Professor Young Hou

Young Hou is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at Darden, where he teaches core Strategy and Corporate Strategy in the full-time MBA program and Strategy and Analytics in the M.S. in Business Analytics program.

His research interests include nonmarket strategy, CEO activism, self-regulation, and corporate strategy. In particular, he focuses on the dynamic interplay between firm positioning and firm resources in market and nonmarket settings. His work employs computationally scalable machine learning techniques to analyze high-dimensional data, experiments, neural networks, and interviews. He and his work have been featured in popular media outlets such as CNN.