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Han, Jian
Associate Professor of Management;
Co-Director, CEIBS Centre on China Innovation
Co-Director of CEIBS Centre on Digital Economy and Smart Enterprises
Dr. Jian Han is Associate Professor of Management of CEIBS. She received her Ph.D. with concentrations on Human Resources Management and Social Statistics (minor) from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Dr. Han specialises in strategic human resource management and organisational transformation. Her research in HRM and organisational behaviour has been published extensively in scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Research Methods, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Management World (Chinese), Journal of Management Sciences(Chinese), Harvard Business Review China (HBRC), Tsinghua Business Review, and CEIBS Business Review. She also contributes book chapters in organisational change, compensation and benefits, employee recruitment, workforce diversity management and innovation, and cross-cultural management. Dr. Han has presented more than 30 papers at leading international management conferences. Her work has been cited by CNN, Financial Times, Fortune, China Daily, CCTV, and China Business Review. Dr. Han is currently the academic director of the CEIBS Chief HR Officer Programme (CHO).
Dr. Han has also received several teaching and case-writing awards, such as the 2018 Teaching Innovation Award from the Human Resources Division, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference, the 2018 CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award, the First-prize Winner of the 2011 National Case Competition on Case-based Teaching in Business Administration and Theory-building, China, the 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Award, and Nominated Case Award for 2018 Global Contest for the Best China-Focused Cases.
In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Han has been actively involving in professional service. Since 2018, she has served in the editorial board of the Journal of Vocation Behaviour. She has also been an active contributor to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Since 2012, she has served on various WEF’s global expert councils. In 2017, Dr. Han was ranked among the list of 30 global “thought leaders that most likely to shape future business model” by Thinkers 50 Radar. She also received the CEIBS Service Excellent Award for Faculty Members in 2018.
- Ph.D. School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University, USA
- M.S., School of Inudstrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University, USA
- M.S., Park School of Communication, Ithaca College, USA
- B.S., Renmin University of China
- Strategic human resource management
- Team effectiveness
- Career development of managerial talent
- Nominated Case Award, 2018 Global Contest for the Best China-Focused Cases
- Best Teaching Innovation Award, HR Division, Academy of Management, 2018
- CEIBS Teaching Excellent Award, 2018
- CEIBS Faculty Service Award, 2018
- Radar list of “Global Thinker 50 of next generation business management", 2017
- CEIBS-Joyoung Research Fund, “Organisational design and performance in firms that promote intrapreneurs and innovation" (in coll. with Prof. Huang Y and Frank Yu), 2016
- Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (in coll. with Han, J. H., Liao, H., and Kim, S.), 2013
- Winner of the Best International Paper Award of Career Division, Academy of Management Annual Conference (in coll. with Neng Liang and Lan Wang), 2012
- Winner of the EFMD Case Competition in the category Emerging Chinese Global Competitors (2,000 Euros prize) for the case “A Dispute over a Pay Rise in Company F” (in coll. with Fu, Xin), 2012
- First-prize Winner of Best Case Award, National Case Competition on Case-based Teaching in Business Administration and Theory-building, China (in coll. with Fu, Xin), 2011
- First-Prize Winner of IACMR Best Dissertation Proposal Award (in coll. with Chen, Xiao, mentor of Ph.D dissertation), 2010
- Semi-Finalist, Divisional Best Paper Award, Gender and Diversion Division, Academy of Management Annual Conference (in coll. with Jing Han), 2009
- Chinese National Science Foundation. “The relationship between diversity management and innovation”. 70602007, 2007-2009
- Finalist, Divisional Best Student Paper, Human Resource Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Conference (in coll. with Chris Collins), 2002