{"id":29911,"date":"2022-03-04T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29911"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:32:52","slug":"professor-profiles-youngme-moon-harvard-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-youngme-moon-harvard-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Youngme-Moon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7579 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Youngme-Moon2.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"170\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Youngme-Moon2.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Youngme-Moon2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/faculty\/Pages\/profile.aspx?facId=6589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Youngme Moon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>from Harvard Business School (HBS).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to receiving the HBS Student Association Faculty Award seven times,\u00a0<strong>Youngme Moon<\/strong>\u00a0was also the inaugural recipient of the Hellman Faculty Fellowship in 2002\u20132003 for distinction in research. Moon is currently the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration and has served as the senior associate dean for strategy and innovation and as the senior associate dean for the MBA program at the school. Her work has been published in the\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Journal of Consumer Research<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Journal of Consumer Psychology<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Journal of Experimental Psychology<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Journal of Applied Social Psychology<\/em>. Students described Moon to mbaMission as being extremely friendly and accessible, even going out for casual dinners with students.<\/p>\n<p>Moon\u2019s bestselling 2010 book,\u00a0<em>Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd<\/em>\u00a0(Crown Business), is described by the publisher as showing \u201chow to succeed in a world where conformity reigns\u2026 but exceptions rule.\u201d Moon co-hosts a weekly podcast, After Hours, which is presented by the\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>. The podcast features Moon and two other HBS professors discussing \u201cnews at the crossroads of business and culture,\u201d according to the podcast\u2019s description on the Harvard Business Review website.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about HBS and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,40],"tags":[233,181],"class_list":["post-29911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard-hbs","category-professor-profiles","tag-harvard-business-school","tag-professors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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