Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang is an American professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India.
Early life and education
Huang was born in Beijing, China. He moved to the United States to pursue his higher education.Graduated from Harvard University, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Government in 1985, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in Government in 1991. His doctoral dissertation was titled The politics of inflation control in China: Provincial responses to central investment policies, 1977–1989.
Career
While he was preparing for his PhD, he worked as a World Bank consultant and associate professor at the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989. In 1997, he joined Harvard Business School as the Associate Professor in business, government and international economics.He is currently the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. At MIT, he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India.
Huang is a member of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy, convened by the Asia Society'’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. In March 2025, he joined the Center for China Analysis at Asia Society as a non-resident honorary senior fellow, focusing on the Chinese economy and technology..