Faculty & Research

Yasheng Huang

International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business
Professor of Global Economics and Management

Biography | Publications

Professor Yasheng Huang teaches political economy and international management at MIT Sloan School of Management. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. He was also a consultant to the World Bank.

His recent academic papers can be downloaded on SSRN. In addition to academic journal articles, Professor Huang has published Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003), Financial Reform in China (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld), and Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008).

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics is a detailed narrative account of history of economic reforms in China. It is based on detailed archival and quantitative evidence spanning three decades of reforms, this book shows that private entrepreneurship, facilitated by financial liberalization and microeconomic flexibility, played a central role in China's economic miracle. See the reviews of the book at bloomberg.com and economist.com.

In collaborations with other scholars, Professor Huang is conducting research on human capital formation in China and India, on entrepreneurship, ethnic and labor-intensive FDI. His research has been profiled in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Businessworld, Le Monde, Economic Times, as well as in numerous Chinese publications. He has also contributed to Financial Times, New York Times, and Foreign Policy.

At MIT Sloan, Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which aim at helping entrepreneurs in China and India improve their management. He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of MIT Entrepreneurship Center, a fellow at Center for Chinese Economic Research and Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a fellow at William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, and a World Economic Forum Fellow.

Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/yshuang/www/index.html