Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. I have a PhD from INSEAD and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B).

I teach the core MBA course on ‘Leading Self and Teams’, and the elective on ‘Negotiation Analysis’.

My research takes a micro-foundational lens to examine entrepreneurial and organizational behaviour in socially and economically constrained contexts within emerging markets. I pursue this agenda by studying two complementary settings in India: (a) micro-entrepreneurship and grass-roots organizations, where women entrepreneurs and community agents operate under conditions of poverty and restrictive social norms, and (b) family business and elite entrepreneurship, where successful entrepreneurs and family business owners build ventures shaped by social origins and the institutional imprinting of non-Western contexts.

I conduct field experiments/RCTs, lab-in-the-field studies, and survey-based research to generate insights that are academically rigorous and relevant for policy and practice. I collaborate closely with entrepreneurs, development organizations and government agencies to identify challenges, co-design contextually grounded solutions, and evaluate the impact of programmes at scale.

I serve on the Editorial Review Board of the Strategic Management Journal, and am an active member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

You can connect with me via email: leenakinger_hans@isb.edu.