Mendoza School of Business

Joonhyuk Yang

Assistant Professor
Marketing
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  • Biography
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Joonhyuk Yang joined the marketing faculty at Mendoza after receiving his PhD in Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management and serving as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on unlocking value from data to grow markets responsibly, specifically examining how information firms generate can be transformed into reliable and responsible decisions. By developing predictive and causal designs that translate into operational deployment, Prof. Yang addresses managerial and policy questions surrounding financial inclusion, digital platforms, and AI governance. His work has been published in leading journals such as Marketing Science, Management Science, and Journal of Marketing Research. In the classroom, Prof. Yang teaches analytics-based pricing strategy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Education
Ph D, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Ph D, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
BS, Pohang University of Science and Technology

"Who Benefits from Alternative Data for Credit Scoring? Evidence from Peru", (With Jung Youn Lee, Eric Anderson), Journal of Marketing Research, 63, 2026

"Using Grocery Data for Credit Decisions", (With Jung Youn Lee, Eric Anderson), Management Science, 71, 2025

"Properties of Alternative Data for Fairer Credit Risk Predictions", (With Jung Youn Lee), Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR), 2024

"Advertising as Information for Ranking E-Commerce Search Listings", (With Navdeep Sahni, Harikesh Nair, Xi Xiong), Marketing Science, 43, 2024

"High-Energy Ad Content: A Large-Scale Investigation of TV Commercials", (With Yingkang Xie, Lakshman Krishnamurthi, Purushottam Papatla), Journal of Marketing Research, 59, 2022

"Commercial Success through Commercials? Advertising and Pay-TV Operators", (With Jung Youn Lee, Pradeep Chintagunta), Journal of Marketing Research, 58, 2021

"Digitization and Flexibility: Evidence from the South Korean Movie Market", (With Eric Anderson, Brett Gordon), Marketing Science, 40, 2021