Shinjae Won
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
School of Labor and Employment Relations

- shinjae@illinois.edu
- (217) 300-4506
- (217) 244-9290
237 LER Building, 504 E. Armory Ave. Champaign, IL 61820
Education & Experience
PhD, Management, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
AB, Economics, Princeton University
Research Interests
Human capital, Strategic human resource management, Executive search, Careers
Professor Won explores how the market values different attributes of workers and the role of market intermediaries in shaping firm and worker decisions and outcomes.
Publications
Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, Roxana Barbulescu and Ethan Mollick (In Press), “I Used to Work at Goldman Sachs! How Organizational Status Creates Rents in the Market for Human Capital.” Strategic Management Journal
Peter Cappelli and Shinjae Won (2012), “Soft Skills,” for SAGE Sociology of Work Encyclopedia, Vicki Smith and J. Geoffrey Golson (eds.)
Courses
LER 565 HR Management and Strategy
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