The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Dolly Chugh is the award-winning author and narrator of The Person You Mean to Be. Chugh received her undergraduate degree in psychology and economics from Cornell University, her MA in social psychology from Harvard University, and her MBA and PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard Business School. After completing her studies in 2006, Chugh joined the faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University, where she received tenure in 2015. Since 2020, she has been Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor at Stern. Her advanced degrees from two Ivy League universities, combined with her years of research and teaching experience, make her an authoritative source on ethics, unconscious bias, inequality, and the psychology of “good” people, the primary foci of The Person You Mean to Be.

Chugh’s book has been widely lauded inside and outside academia. It received endorsements from several prominent American psychologists, including Angela Duckworth (University of Pennsylvania), Carol Dweck (Stanford University), and Adam Grant (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). Other endorsements have come from NYU legal scholar Kenji Yoshino and Liz Wiseman, CEO of a Silicon Valley leadership research and development firm, among others. The Person You Mean to Be was selected as Common Read for incoming students at Vanderbilt University (2020), Quincy College (2020), and Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business (2021 and 2022), further attesting to its value in academic contexts.