Hyunjin Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Her research explores how the increased availability of information in the digital economy shapes firm strategy and the nature of market competition. In her research, she has collaborated closely with Fortune 100 companies as well as small tech startups. Her work has been written about in a variety of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TIME, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and Vox.
Hyunjin earned her A.B. in Social Studies at Harvard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. She also received a M.Sc in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford and a M.Sc in Economics and Management at the London School of Economics. Prior to her graduate studies, Hyunjin co-founded and directed the Emerge Venture Lab, an early-stage venture capital fund for technology startups working on social and environmental issues. She has also worked at McKinsey & Company and Knewton.
- Journal Articles
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- Donaker, Geoff, Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Designing Better Online Review Systems." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 122–129. View Details
- Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Management Science 65, no. 2 (February 2019): 596–603. View Details
- Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 77–82. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-022, September 2017. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Luca, Michael, Scott Stern, Devin Cook, and Hyunjin Kim. "Racial Discrimination on Airbnb (A)." Harvard Business School Case 920-051, March 2020. (Revised August 2022.) View Details
- Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Hyunjin Kim, and Forest Reinhardt. "Patagonia (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 711-081, March 2011. View Details
- Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Hyunjin Kim, and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Patagonia." Harvard Business School Case 711-020, August 2010. (Revised October 2010.) View Details
- Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Hyunjin Kim. "Coursera." Harvard Business School Case 714-412, August 2013. (Revised September 2015.) View Details
- Luca, Michael, Weijia Dai, and Hyunjin Kim. "Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 916-039, March 2016. (Revised February 2023.) View Details
- Luca, Michael, Weijia Dai, and Hyunjin Kim. "Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades." Harvard Business School Exercise 916-038, March 2016. (Revised February 2023.) View Details
- Dai, Weijia, Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 916-702, March 2016. View Details
- Other Publications and Materials
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- Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Using Traditional and Digital Data Sources Together in Economic Research." Vox, CEPR Policy Portal (January 17, 2018). View Details
- Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 16, 2018). View Details
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