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Daniel Keum

Associate Professor of Business
Management Division
Columbia Business School
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Finance, Labor Markets, Strategy
Contact
Office: 1184 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Daniel (Dongil) Keum is an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. His research interests lie in innovation, organizational structure, labor market policy, and their application to public policy formation. He holds a PhD from NYU Stern School of Business and an AB with high honors in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Daniel worked at McKinsey & Company for four years. His primary industry experience is in retail, fashion, and corporate portfolio restructuring. 

Education
AB, Dartmouth College; PhD, NYU-Stern
Joined CBS
2017

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Keum, Daniel and Stephan Meier
. “License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs.”
Organization Science
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Keum, Daniel
. “Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention .”
Organization Science
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Keum, Daniel
. “Managerial political power and the reallocation of resources in the internal capital market.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
44
, no.
2
(June 29, 2023):
369
-
414
.
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Journal Article
Keum, Daniel
. “Penalizing the Underdogs? Employment Protection and the Competitive Dynamics of Firm Innovation.”
Organization Science
vol.
31
, (January 01, 2020):
1072
-
1089
.
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Journal Article
Keum, Daniel and J. P. Eggers
. “Setting the Bar: The Evaluative and Allocative Roles of Organizational Aspirations.”
Organization Science
vol.
29
, (January 01, 2018):
989
-
1236
.
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Journal Article
Keum, Daniel and Kelly See
. “The Influence of Hierarchy on Innovation and Idea Selection in the Innovation Process.”
Organization Science
vol.
28
, (July 01, 2017):
653
-
669
.
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Working Paper
Meier, Stephan and Daniel Keum
. License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and Moral Cost of Layoffs. July 01, 2020.
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Working Paper
Keum, Daniel
. Is Weak Governance Always Bad? Governance and Competition Dynamics of Risk Aversion. January 01, 2018.
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Working Paper
Keum, Daniel and Beth Bechky
. Folding and Unfolding: Structural Oscillation in Problem-solving Workgroups. January 01, 2018.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Keum, Daniel
. “Cog in the Wheel: Resources Release and the Scope of Interdependencies in Adjustment Routines.”
Strategic Management Journal
. Forthcoming.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Course
B5502: Strategy Formulation
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Course
B9514: (PHD) Strategy
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Course
B6502: Strategy Formulation
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  • Awards & Honors
2024

Commitment to Excellence Awards

with Daniel Keum

Nibh Lorem Egestas Euismod

with Daniel Keum and Anne-Carine Frederique

  • In the Media
  • Articles
In the Media

Intel Made a Mistake Decades Ago. Now Its New CEO Has to Fix It.

Wall Street Journal
In the Media

Apple Joins Slew of Companies Touting More U.S. Jobs. How Much Is New?

Wall Street Journal
In the Media

Ex-Employees Say Tom Krause, Tapped by Musk to Overhaul Treasury, Was a 'Hatchet Man'

ABC News
In the Media

TikTok Is Online Again, but Your Favorite TikTokers Have Been Preparing for an Uncertain Future

MarketWatch
In the Media

What Is (Or Was) ‘Perks Culture’?

The New York Times
In the Media

TikTok Vows to Take U.S. Ban Case to Supreme Court. Meta and Google Could See User Gains in Meantime

Morningstar
In the Media

Social Studies: Partisanship on the Courts; How COVID Helped Incumbents; Local Pubs Keep Populism in Check

The Boston Globe
In the Media

AI May Take Away Jobs – but It’s Creating Some, Too

The Christian Science Monitor
In the Media

The ‘Senior’ Jobs That Require Little or No Experience

The Wall Street Journal
In the Media

AI Will Change Work, for Better and Worse

Yahoo! Finance
In the Media

AI Will Change Work, for Better and Worse

Yahoo! Finance
In the Media

Why Tech Companies Are Laying off Thousands of Workers

The Hill
In the Media

Remote Workers and Middle Managers Are Most Likely to Get Let Go during Layoff Season, Experts Say

Insider
In the Media

Who Is Most Likely to Get Fired? Remote Workers, Middle Managers

Bloomberg
In the Media

The Stark Realities of Posting Your Layoff on TikTok

Wired
In the Media

Big Tech Layoffs Are Back. Are Other Workers at Risk?

ABC News
In the Media

Tech Layoffs Continue after 'Year of Efficiency'

Reuters
In the Media

No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren’t Happening Again

Wired
In the Media

How Wedding Giant the Knot Pulled the Veil over Advertisers’ Eyes

Forbes
In the Media

How artificial intelligence could fundamentally change certain types of work

CBS News
In the Media

Silicon Valley is starting to kill some of its famously lavish perks

Yahoo! Finance
In the Media

Explaining the Business Behind Big Layoffs

Cheddar News
In the Media

Why has the tech industry had massive layoffs?

Scripps News
In the Media

Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professors of 2022

Poets and Quants
Article

Layoffs Paradox: How a Stronger Social Safety Net Could Actually Benefit Businesses

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Article

Myopic Management: Relentless Pressure to Perform on the Stock Market Stifles Innovation

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