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Faculty Profile

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Jared W.D. Nai is an award-winning Assistant Professor at SMU whose research and teaching span cooperation, prosocial behavior, diversity, and organizational design, with impactful contributions to both academia and public discourse.

Bridges rigorous experimental research with real-world organizational challenges, advancing understanding of cooperation, diversity, and fairness; recognized for both scholarly excellence and public engagement; consistently delivers high-impact teaching and mentorship, with multiple awards and strong student evaluations.

Focused research areas include Mechanisms of cooperation and prosociality in organizations; effects of diversity on behavior and inclusion; experimental studies on resource allocation, transparency, and fairness; network activation strategies in entrepreneurship; organizational decision-making and support.
Areas of Expertise
CooperationProsocial BehaviorOrganizational BehaviorHuman Capital Management

Education

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

Current Appointment(s)

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