Pai Ling Yin

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)