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Yeonsin AHN

Assistant Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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Biography

Yeonsin Ahn is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Department at HEC Paris. She earned her PhD in Entrepreneurship from INSEAD. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, culture and diversity, and computational social science. Her dissertation was recognized by the Academy of Management’s OMT Division—with the Best Paper Award and Runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award—and by the Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, where it received the Best PhD Conference Paper Prize and was named a finalist for the Best Research Methods Paper Prize. Her work has been published in Organization Science and the Journal of Organizational Design.

Scientific articles

Cultural Spawning: Founders Bringing Organizational Cultures to Their Startup

Organization Science, January-February 2025, vol. 36, n° 1, pp 411-428, (in coll. with H. GREVE)

The impact of governance practices on firm outcomes: a machine-learning exploration

Journal of Organization Design, June 2024, vol. 13, pp 45-64, (in coll. with A. SHIPILOV, H. GREVE, T. ROWLEY)

Proceedings

Agreeing to Be Different: Startup Founding Teams, Cultural Legacy, and Atypicality

2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings , 2022 , 2022 , 1

When is Organizational Culture More Replicable?

2021 Academy of Management Conference , 2021 , 2021 , 1

Organizational Learning of Cultures: The Spawned Culture Effects in the U.S. IT Industry

2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2020 , 2020 , 1

Scientific articles

Cultural Spawning: Founders Bringing Organizational Cultures to Their Startup

Organization Science, January-February 2025, vol. 36, n° 1, pp 411-428, (in coll. with H. GREVE)

The impact of governance practices on firm outcomes: a machine-learning exploration

Journal of Organization Design, June 2024, vol. 13, pp 45-64, (in coll. with A. SHIPILOV, H. GREVE, T. ROWLEY)

Proceedings

Agreeing to Be Different: Startup Founding Teams, Cultural Legacy, and Atypicality

2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings , 2022 , 2022 , 1

When is Organizational Culture More Replicable?

2021 Academy of Management Conference , 2021 , 2021 , 1

Organizational Learning of Cultures: The Spawned Culture Effects in the U.S. IT Industry

2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2020 , 2020 , 1

Education

  • Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship, INSEAD - Singapore

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2022- Assistant Professor HEC Paris
  • 2022- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris, GREGHEC HEC Paris