Second-Generation Korean Earns Tenure at Harvard
By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
A Korean-American professor was designated as a tenured professor at Harvard Business School (HBS).
Prof. Moon Young-me, 43, earned tenure as a professor of business administration in marketing at HBS.
The second-generation Korean teaches a number of executive education programs including consumer marketing strategy, strategic marketing management, and marketing innovative technologies.
She was born in 1964 in Atlanta, the U.S. and spent her secondary school years in Seoul.
Moon earned her bachelors degree in political science at Yale University. Following completing a master's degree in politics at Stanford University, she worked between 1985 and 1990 as a news producer at the U.S.-based broadcasting company NBC.
She went back to do her Ph.D. in communication at Stanford University in 1993.
The professor received the HBS Student Association Faculty Award for teaching excellence in both first-year marketing and in her elective course on several occasions for two consecutive years from 2005.
Moon currently lives in Brooklyne, New York, with her family.
HBS, which has long been regarded as one of the best business schools in the world, was established in 1908, marking the 100th anniversary next year.