Ji-Yub (Jay) Kim is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD. His research centers on organisational learning and its implications on organisational performance and evolution. His research interests also include mergers and acquisitions, community influences, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, and corporate misbehaviour. He has published in leading academic journals including American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He served on the editorial review boards of leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science.
He teaches a broad spectrum of strategy, innovation and organisation topics including strategy formulation and execution, digital strategy, creative disruption and business model innovation, value innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, platform and ecosystem, and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in designing, directing, and teaching for executive development programmes for corporate clients around the world. His current and past clients include Otsuka, Samsung, Ajinomoto, RGE, Edge Group, Bank Aljazira, MISC, SAP, Nike, Mitsubishi Corporation, Schroders, Mizuho Bank, Central Group, AmBank, HongLeong Bank, Banpu, Takeda, SK Group, Changi Airport Intl, and Hana Financial Group. He is a recipient of multiple INSEAD Executive Education Teaching and Program Direction Awards.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Jay was an assistant professor of Management and Organisation at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he was honoured to receive several teaching awards including Golden Apple Teaching Award for Business Core and Evan C. Thompson Faculty Teaching and Learning Innovation Award. A native of South Korea, Jay received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his PhD in Strategic Management and Organisation Theory from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
