Pai Ling Yin

Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship and Director, Technology Commercialization Initiative at USC Marshall School of Business

USC Marshall School of Business

PhD, Stanford; MSc, London School of Economics; BA, BS, Indiana University

Pai-Ling Yin is an Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship and Director of the Technology Commercialization Initiative. She co-founded the Mobile Innovation Group (http://mig.stanford.edu) to research the mobile app ecosystem, from industry evolution to platform competition to entrepreneurial strategy. Pai-Ling received her economics PhD from Stanford. She was a professor of strategy at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan and a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She has written numerous cases on technology and strategy and research papers on platform competition and innovation diffusion. She co-owns a small business, FitLAB Pilates, in Cambridge, MA.

Companies

  • Senior Manager, Research Science Amazon (2021)
  • Director of Technology Commercialization Initiative USC Marshall School of Business (2016 — 2021)
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship USC Marshall School of Business (2016 — 2021)
  • Research Scholar Stanford University (2013 — 2016)
  • Assistant Professor MIT Sloan School of Management (2007 — 2013)
  • Assistant Professor Harvard Business School (2003 — 2007)
  • Resident Scholar Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation (1995 — 1996)

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Stanford University (1997 — 2003)
  • Master of Science (MSc) London School of Economics and Political Science (1996 — 1997)
  • Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Arts (BA) Indiana University Bloomington (1991 — 1994)

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