Olivia S. Kim

Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Kim's research examines how firms and households make financial decisions, with a focus on the role of the family. Her work evaluates how financial regulations shape credit and consumption disparities within the household and the extent to which business owners' family life events drive firm growth and investment. She also studies topics in financial intermediation and federal programs targeting small business growth.

Professor Kim earned a PhD in Financial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Economics from Smith College. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Economics of an Aging Workforce at the National Bureau of Economic Research before joining HBS. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked at MIT Blueprint Labs and in Global Capital Markets at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is an academic fellow at the JPMorgan Chase Institute.