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Young Hou is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He teaches core Strategy and Corporate Strategy in the full-time MBA program and Strategy and Analytics in the M.S. in Business Analytics program.
His educational background includes:
- B.A. in Economics and Engineering from Dartmouth College (magna cum laude, high honors)
- M.A. in Statistics from Harvard University
- Ph.D. in Business Administration (Strategy) from Harvard Business School
Dr. Hou's research examines the dynamic interplay between firm positioning and resources in market and nonmarket contexts, with primary focus on CEO activism, nonmarket strategy, and corporate strategy. His methodological approach integrates computationally scalable machine learning for high-dimensional data analysis, experiments, neural networks, and interviews. Recent work featured in CNN investigates how CEO activism influences consumer behavior, political mobilization, and workplace policies.
Analysis of his 2022-2025 publications reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) CEO activism's impact on partisan consumer behavior and political responses, (2) novel applications of smartphone location data in competitive strategy research, and (3) cultural and resource-based factors in inventory management and industry competition. His work consistently bridges theoretical strategy frameworks with real-world business implications.
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