Sreedhari Desai researches how individuals behave in organizations, with a focus on ethical decision making, fairness and gender diversity. In her work on ethics, for instance, Dr. Desai investigates broadly the role of ethical nudges or non-coercive ways of leading people down moral pathways. In her work on fairness, she examines how recalling unfair experiences from the past causes people to behave more fairly toward others. In her work related to gender diversity, she explores the influence of traditional marriage structures on egalitarian attitudes toward working women. Across all these projects Dr. Desai relies on carefully designed laboratory experiments paired with real-world data in her exploration of answers.