CEIBS would not be the acclaimed institution that it is today without its exceptional team of international faculty. Prof. Zhao Hao is a Professor of Management at CEIBS. Prior to joining CEIBS, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Prof. Zhao was awarded a PhD degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago and obtained his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Renmin University of China.

Prof. Zhao’s primary research interest focuses on factors that encourage people to become entrepreneurs and succeed, such as self-efficacy, personality, age, team dynamics, and entrepreneurship education. His secondary interests are leadership styles, recruitment and selection, and ethics. He also studies how artificial intelligence influences workplace and people's work behaviors. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Management, and he has trained top management teams from Nestle, AbbVie, Carl Zeiss, Bank of China, Kweichow Moutai, and Jones Lang LaSalle, and more. His classes often involve innovative modules, such as news, games, debates, historical stories, movies, and role plays. 

Learn more about Prof. Zhao and the rest of our distinguished faculty here: https://www.ceibs.edu/zhao_hao