Kylie Jiwon Hwang
Drake Scholar
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
Kylie Hwang is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. Her research examines how businesses can alleviate the systemic inequality that marginalized populations face in the labor market and in society at large. In particular, can entrepreneurship be a pathway for marginalized groups to overcome labor market discrimination and achieve economic and social integration? What are the barriers and setbacks of entrepreneurial engagement for marginalized group members? Much of her current work focuses on marginalized groups such as justice-impacted individuals, racial minorities, and people with disabilities in the United States. Her research primarily adopts a quantitative method approach using restricted administrative and survey data, and incorporates qualitative in-depth interviews and experiments.
Professor Hwang’s research has been published in leading journals such as American Journal of Sociology, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Research in Organizational Behavior. Her work has also been featured in a testimony to the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and popular press outlets such as the Washington Post, Forbes, CitySCOPE Podcast, and Columbia Business School Ideas at Work.
Professor Hwang earned her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School, and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics, summa cum laude, from Seoul National University. Prior to joining Kellogg, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Leading the Strategic Change Process (MORS-452-0)
This course focuses on key tasks in leading the strategic change process in organizations. These leadership tasks include creating a shared urgent need for change, creating a shared understanding of the reality of change issues, creating a change vision, promoting the belief that change is possible and leading the change transition process. Topics include creating and changing corporate culture, managing growth and decline, corporate restructuring, creating innovation and entrepreneurship, and leading the transition from an entrepreneurial start-up organization to an organization that can manage scale and scope and sustain competitive advantage.
As part of this course, some faculty include a required all-day simulation project, often held on a Saturday; please see the syllabus or contact the professor for the course section.
