Xiaohua Yang，Ph.D.
Professor of International Business
Director, China Business Studies Initiative
Department of Economics, Business Law and International Business
School of Management
Professor Xiaohua Yang teaches International Business and is the founding director of China Business Studies Initiative in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She specializes in internationalization of Chinese firms, international R&D strategic alliances, and foreign market entry strategies. She has taught and lectured in the USA, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Europe. She regularly teaches MBA and EMBA students and supervises doctoral students. Dr. Yang is a recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from prestigious international conferences, the outstanding research award and the outstanding service award from the USF School of Management as well as the prestigious China Natural Science Foundation grant. Widely published in international journals, she is the Senior editor of the Journal of Asia Business studies, guest editor of several top journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Business Ethics Quarterly, among other editorial credentials.
Dr. Yang has served on numerous boards and has consulted companies and government agencies in a number of countries, including US, China, Australia, Finland, and Armenia. She has designed and delivered training courses for Chinese companies. Recently, she has been appointed as the vice president of Silicon Valley Women Federation. She is a fellow of Tim Fischer Center for Global Trade and Finance at Bond University, Australia, a 2012 Academy for Global Business Advancement Distinguished Fellow, and an honorary professor of Center for Business Ethics at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China.
Professor Yang’s work on globalization of Chinese business has not only attracted attention from the academia, but also from the media. She has been interviewed by CBS, San Francisco Business Times, Daily Economic News, Wenzhou Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Chinese Biz News and Armenia National TV.
She and her team successfully launched CBSI and organized the inaugural CBSI international conference as well as many topical forums. As a result of her effort and that of her team’s, CBSI has become an integral part of San Francisco/Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem.
She is frequently invited to speak at international conferences, forums and symposia. She was a keynote/panel speaker at HYSTA annual conference, Berkeley China Forum, Wenzhou Pareto Public Policy Colloquium, Delegation from Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and Harvard conferences on China Goes Global.
Dr. Yang earned her PhD in International Business/Strategic Management from the University of Kansas, her MBA from Iowa State University, and her BA from Shanghai University of International Studies.