Yasheng Huang

Business adviser, Educator/Teacher, Writer/Editor

Yasheng Huang is professor of political economy and international management and holds International Program Professorship in Chinese Economy and Business at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a special-term professorship at School of Management at Fudan University, School of Management at Xian Jiaotong University, School of Public Administration at Zhejiang University and an honorary professorship at Hunan University. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard University. His book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics is a detailed narrative account of history of economic reforms in China. It was selected by the Economist magazine as one of the best books published in 2008. At MIT Sloan School, Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in China and India improve their management. In 2010, he was named by National Asia Research Program as one of the most outstanding scholars in the United States conducting research on issues of policy importance to the United States. He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of MIT Entrepreneurship Center, a fellow at the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a research fellow at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, a fellow at William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, and a World Economic Forum Fellow. He has served as a consultant at World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and OECD and is serving on a number of advisory boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations.

Understanding economic growth and development.

Ideas are important but they should be supported by facts and data.

It is my first time at TED. I go to numerous conferences every year and this is one of the richest experiences I have had.