H. Dharma Kwon

H. Dharma Kwon is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Robert and Karen May Faculty Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Management and Operations Research from UCLA Anderson School of Management (2008) and a B.S. in Physics from KAIST (1991). His research focuses on strategic decision making under uncertainty, stochastic dynamic games, and technology management. He explores topics such as free-rider problems, Bayesian sequential decisions, and real options, with applications in supply chain management, project contracts, and employee retention strategies.

His work bridges theoretical rigor and practical business challenges, addressing issues like optimal pricing strategies, investment decisions under spillovers, and cooperative game theory. He has published extensively in journals like Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Management Science. His research also extends to early-career physics, with studies on superconductors and quantum phase transitions.

Awarded the Robert and Karen May Faculty Fellowship (2018–present), Kwon is recognized for his teaching excellence, receiving the Excellent Teacher award multiple times (2014–2018, 2019–2020, 2023–2023). He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and Decision Analysis. His courses include Operations Management (BADM 275) and Decision Analytics (BADM 573), emphasizing data-driven decision frameworks and probabilistic methods.