Shinjae Won

Education & Experience

PhD, Management, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
AB, Economics, Princeton University

Research Interests

Professor Won studies human capital, strategic human resource management, employee mobility and labor markets. In her research, she examines how firms acquire, retain and reallocate human capital and what enables individuals to make desirable moves within and across organizations in various contexts including executive labor market and knowledge-intensive organizations such as R&D divisions in pharmaceutical firms and entrepreneurial teams in Artificial Intelligence.

Publications

• Shinjinee Chattopadhyay and Shinjae Won (2024) “How Missing Markets of Managerial Talent Can Lead to Generalist Careers,” Journal of Developing Areas
• Shinjae Won and Matthew Bidwell (2023). “Finding the Right Path to the Top: How Past Interorganizational Moves Impact Executive Selection Outcomes,” Strategic Management Journal 
• Peter Cappelli and Shinjae Won (2023), “How You Pay Affects How You Do: Financial Aid Type and Student Performance in College in US, ” Journal of Economic Research
• Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, Roxana Barbulescu and Ethan Mollick (2015), “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
LER 598 Designing High Performance Work Systems

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