Hyo Kang is an Associate Professor at the SNU Business School, Seoul National University. Before joining SNU, he earned his PhD from Berkeley Haas and served as an Assistant Professor at Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

His research focuses on technological innovation, examining how business regulations and policies incentivize firm innovation, the management of innovation processes, and the organizational implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

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[Academic Positions]

• •Associate Professor in Strategy and International Management, SNU Business School, Seoul National University (2024-present)
• •Assistant Professor in Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (2019-2024)

[Education]

• •Ph.D. in Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2013-2019)
• •M.S. in Business Administration, Seoul National University (2011-2013)
• •B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University (2005-2011)

[Publications]

• •Price-Fixing Cartels and Firm Innovation, Management Science (Kang, H. 2024)
• •How Does AI Improve Human Decision-Making? Evidence from the AI-powered Go Program, Strategic Management Journal (Choi, S., Kang, H., Kim, N. & Kim, J. 2024)
• •Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-term Visits on Firms' Invention Outcomes, Organization Science (Kang, H. & Eklund, J.C. 2024)
• •How Innovating Firms Manage Knowledge Leakage: A Natural Experiment on the Threat of Worker Departure, Strategic Management Journal 43(10): 1961-1982 (Kang, H. & Lee, W. 2022)
• •Non-competes, Business Dynamism, and Concentration: Evidence from a Florida Case Study, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 29(3): 663-685 (Kang, H. & Fleming, L. 2020)
• •Blending Talents for Innovation: Team Composition for Cross-border R&D Collaboration Within Multinational Corporations, Journal of International Business Studies 51: 851-885 (Seo, E., Kang, H., & Song, J. 2020)
• •Innovation and Recurring Shifts in Industrial Leadership: Three Phases of Change and Persistence in the Camera Industry, Research Policy 46(2): 376-387 (Kang, H. & Song, J. 2017)

Coauthorship as a member of a consortium (peer-reviewed):
• •Reproducibility in Management Science, Management Science 70(3): 1343-1356 (Fisar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok. E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration, 2024)

[Selected Working Papers]

• •Should Firms Maintain Patents Longer? A Randomized Control Trial on the Commercial Value of Patent Protection, R&R at Organization Science (Thompson, N., Tucci, C., Kang, H., & Khairullina, A. 2024)
• •Flying through Turbulent Environments: Physical Resource Reconfiguration and Redeployment in the Airline Industry, Working Paper (Eklund, J.C. & Kang, H. 2024)
• •The Dual Edges of AI: Advancing Knowledge While Reducing Diversity, Working Paper (Choi, S., Kang, H., Kim, N., & Kim, J. 2024)
• •Cross-border Visits and Scientific Collaboration, Working paper (Kang, H. & Yoon, C. 2024)
• •Exploratory innovation under capital market pressure: A randomized policy experiment of short-selling constraint, Working Paper (Seo, E., Kang, H. & Kang, J. 2023)

[Academic Activities]

• •Representative-at-Large, SMS Strategic Human Capital IG (2024-)
• •Organizer, SMS Conference - SHC IG's Sunday Session (2024)
• •Co-organizer, So-Cal Strategy and OT Workshop (2023-2024)
• •Co-chair, Artificial Intelligence in Management (AIM) Conference (2023-)
• •Organizer, 2024 SMS Conference - SHC IG's Sunday Session (2024)
• •Track Chair, TIM Division, AOM Annual Meeting (2022)
• •Panelist
• - AI, Business, & Policy Panel hosted by USC IDC (Washington DC, 2023)
• - The Future of Strategic Management in the Era of AI by KSSM (2023)
• - The Current State and Future of Technology Strategy Research by KAM (2021)
• •Discussant
• - AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting (New Orleans, 2023)
• - AIEA-NBER Conference (Seoul, 2022)
• - DRUID Conference (Copenhagen, 2022)
• - International Industrial Organization Conference (Boston, 2019)
• •Advisory Professor, QANDA/Mathpresso (an EdTech startup) (2023-2024)
• •AIEA Faculty Scholar, Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (2024-)
• •Ph.D. student recruiting committee, USC-Marshall MOR Department (Chair: 2024, Member: 2020-2023)

[Reviewing Service]

• •Editorial review board, Strategic Management Journal (2024-)
• •Ad-hoc reviewer: Management Science; Strategic Management Journal; Organization Science; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Research Policy; Industrial and Corporate Change; Journal of Business Research; Information Systems Research; International Journal of Industrial Organization; Journal of Industrial Economics; AOM Annual Meetings; SMS Conferences; INFORMS-OS Best Dissertation Competition; AKMS Scholarship

[Awards and Fellowships]

• •Winner, MK-AKMS Young Scholar Award (2024)
• •Winner, AOM STR Track Paper Award - Resources, Capabilities, and Strategic Factor Markets (2024)
• •Best Paper Finalist, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) (2023)
• •1st Runners Up (Innovation Track), wISE Conference (2023)
• •Winner, iORB Multi-Disciplinary Research Initiative Award ($19,400) (2022)
• •Winner, Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (Strategic Human Capital IG), SMS Conference (2021)
• •Winner, CRESSE & CPI Awards for Young Researchers (2021)
• •Winner, Greif Entrepreneurship Faculty Research Award (2021)
• •Winner, Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI) Award, Association of Korean Management Scholars (2019)
• •Winner, AmorePacific Award for Best Conference Papers, Academy of International Business (AIB) (2019)

For more information, visit my website (hyokang.com) or Google Scholar page.