IIMB News

The De Gruyter Handbook of Disability and Management, co-edited by Dr. Mukta Kulkarni, has been published by De Gruyter

Dr. Mukta Kulkarni, from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management department at IIM Bangalore, has co-edited the book ‘De Gruyter Handbook of Disability and Management’, which was published by De Gruyter and released on March 20th, 2023. The book is intended for scholars, as well as postgraduate students in management, disability studies, psychology, education, and law, and for anyone interested in the subject.

This book is part of the ‘De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics, and Finance’ series and was co-edited by Prof. Joy E. Beatty from Eastern Michigan University, USA, and Prof. Sophie Hennekam from Audencia Business School, France.


Dr. Pulak Ghosh has been honored with prestigious global awards.

Dr. Pulak Ghosh, a faculty member in the Decision Sciences department at IIM Bangalore, has been awarded two prestigious global awards. One of the awards was for the paper titled ‘How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech’, which was co-authored by Prof. Ghosh along with Francesco D’Acunto and Alberto Rossi. This paper received the ‘PBCSF Award for the Best Paper in FinTech’ at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Western Finance Association (WFA). The paper examines a leading Indian FinTech peer-to-peer lending platform and an automated robo-advising tool to detect and quantify the effects of cultural biases in large-stake risky choices.