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Dolly Chugh

  • Jacob. B. Melnick Term Professor
  • Faculty Director, Leadership Accelerator

Joined Stern 2006

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Kaufman Management Center

44 West Fourth Street, 7-55

New York, NY 10012

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About Dolly Chugh

Dolly Chugh (she/her, hear my name) is a social psychologist and management professor at the New York University Stern School of Business where she teaches MBA courses in leadership and management. Because of Dolly’s teaching skills, she was one of six professors chosen from thousands at New York University to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020 and one of five to receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2013.

Dolly’s research focuses on “bounded ethicality,” which she describes as the “psychology of good people.” Her work has been published in the leading psychology, economics, and management journals, and cited by many books and authors. She has been named an SPSP Fellow, received the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper award, been named one of the top 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine, and received many other research honors.

Dolly is best known for her two books The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias (HarperCollins, 2018) and A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with our Past and Driving Social Change (Simon & Schuster, 2022).

Her work has received rave praise from Adam Grant, Angela Lee Duckworth, Liz Wiseman, Billie Jean King, Kenji Yoshino, and many others. It has been covered on the TODAY Show, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the 10% Happier Podcast, the goop Podcast, NPR, Dr. Phil, and other media outlets.

Dolly’s TED Talk was named one of the 25 Most Popular TED Talks of 2018 and currently has almost 5 million views.

Prior to becoming an academic, Dolly worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Sibson and Company, Scholastic, and Time Inc. Dolly attended Cornell University where she majored in psychology and economics for her undergraduate degree and Harvard University for her MBA and PhD.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Bounded Ethicality
  • Bounded Awareness
  • Implicit Bias
  • Race and Gender
  • Negotiations
  • Management
    • Negotiation
  • Collaboration, Conflict & Negotiation
  • Developing Managerial Skills
  • Leadership In Organizations
  • Leadership Skills

  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, 2006

    Harvard University

  • M.A, Social Psychology, 2003

    Harvard Business School

  • M.B.A, General Management, 1994

    Harvard Business School

  • B.A., Psychology, Economics, 1990

    Cornell University

  • Theta Phi Alpha, Siena Medal (2021)

  • Academy of Management Journal, Best Paper Award (2020)

  • New York University, Distinguished Teaching Award (2020)

  • Action Book Club selection (2018)

  • Top 25 TED Talks of 2018 (2018)

  • The Greater Good Magazine, Favorite Books of 2018 (2018)

  • Next Big Idea Club finalist (2018)

  • Society of Personality and Social Psychology, SPSP Fellow (2018)

  • NYU Stern School of Business, Nominee, Stern MBA Professor of the Year (2015)

  • West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Hall of Honor (2015)

  • Stern School of Business, Teaching Excellence Award (2015)

  • Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics (2014)

  • NYU Stern School of Business, Nominee, Stern MBA Professor of the Year (2014)

  • SSRN Honor, Co-Author of One of the (2014)

  • Ethisphere Magazine, Top 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (2014)

  • New York University, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award (2013)

  • Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant in Behavioral Economics Research (2010)

  • Aspen Institute, Finalist, Faculty Pioneer, Rising Star Category (2010)

  • NYU Stern School of Business, Nominee, Stern MBA Professor of the Year (2009)

  • Aspen Institute, Finalist, Faculty Pioneer, Rising Star Category (2009)

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