Dr. Ritu Tripathi is an applied social and cross-cultural psychologist. In her last appointment, she worked as an Assistant Professor (tenured/permanent) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Ritu received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with Dr. Daniel Cervone as her Ph.D Advisor. Her dissertation focus was on cultural variations in the motivational impact of autonomy and obligations among Indian and American corporate professionals. At UIC, she was the recipient of the the prestigious Dean’s Scholar Award. which is the most distinguished award that UIC offers to graduate students, in recognition of a student’s scholarly achievement. Prior to UIC, Ritu received her B.A. and M.A. degrees (merit rank holder) in Psychology from the University of Allahabad, India. Ritu has published in high-impact scholarly journals such as Human Resource Management, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Research in Personality, Cross-cultural and Strategic Management --among others. Her viewpoints and opinion pieces have appeared in mainstream media outlets such as Forbes (India), Live Mint, Times of India. She has taught the core course of the MBA-curriculum Managing People and Performance in Organizations and a popular MBA-elective called Cross-cultural Management. She received the Dewang Mehta Foundation Award for Best Professor in Human Resource Management in 2013. Besides her MBA teaching, she has successfully designed and taught short modules of her courses for working executives and business leaders to keep the teaching relevant to industry and to make working professionals appreciate the importance of scholarly insights and knowledge. Such modules have got very positive feedback from the industry.