Faculty Profile

Jared NAI

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources; Pillar Lead (Transforming Organisations)

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
jarednai@smu.edu.sg

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Ethics, Trust, Fairness
  - Human Capital Strategy and Management
  - Judgement and Decision-making, Negotiation
  - Culture and Cross-cultural Management
  - Positive Organisation (Mindfulness, Humility, Proactivity)
- Social Inclusion
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Entrepreneurship

Strategic Priorities

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Growth in Asia
Sustainable Living

Education

2017	Ph.D in Management and Organization National University of Singapore

Current Appointment(s)

2026 - Now	Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017 - 2025	Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Research Interests

Cooperation

Prosocial Behavior

Diversity

Entrepreneurship

Organizational Design

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

(Underline denotes doctoral student at start of project)

Tierney, W., Cyrus-Lai, W., … Nai, J., … & Uhlmann, E. Who Respects an Angry Woman? A Systematic Crowdsourced Re-Examination of the Relationships between Gender, Emotion Expression, and Status Conferral. Psychological Science, conditional accept.

Nai, J., Lin, Y, Kotha, R., & Vissa, B. (2022). A Foot in the Door: Field-experiments on Entrepreneurs’ Network Activation Strategies for Investor Referrals. Strategic Management Journal.

*Masters-Waage T. C., *Nai J., *Reb J., *Sim S., Narayanan J., & Tan N. (2021). Going far together by being here now: Mindfulness increases cooperation in negotiations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
*Equal contributions

Nai, J., Kotha, R., Narayanan, J., & Puranam, P. (2020). Transparency and Fairness in Organizational Decisions: An Experimental Investigation using the Paired Ultimatum Game. Strategy Science.

Nai, J., Narayanan, J., Hernandez, I., & Savani, K. (2018). People in more diverse neighborhoods are more prosocial. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Yam, K. C., Christian, M., *Wu, W., *Liao, Z. Y., & *Nai, J. (2018). The mixed blessing of leader sense of humor: Examining costs and benefits. Academy of Management Journal.
*Equal contributions

Awards

Dean’s Teaching Honor List, Singapore Management University, 2019-2023; 2025

Nominated for Most Promising Teacher Award, Singapore Management University, 2020