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 investigates how firms, particularly those in nascent industries emerging from technological innovations, adopt novel political strategies to influence regulation. Another line examines how firms, especially multinational corporations, navigate the challenges posed by deglobalization and the rise of nationalism. She has developed a theory of corporate rhetorical nationalism and utilized large language models to construct computational measures of nationalism at the firm level (see here for the paper, code, and data).

Professor Yue’s research has been featured in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals and has earned 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 work has also been cited in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, CNBC, Forbes, and Yahoo! Finance. She previously served as an associate editor of Management Science, a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, and Chair of the Organizational Management and Theory Research Committee at AOM.

Professor Yue has taught at the PhD, MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, and undergraduate levels. In the CBS MBA and EMBA programs, she teaches Top Management Process, a popular elective that explores the multifaceted role of general managers in shaping strategy, operations, and organizational leadership in both entrepreneurial and established firms. In fall 2025, she will teach Global Enterprise Management, a course designed to equip students with the core principles and practices necessary for managing global enterprises in an increasingly complex international business landscape, addressing challenges such as geopolitical tensions and trade policies. Within CBS Executive Education, she leads the Corporate Sociopolitical Strategy module, which examines how corporations leverage nonmarket strategies—such as lobbying, campaign contributions, public mobilization, philanthropic initiatives, and sociopolitical activism—to navigate regulatory uncertainties and contentious social environments.

Before joining CBS, Professor Yue was a faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where she taught the undergraduate core course Strategic Management, served as course head, and spearheaded its redesign. She also taught short MBA courses and the PhD seminar in Organizational Theory, earning both teaching and research awards for her contributions.