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Valery Yakubovich

Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Email: valeryy@wharton.upenn.edu

Office Address: 3463 SHDH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

As the Executive Director of the Mack Institute, Dr. Valery Yakubovich focuses on creating synergies among research, teaching, and practice of innovation management within the school and university, promoting dialogue between practitioners and academics, and connecting with corporate and regional partners’ innovation ecosystems.

In his previous roles, he conducted research, teaching, consulting, and fundraising at major academic and corporate institutions, including the Wharton School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the ESSEC Business School in France.

Dr. Yakubovich’s research on technological and organizational innovations and social networks has appeared in top academic and practitioner journals, including Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology, Human Relations, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and was featured in mass media, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal among others.

Links: CV; Google Scholar; LinkedIn

Education

PhD, Sociology, Stanford University
MA, Sociology, University of Warwick
Diploma, Mathematics, Moscow State University

Academic & Research Positions

Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management (2022-present)
Adjunct Professor, The Wharton School (2024 – present)
Senior Fellow, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School (2011-present)
Professor of Management, ESSEC Business School (2011-2023)
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School (2006-2011)
Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2001-2005)

Other Positions

Executive Director, Computational Social Science Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Global Leadership Center, INSEAD

Selected Publications

  1. Yakubovich, Valery and Shuping Wu. “OrgTech: Evidence of Organizational Innovations in Patent Data.” Working paper.
  2. Peter Cappelli, Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe, and Valery Yakubovich. 2024. “Will Large Language Models Really Change How Work Is Done?” MIT Sloan Management Review, 65(3).
  3. Tambe, Prasanna, Peter Cappelli, and Valery Yakubovich. 2019. “Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: Challenges and a Path Forward.” California Management Review, 61(4): 15-42. DOI: 10.1177/0008125619867910
  4. Yakubovich, Valery and Ryan Burg. 2019. “Friends by Assignment? From Formal Interdependence to Informal Relations in Organizations.” Human Relations, 72(6): 1013-1038. DOI:10.1177/0018726718789479 (lead article).
  5. Yakubovich, Valery and Daniela Lup. 2006. “Stages of the Recruitment Process and the Referrer’s Performance Effect.” Organization Science, 17(6): 710-723.
  6. Yakubovich, Valery. 2005. “Weak Ties, Information, and Influence: How Workers Find Jobs in a Local Russian Labor Market.” American Sociological Review, 70(3): 408-21.