Professor Chae's research interests lie in the area of strategy and organizational theory with a specific focus on social evaluations, market categorization, corporate governance, and social movements. Taking sociocognitive and behavioral perspectives, she examines how organizational stakeholders such as investors, local communities, and consumers influence firms' strategies and their consequences. Using various research methods including computational text analysis, large data utilization, and experiments, she has investigated various phenomena in the hedge fund, international automotive, and restaurant industries, as well as venture startup companies and social movements.
Her research has been published in top management journals and won Best Division Paper at the Academy of Management, the Flamholtz Award for excellent academic progress, and the Rackham Centennial Fellowship Award for excellence in research, among others. Professor Chae also received the Leabo Teaching Award. She was also a recipient of Samsung Scholarship (2010-2016). Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she worked in equity research at Merrill Lynch and Cazenove, and in financial management at Samsung Electronics.
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
M.S. Business Administration, Seoul National University, Korea
B.B.A. Business Adminstration, Seoul National University, Korea
Chae, H., Demetry, D., Nayak, D., & Schifeling, T. 2025. From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form. Academy of Management Journal.
Chae, H., G. Dagnino, P. & Audia. P. 2024. Disadvantaged Communities, Sudden Threats, and the Founding of Social Movement Organizations: The Case of Antimafia Organizations. Journal of Management.
Wu, F., Lakhanpal, S., Li, Q., Lee, K., Kim, D., Chae, H., & Kwon, K. H. 2024. Not All Asians are the Same: A Disaggregated Approach to Identifying Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference: 2615-2626. (Top-tier computer science conference)
Chae, H. 2022. Income or Education? Community-Level Antecedents of Firms' Category-Spanning Activities. Strategic Management Journal. 43(1): 93-129
Chae, H., Song, J., & Lange, D. 2021. Basking in Reflected Glory: Reverse Status Transfer from Foreign to Home Markets. Strategic Management Journal. 42(4): 802-832
Chang, W., Kim, S., & Chae, H. 2020. A regularized spatial market segmentation method with Dirichlet process-Gaussian mixture prior. Spatial Statistics, 35.
Smith, E.B. & Chae, H. (Authors contributed equally). 2017. "The effect of organizational atypicality on reference group selection and performance evaluation." Organization Science, 28(6): 1134-1149.
Smith, E.B. & Chae, H. 2016. "We do what we must, and call it by the best names": Can Deliberate Names Offset the Consequences of Organizational Atypicality? Strategic Management Journal, 37(6): 1021-1033.
2020 Scholarship, Globalizing Organization Theory conference by Administrative Science Quarterly and University of South Carolina
2018 AmorePacific Best Paper Award, Academy of International Business
2014 Flamholtz Award for Research Excellence, Ross School of Business
2013 Rackham Centennial Fellowship Award, University of Michigan
2012 Leabo Award for Teaching Excellence, Ross School of Business
2012 Early Candidacy Grant, Ross School of Business
2010-2016 Graduate Feloowship, Ross School of Business
2010-2015 Samsung Scholarship, Samsung Foundation of Culture
2009 Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management BPS Division
2008-2009 Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Korean Ministry of Education
2007 Summa Cum Laude, Seoul National University
2004-2007 Academic Merit Scholarship, Seoul National University
Editorships
Editorial Review Board:
Organization Science
Ad hoc reviewer:
Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Strategic Organizations, International Marketing Review
Professional Associations
Academy of Management
American Sociological Association
Strategic Management Society
Academy of International Business
Work History
2012 Instructor. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
