabble. I'm an Emergent Ventures fellow (a programme run by Tyler Cowen). I won the 2024 IHS Research Award for my work on the 'Politics of Science'.

Many people ask me if I'm related to Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) and there's no relationship. I hope I can live up to the family name...