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Hyunjin Kim

Assistant Professor of Strategy

Biography

Hyunjin is a professor in the strategy area at INSEAD. Her research focuses on how data and artificial intelligence (AI) impact firm decisions, and the implications for how firms compete and build competitive advantage. She leverages field experiments and computational methods to explore these questions, collaborating closely with Fortune 500 companies as well as tech startups.

Her research has received generous funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, J-PAL, and Schmidt Sciences, and has been featured in Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Forbes, TIME, and Harvard Business Review. Hyunjin serves as an editorial board member at the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategy Science. She also co-leads the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS) and is the founder and chair of the AI Venture Lab.

Hyunjin earned her bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, and masters degrees from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. Prior to academia, she co-founded and managed an early-stage venture capital fund, and worked at Knewton and McKinsey & Company.

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Can Asia Benefit From the AI Boom?

S. Hasija, H. Kim

With AI democratising knowledge and enabling more capital- and labour-efficient businesses, could the “Asian Century” finally be on the horizon?

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The Unintended Consequences of GenAI

P. Puranam, H. Kim, T. Evgeniou

With great power comes great risks.
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Four Ways GenAI Can Give You a Competitive Edge

A. Ovchinnikov, D.Dubois, M. Lobo, H. Kim

How to put generative AI to work for your business.

Strategy

Testing Google’s Claim of Quality

Hyunjin Kim

Research suggests that, by using a tying strategy, dominant platforms may be able to gain traction in new markets with a lower quality product than what is offered.

Strategy

What Yelp Reviews Can Tell Us About the State of the Economy

Hyunjin Kim

Data from online sources like Yelp can help you take the pulse of local business activity in the absence of updated official statistics.