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Education
Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2023
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Entrepreneurship: The Role of Complexity of Innovation and Efficient Hierarchies"
Dissertation Committee: Serguey Braguinsky (Chair), Rajshree Agarwal (Co-chair), Brent Goldfarb, Evan Starr, & Martin Ganco
M.S. Finance, University of Maryland, 2015
B.A. Business Administration, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 2014
B.S. Finance, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2014
Fields of Specialization
Economics of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Human Capital, Technological Change
Publications
Ding, Yuheng, Thomas Astebro, and Serguey Braguinsky. 2023. Declining Science-Based Startups: Strategic Human Capital and the Value of Working in Startups vs. Established Firms. Forthcoming at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Working Papers
Ding, Yuheng. Complex Innovation and the "Visible Hand": the Role of Knowledge Interdependence in Employee Entrepreneurship. 2022. Ed Snider Center Working Paper No.5. [Link]
Best Paper Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Finalist of the William H. Newman Award of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Finalist of the TIM Best Student Paper Award of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Finalist of the 42nd SMS Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize, 2022
Braguinsky, Serguey, Joonkyu Choi, Yuheng Ding, Karam Jo, and Seula Kim. 2023. Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data. NBER Working Paper No. 31460. [Link]
Ding, Yuheng. The Burdens of Technology Adoption on Entrepreneurship: How does the Adoption of EHRs Impact Physician Self-employment in the U.S. Healthcare Sector?
Preparing for disclosure clearance by the U.S. Census Bureau
Ding, Yuheng, Karam Jo, and Seula Kim. Improving Patent Assignee-Firm Bridge with Web Search Results. Working Papers 22-31, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, 2022. [Link]
Works in Progress
”Management and Organizational Practices, Business Dynamism, Employee Sorting, and Entrepreneurship” with Rajshree Agarwal, Serguey Braguinsky, Seth Carnahan, Joonkyu Choi, Martin Ganco, John Haltiwanger, Florence Honore, Seula Kim, and Evan Starr, (Data analysis stage with U.S. Census data)
"How costly is green product innovation? Evidence from a structural estimation" with Zhimin Chen and Shirley Tang (Data collection stage)
Research and Relevant Work Experience
Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDC) Researcher, U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 - Present
Research Assistant, Prof. Rachelle Sampson, University of Maryland, 2016 - 2017
Research Assistant, Prof. Yi Xu, University of Maryland, 2015
Invited Presentations
Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting (2023)
NBER Mega Firms and the Economy Conference (2023)
Ed Snider Center Research Conversation, University of Maryland (2023)
The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (2022)
Strategic Management Society 42nd Annual Conference (2022)
Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC), Doctoral Conference (2022)
Federal Statistical Research Data Center Annual Research Conference (2022)
Doctoral Consortium on Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference (2021)
Technology and Declining Economic Dynamism Conference (2020)
Refereeing
Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Small Business Economics, World Development, Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Strategic Management (Upper-level Undergraduate), University of Maryland, Summer and Fall, 2020-2021
Teaching Assistant, Entrepreneurial Capitalism Around the World (Upper-level Undergraduate), University of Maryland, Fall, 2021-2022
Teaching Assistant, Business Consulting: Technology Entrepreneurship (MBA), University of Maryland, Fall, 2019-2020
Teaching Assistant, Financial Econometrics (Master of Finance), University of Maryland, Fall, 2015-2016
Grants and Awards
Finalist of the William H. Newman Award of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2023
Finalist of the TIM Best Student Paper Award of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2023
Best Paper Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2023
Nancy S. and Edward F. Ebert Graduate Award in Free Enterprise, 2023
Finalist of the 42nd SMS Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize, 2022
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland, 2022
International Conference Student Support Award, University of Maryland, 2022
Graduate Assistantship, Management and Organization Department, University of Maryland, 2017 - Present
University of Maryland Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2017 - Present
Tianjin University Outstanding Graduate Honor, 2014
Honorable Mention in COMAP Mathematics Contest in Modeling, 2013
References
Serguey Braguinsky
Professor
R.H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland, College Park
sbrag@umd.edu
(301)-405-9712
Rajshree Agarwal
Rudolph Lamone Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy
R.H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland, College Park
rajshree@umd.edu
(301)-405-2250
Brent Goldfarb
Dean’s Professor of Entrepreneurship
R.H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland, College Park
brentg@umd.edu
(301)-405-9672
Evan Starr
Associate Professor
R.H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland, College Park
estarr@umd.edu
(301)-405-1054