Lynn Wu

Lynn Wu is an assistant professor at the Wharton School. She is interested in studying how information and information technology impact the productivity of information workers, organization and broad sectors of economy. Specifically, her work follows three streams. In the first stream, she studies how social networks and information derived from social networks affect individuals’ performance and longterm career trajectories. In her second stream of research, she examines the role of investment in IT and complementary organizational practices to explain how firms can achieve greater business value from IT. In her third stream, Lynn leverages finegrained nanodata available through online digital traces to predict economic indicators such as real estate trends, labor trends and product adoption.

Lynn has published articles in economics, management and computer science. Her work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and The Economist

Lynn received her undergraduate degrees from MIT (Finance and Computer Science), her master’s degree from MIT (Computer Science) and her Ph.D. from MIT Sloan School of Management (Management Science)

Research Interests: Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Social Media, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Productivity

Awards and Honors

• Kauffman Best Paper Award, 2019
• Best Student Paper Runner up at CHITA, 2019
• The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award, 2019 Description
• AIS Early Career Award, 2018 Description
• AIS Best Publication, 2014 Description
• ISR Best Published Paper, 2014 Description
• Best Paper Award at HICSS, 2013
• Best Paper Award at ICIS, 2009