Dan J Wang
Lambert Family Associate Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
Management
Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
BA, Columbia University, 2007; MA, Stanford University, 2008; PhD, Stanford University, 2013
Joined CBS in 2013
Office:
952
Kravis
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, where he is also the Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. His research examines how social networks drive social and economic transformation through the analysis of global migration, social movements, organizational innovation, and entrepreneurship. He teaches the core MBA Strategy Formulation course, an elective MBA course on Technology Strategy, a PhD seminar on Organizational Theory. He also teaches in several Executive Education programs on Social Networks and Technology Strategy. He earned his BA from Columbia University (Columbia College) and PhD from Stanford University.
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.” In 2021, he received the Robert W. Lear Service Award, given by the graduating class for his commitment to the MBA student body.
Wang’s research lies at the intersection of business and society with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. One of his main research streams focuses on the global migration of high-skilled individuals. Specifically, Wang studies “reverse brain drain”, or how the return migration of skilled professionals spreads ideas, technologies, and new ventures to different parts of the world. Another research area focuses on how social protest and activism create 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 currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and Special Issue Editor for Organization Science and has served as a Consulting Editor for The American Journal of Sociology. He is co-editor of the book series, Elements in the Structural Analysis of Culture, Social Organization, and History with Cambridge University Press. His work has been cited in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR and has been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management. He has also 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.)
Teaching
Spring 2022
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Spring 2020
Fall 2020
Spring 2019
Fall 2019
Spring 2018
Fall 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
DigitalOcean: Finding a Fresh Strategy for Cloud Computing
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Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
Jumia Group: Adapting Global Strategy to Local Markets
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan J. Wang
Swvl: “Revolutionizing Mass Transit and Shared Mobility”
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
LinkedIn Learning: Strategy Tradeoffs at a Multi-Sided Platform Firm
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
Mastercard’s Organizational Structure: The Making of a New AI Powerhouse
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang, C. Daniel Guetta
Kakao Talk
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Dan J. Wang
Autonomous Vehicles: Futurist Technologies in Markets and Society
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
PepsiCo and Frito-Lay: A Salty Combination?
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang, Stephan Meier
Zara’s Sustainability Dilemma
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Vanessa Burbano, Bennett Chiles, Dan J. Wang
Meta’s Role in Society
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
Tinder: From Swiping Right to Scaling Up
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
Uber: New Roads Ahead
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Evan Rawley, Dan J. Wang
Uber: Driving into Uncharted Territory
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang, Evan Rawley
IEX: A Leader’s Quest for Equity
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Dan J. Wang
Brooklyn Brewery: Setting the Course for Growth
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan J. Wang
Netflix: Continuous Innovation or Self Destruction?
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Dan J. Wang
Research
Journal articles
Learning vs. Leakage: Indirect Ties to Competitors and Firm Innovation
In Academy of Management Journal
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Emily Cox, Rory McDonald
Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation
In Academy of Management Journal
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Emily Cox, Rory McDonald, Dan Wang, Benjamin Hallen
Streams of Thought: Knowledge Flows and Intellectual Cohesion in a Multidisciplinary Era
In Social Forces
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Craig Rawlings, Daniel McFarland, Linus Dahlander, Dan Wang
Activating brokerage: Interorganizational knowledge transfer through skilled return migration
In Administrative Science Quarterly
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Social stratification in transitional economies: property rights and the structure of markets
In Theory and Society
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Is There a Canon in Economic Sociology?
In Journal of Economic Sociology
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Measurement error in network data: A re-classification
In Social Networks
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995
In American Journal of Sociology
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
The Life and Death of Online Groups: Predicting Group Growth and Longevity
In Web Science and Data Mining
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Working papers
Agency and Homophily: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Dan Wang
Do Richer Foreign Work Experiences Lead to Intrapreneurial Success? Evidence from Microdata
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
How Social Ties Bias Group Decisions: Results from Laboratory and Field Experiments on Abstract Art and Wine
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Jackson Lu, Sheena Iyengar
Micro-Structural Foundations of Network Inequality: Evidence from Observation Data and Field Experiments
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Mathijs De Vaan, Dan Wang
Modeling Oral Business History Data: An Application to Markets and CEO Communication
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Prithwiraj Chourdury, Dan Wang, Natalie Carlson, Tarun Khanna
Social comparison in tie-formation: Which reference groups are relevant?
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Mathijs De Vaan, Dan Wang
Social Comparison in Tie-Formation: Which Reference Groups Are Relevant?
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Mabel Abraham, Mathijs De Vaan, Dan Wang
Strategic Adaptation Amid Institutional Uncertainty in Foreign-Market Entry: The Case of Chinese Cross-Border Investment Syndicates, 1991 to 2011
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
The Impact of Mentorship on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in an Online Educational Platform
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Zhang Ting
To Stay, Go, or Circulate? How Cross-Border Networks Affect Returnees' Transitional Migration Intentions
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
What Makes You Fly: Explaining Entrepreneurs' Success in Angel Investing
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Alessandro Piazza, Dan Wang
When Do Specialists Become Entrepreneurs? The Triggering Effect of Social Network Knowledge Diversity
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, K.J. Hwang, Modupe Akinola
Cultural Distance and Intercultural Exchange: Unpacking the Psychological Pathway of Inspiration
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Zou Xi, Dan Wang, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Dan Cable
How Social Ties Bias Group Decisions: Results from Laboratory and Field Experiments on Abstract Art and Wine
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Jackson Lu, Sheena Iyengar
When Do Specialists Become Entrepreneurs? The Triggering Effect of Social Network Knowledge Diversity
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Kylie Hwang, Modupe Akinola
United We Stand? Venture-Capital Syndicates' Joint Co-investment Experience and Entrepreneurial Exits
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Emily Cox Pahnke, Rory McDonald
Who learns from whom? Asymmetric learning in Chinese cross-border investment syndicates, 1991-2011
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Disruptive tactics and the use of violence in protest events: The efficacy-legitimacy trade-off
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Streams of Thought: Research Collaborations and Knowledge Flows in a Leading Research University
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Tactical Innovation in Protest: The Effects of Movement Spillover and Structural Isolation
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
The Liability Of Leakage: How Indirect Ties To Competitors Impact Innovation In Entrepreneurial Firms
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
The structural roots of collective influence in social networks
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang, Jure Leskovec
When do returnees become entrepreneurs? The effects of institutional environment and regional embeddedness
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Sharing technology, sharing rights: Patent law reform and R&D collaboration in China, 1985-2006
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Dan Wang
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
MBA Programs Must Adapt to Navigate American Culture Wars
Chaos at Twitter Brings up Doubts about Path Forward
Why Tech Layoffs Are Happening All at Once — and Why the Next Few Weeks Could Be the Worst of Them
Why the Latest Round of Tech Layoffs Feels a Bit Different
Apple at $3tn: The Enigma of Tim Cook
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
Poets and Quants'
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF)
2010 Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences
2010 Stanford University, Department of Sociology
2009 Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
2007 - 2008 American Academy of Political and Social Science
2007 Columbia University, Department of Sociology
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Section on Technology and Innovation Management