Prof. Zhao Hao is a Professor of Management at CEIBS. Prior to joining CEIBS, he was a tenured faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Prof. Zhao earned his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Renmin University of China.

Prof. Zhao’s primary research interests focus on factors that encourage people to become entrepreneurs and succeed, such as self-efficacy, personality, age, team dynamics, and entrepreneurship education. His secondary interests include leadership styles, recruitment and selection, and ethics. He also studies how artificial intelligence influences workplace and employee behavior. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. His publications have received more than 20,000 citations on Google Scholar. He is an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher and a Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist. He is a Field Editor of the Journal of Business Venturing, and a former Co-Editor of Human Relations.

Prof. Zhao authored the book Reluctant Leaders, and he writes for many magazines and newspapers, such as Harvard Business Review (Chinese ed.), 21st Century Business Review, National Business Daily, and The Paper.  

Prof. Zhao has taught various courses in the US and China, including Organizational Behavior, Talent Management, Leadership, Technological Entrepreneurship, Managerial Communication, Organizational Design and Change, and Ageing and Well-being. His classes often involve innovative modules, such as business news, group games, debates, historical cases, movies, and role-playing exercises. He trained top management teams from Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, AbbVie, AB Inbev, Burberry, Carl Zeiss, Valeo, Cytiva, Bank of China, Kweichow Moutai, and Jones Lang LaSalle, etc.