Mitali BANERJEE

Assistant Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

banerjeem@hec.fr https://mitalibanerjee.com

Biography

Mitali Banerjee studies the relationship between fame, creativity and social networks in creative industries. As part of this research, she examines how innovator's social networks shape how well-known they are beyond their peers. In related research she is examining, how producers' reputation among their peers shapes the amount of attention they receive in mainstream press. Her empirical contexts include early 20th century Modern artists and jazz musicians. In other research she is developing a computational model of creativity that can be applied to large scale analysis of complex creative output: as part of this project she is exploring the relationship between human and machine evaluations of creativity.

She completed her Ph.D. in Management from Columbia Business School. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Mathematics (BS) and Economics (BA) from the University of Rochester. Before embarking on her PhD, she worked in investment banking and was a research associate in the Strategy division at Harvard Business School.

Filter

Scientific articles

“Distinctive from What? And for Whom?” Deep Learning-Based Product Distinctiveness, Social Structure, and Third-Party Certifications

Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming, (in coll. with B. M. Cole, P. Ingram)

Proceedings

Conventional Revolutionaries: An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Artistic Innovators’ Novelty and Fame

Working papers

Fame as an Illusion of Creativity: Evidence from the Pioneers of Abstract Art

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

David Bomberg’s Path to Obscurity: The Creative and Social Trajectory of a Neglected Genius

Columbia University working paper , 2017

Social and Creative Basis for Fame: The Role of Social Structure and Creativity in Shaping Working Artistic Innovators’ Fame

Cahier de Recherche , 2017

Reputation Among Peers and the Fame (and Obscurity) of Artistic Innovators

Cahier de Recherche , 2016