Dan J Wang
Associate Professor of Business
Management
BA, Columbia University, 2007; MA, Stanford University, 2008; PhD, Stanford University, 2013
Joined CBS in 2013
Office:
723
Uris
Phone:
212-854-5875
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Dan Wang is Associate Professor of Business and (by courtesy) Sociology at Columbia Business School. He teaches the core EMBA and MBA Strategy Formulation course, an elective MBA course on Technology Strategy, and a PhD seminar on Organizational Theory. He received the 2020 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Core and the 2018 Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, Columbia Business School’s top teaching honor conferred by the graduating MBA class. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2018 list of “Best 40 Business School Professors under 40.” He earned his BA from Columbia University (Columbia College) and PhD from Stanford University.
Wang’s research lies at the intersection of business and society. Broadly, his work analyzes how social networks shape opportunities for entrepreneurship, innovation, and large-scale economic and social transformation. One of his research streams focuses the global migration of high-skilled individuals. Specifically, Wang has studied “reverse brain drain”, or how the return migration of skilled professionals spreads knowledge, practices, technologies, and new ventures to different parts of the world. Another research area focuses on how social activism creates an interface between business and society. In this work, Wang has analyzed collaboration networks across social movements to predict innovation, knowledge sharing, strategic choices, and protest scope across activist groups. Finally, in on-going work on entrepreneurship, he has analyzed the implications of different network structures of venture capital syndication for the innovation output and financial performance of start-ups.
His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Social Forces, Social Networks, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Theory and Society. He has served as a consulting editor for The American Journal of Sociology. His work has been cited in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. His research has also been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management, and he has been awarded both the Dissertation (2012) and Junior Faculty Fellowship (2017) from the Kauffman Foundation. He has also contributed to practitioner-oriented publications such as Strategy+Business, and written Op-Eds for CNN.
Memberships & Affiliations
Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom.(Annual teaching award given to one professor by graduating MBA class at Columbia Business School.)