Youngme Moon is Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation at Harvard Business School. She is also the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.[1]. At HBS, Professor Moon has taught in all of the major programs, and has served as Chair and Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program. She has received the HBS Student Association Faculty Award for teaching excellence on multiple occasions; she is also the inaugural recipient of the Hellman Faculty Fellowship, awarded for distinction in research.[2]. Youngme Moon is the first Asian-American woman to receive tenure at Harvard Business School.
Research and Teaching
Professor Moon's research and course development focuses on the intersection of business, branding, and culture. Her bestselling first book, Different, which Time Magazine referred to as “a poetic paean to originality,”[3] was published by Random House in 2010.[4] Her ideas have been published in a variety of academic and business journals, including the Harvard Business Review. Professor Moon's research has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. She has published more than a million case studies on companies ranging from Mircosoft to IKEA to Starbucks.
Biography
Youngme Moon currently serves on the Board of Directors of Avid Technology, Zulily, and The Honest Company. Moon is a former member of the Board of Governors for the American Red Cross.
Moon received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from Yale University. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, she was on the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Books
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, Crown Books/Random House, 2010. [5]
Corporate Boards
Avid Technology(director since 2005)[6]
Zulily(board member since 2013)[7]
The Honest Company(board member since 2014)
External links
- ^ http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6589
- ^ http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6589
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1997453,00.html
- ^ http://www.youngmemoon.com/Youngme_Moon___Welcome.html
- ^ http://www.youngmemoon.com/home.html
- ^ http://ir.avid.com/directors.cfm
- ^ http://investor.zulily.com/directors.cfm