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. She particularly focuses on entrepreneurship as a pathway for marginalized groups to overcome labor market discrimination and achieve economic and social mobility. Much of her current work focuses on justice impacted individuals in the United States, and she examines the implications of entrepreneurship for this population in terms of entrepreneurial barriers and outcomes such as income, economic mobility, and recidivism. Her research primarily uses quantitative methods with restricted administrative and survey data and incorporates qualitative in-depth interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated people in the Arizona State Prison Complex, Phoenix, San Francisco, and New York City.
Hwang’s research has been published in American Journal of Sociology and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 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.
Hwang holds a PhD in Management from Columbia Business School, and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics from Seoul National University. Prior to joining Kellogg, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow 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.
