Mukti Khaire is Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell Tech and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She received a PhD in Management in 2006 from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Before that, she completed a Masters in Management from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay and a Master of Science in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Pune, India. Prior to joining Cornell Tech in 2016, she was on the faculty of Harvard Business School (Entrepreneurial Management Unit; 2005-2016) and spent a year as Visiting Faculty in Brown University (Sociology; 2015-2016).
Mukti’s research focuses on entrepreneurship in the creative industries, such as art, advertising, architecture and design, fashion, film, music, publishing, and theater. In particular, she is interested in understanding how entrepreneurs create markets for new categories of cultural goods by constructing their value, while also changing consumers’ beliefs about what attributes of cultural goods are appropriate and valuable. In this vein, Mukti studied the creation of a market for modern Indian art and the rise and establishment of the high-end fashion industry in India. Her work, which has been published in leading business and management journals, has shed light on the structure and functioning of creative industries and the business and societal implications of entrepreneurship in the cultural sector. Mukti has also authored 35 teaching cases on firms in the creative industries.
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This course deals broadly with leadership – of teams, projects, products, businesses, and communities. The course will pay special attention to leadership in the context of digital transformation and its social and economic impacts. Students will learn effective team-building and teamwork strategies, communication and presentation skills, and best practices for building a collaborative, creative and open culture in the workplace. As part of a personal development process, toolkits and exercises will be provided to promote critical thinking and moral reasoning skills. Sessions on social and multicultural awareness and sensitivity will equip students to be global leaders in a digitally-transformed world. In short, this course will cover all aspects of how students can become leaders in a digital economy.
Johnson Cornell Tech Professor of Practice Mukti Khaire’s book “Culture and Commerce: The Value of Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries” explores the relationship between art and business.