Dr. I P L Png

Professor

Biography

Png is a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and the Departments of Economics and Information Systems and Analytics (by courtesy) at the National University of Singapore. Presently (2023-24), he is an NUS Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles (1985-96), and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993-96). He was a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College (2011-12), and at the Dyson School, Cornell University (2016). Png attended the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore and graduated with first-class honours in economics from the University of Cambridge (1978) and a PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1985). His research focuses on the economics of productivity and innovation. Recent work is forthcoming or has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He was/is the Principal Investigator of major grants funded by the Social Sciences Research Council, Singapore (SPIRE (Service Productivity and Innovation Research), $4.75 million, 2017-22; BeWork (Behavioural Biases at Work), $1.63 million, 2023-27). Png is the author of Managerial Economics, which has been published in multiple editions and adapted into Chinese (traditional and simplified characters), Korean, and Polish.

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