The 7th Oskar Morgenstern Medal is awarded to INSEAD Professor Phanish Puranam, a leading expert in organizational design and strategy

Following the announcement of this year’s laureate, we are pleased to cordially invite you to the award ceremony of the Oskar Morgenstern Medal 2025 hosted by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics (University of Vienna).

This year’s Oskar Morgenstern Medal honors Prof. Phanish Puranam (INSEAD) for his pioneering contributions to organization science. His work combines analytical rigor with real-world impact, shaping how we understand and design organizations in an increasingly complex, interconnected, and technology-driven world.
In particular, Prof. Puranam’s research explores how decision-making architectures can be improved and how artificial intelligence can be integrated into organizations in a way that fosters collaboration, innovation, and human-centeredness.
The award highlights the importance of rethinking the future of organizations – a theme that Prof. Puranam will address in his public lecture “Designing Organizations in the Age of Algorithms”.

Award Ceremony 2025

Date: Thursday, 9. October 2025. Time: 14:00 – 15:00
Place: Sky Lounge (12. OG), Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

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Speakers include:

Univ.- Prof. Dr. Karl F. Dörner (Dean of the Faculty)

Univ.- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schütze (Rector of the University of Vienna)

FM Mag. Eva Maria Holzleitner, BSc. (Federal Minister of Women, Science and Research)

Laudatio: Univ.- Prof. Dr. Markus Reitzig

Following the award ceremony, we warmly invite you to join Prof. Phanish Puranam for his public lecture:

„Designing Organizations in the Age of Algorithms“

Date: Thursday, 9. October 2025  Time: 15:30 – 17:00

Place: HS1 (EG), Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna

The capacity to organize ourselves to pursue a variety of goals is one of the oldest and most powerful technologies our species has developed. Phanish Puranam will draw on his research to describe how organizations and their designs are being impacted by another powerful, far more recently developed technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI). He will highlight the challenges that lie ahead for organizations when adopting AI technologies in a manner that is both goal centric and human-centric.

As a recognized expert in organizational design, he is currently investigating how intelligent algorithms relate to organizations—whether as tools, cooperation partners, or templates for new forms of organization.

At INSEAD, Puranam leads the “Organizations and Algorithms” research initiative and advises executives from business, politics, and international institutions. He received his PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and previously taught at the London Business School, where he also served as academic director of the doctoral program.

If you have any questions or are unable to attend, please contact
oeffentlichkeitsarbeit.wiwi@univie.ac.at . 

Best regards,
Public Relations
Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
University of Vienna