Will Wang is Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at HKU and Director of the AI Implementation Lab. His research explores the intersection of economics, technology and strategy.

Prior to academia, he served as Chief Economist at Unity Technologies and as a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.

Working Papers

• Product Portfolio Choices with Product Life Cycles

Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Marketing

• Digitization and Employment in the Pandemic: Evidence from 70 Billion Emails

with Eric Auerbach (Northwestern), Hongwei Liang (Microsoft), Sida Peng (Microsoft),  Andy Wu (Harvard), and Feng Zhu (Harvard)

Reject & Resubmit, Information Systems Research

• Sticky Consumers and Cloud Welfare

with Chuqing Jin (Toulouse) and Sida Peng (Microsoft)

• Do Concealed Gun Permits Deter Crime? Dynamic Insights from State Panel Data

with Marjorie McElroy (Duke)

• New Lease on Life: Extending Product Life Cycle with Product Re-Launch

with Jin Soo Han and Subin Kim (KAIST)

Reject & Resubmit, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Journal Publications

• Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes?  Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State

with Ann Harrison, Minyuan Zhao, Marshall Meyer, and Linda Zhao, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2026, 104: 103241.

Featured in: VoxEU, NBER Digest

• Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction

with Ulrich Doraszelski, Katja Seim, and Michael Sinkinson, American Economic Review, 2025, 115(3): 903-944.

Featured in: NPR Planet Money, Knowledge@Wharton

• Online Search and Optimal Product Rankings: An Empirical Framework

with Giovanni Compiani, Greg Lewis, and Sida Peng, Marketing Science, 2024, 43(3): 615-636.

• Unpolluted Decisions: Air Quality and Judicial Outcomes in China

with Yue Hou, Economics Letters, 2020, 194 (September): 109369.

Articles

• Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction

with Ulrich Doraszelski, Katja Seim, and Michael Sinkinson

Microeconomic Insights, April 2025.

• Azure Compute Usage Forecasting Using WaveNet: A Deep Learning Architecture and Churn Reduction Methods

with Chien-Hsun Huang, Sowmya Kumar, Emily Yan, Sachid Deshmukh, and Kaan Katircioglu

MSJAR, 2022, Vol. 17, 183-193.

• Changing the Tiger's Stripes: Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State

with Ann Harrison, Marshall Meyer, Linda Zhao, and Minyuan Zhao

VoxEU, April 2019.