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’s Lally School of Management. Prof. Zhao was awarded a Ph.D. 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 in 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. He is an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher and has won the Emerald Citations of Excellence Award three times for High Impact Papers.

Prof. Zhao has taught various courses in the US and China, including Organisational Behaviour, Talent Management, and Organisational Design and Change. He trained executives for Nestle, AbbVie, Bank of China, and Jones Lang LaSalle, etc. His classes often involve innovative modules, such as news, games, debates, historical stories, movies, and role plays. He writes for many magazines and newspapers, such as Harvard Business Review (Chinese ed.), 21 Century Management Review, National Business Daily, and The Paper. 

Prof. Zhao is currently a co-editor of the Human Relations, and a field editor of the Journal of Business Venturing. Both journals are among those Financial Times uses to rank the research productivities of business schools worldwide. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple other journals and reviews for research grant agencies overseas.