About
Kishore Sengupta is a Reader in Operations at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Kishore’s current research, teaching and consulting activities are focused on managing complex projects, managing complexity in organizations, and the future of work in the age of technological discontinuity.
Kishore’s academic and professional career has been in organisations in the United Kingdom, United States of America, France, Hong Kong and India. Before coming to Cambridge in 2014, Kishore held faculty positions at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (2000-2014), the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA (1989-2000), and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1996-1998). He has also worked at the AT&T Network Software Center and Ernst and Young. His responsibilities have included serving as advisor on complex projects with large organizations, and the U.S. Government Department of Defense. Kishore’s consulting activities involve organizations in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Kishore has published in top journals in various academic disciplines, as well as in the business literature, e.g., Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, and European Business Review. Among them is a widely acclaimed article in the Harvard Business Review on how managers fail to learn from experience. The accompanying podcast is one of the most-downloaded in INSEAD’s history (https://tinyurl.com/yatqsvnd). Kishore has also contributed to the online section of the Harvard Business Review (https://tinyurl.com/yd8ym857, https://tinyurl.com/yd8amggb). His research has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal (http://tinyurl.com/kgaopcy). Kishore has won several awards, including a European Case Clearing House Case Award in the Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management category.