Lori Yue

Lori Qingyuan Yue is Associate Professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on the interplay among business, society, and government, particularly in how firms respond to contentious social environments and regulatory uncertainty. She has published papers on industry self-regulation, corporate political strategies, corporate responses to social movements, and corporate sociopolitical activism. 

One line of her recent research explores how firms, especially nascent industries emerging from technological innovations, adopt novel political strategies to shape regulation. Another line examines how firms, particularly multinational corporations, navigate the context of deglobalization and the rise of nationalism. One of her recent papers develops a computational measure of rhetorical nationalism at the firm level.

Her research has been featured in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals and has garnered numerous awards and recognitions from the Academy of Management (AOM), Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), the Academy of International Business (AIB), INFORMS, and the Law and Society Association. Her research has also been cited in the popular press, including in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the CNBC. She was formerly an associate editor of Management Science, a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, and the Chair of the Organizational Management and Theory Research Committee of the Academy of Management.

She teaches Top Management Process, a popular MBA and EMBA elective course about the role of general managers in the organization, strategy, and operation of both entrepreneurial and established firms. In the CBS Executive Education, she teaches the Corporate Sociopolitical Strategy module. She previously served as a faculty member of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. There, she taught the undergraduate core course, Strategic Management, served as the course head, and led the course redesign. She also taught other short MBA courses and the PhD seminar of Organizational Theory, and won both teaching and research awards.