Haonan Yin

I am an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Information Systems at Iowa State University.

My research interests center on Generative AI and Healthcare:

Value of AI: Generative AI, Firm Valuation, Strategic AI Readiness
Risk of AI: Large Language Models, Fairness, Biases, Order Effect
Human-AI Collaboration: AI Chatbots, Informational Accuracy
Digital Health: Healthcare Operations Management, Well-being

Working Papers

* Stands for Equal Authorship: listed in alphabetical order by last name.

W1. “Exposure, Readiness, and Firm Valuation of Generative AI.” with Sanjeev Dewan and Fei Ren. Preparing for the 2nd round of review.

presented at Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE, Nashville, TN, 2025-12), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS, Nashville, TN, 2025-12), INFORMS Annual Meeting (2025, Atlanta GA 2025-10), AI and Collaborative Innovation Workshop (New York, NY, 2025-09), Wharton’s 3rd Annual Business and Generative AI Conference (San Francisco, CA, 2025-09), Business AI Conference (BizAI, Dallas, TX, 2025-03), Artificial Intelligence in Management Conference (AIM, Los Angeles, CA, 2025-03)

W2. “Fragile Preferences: A Deep Dive Into Order Effects in Large Language Models.” with Shai Vardi and Vidyanand Choudhary. Preparing for the 3rd round of review.

presented at Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS, Nashville, TN, 2025-12), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST, Atlanta, GA, 2025-10), Wharton’s 3rd Annual Business and Generative AI Conference (San Francisco, CA, 2025-09)
[arXiv]

W3. “Information-Seeking from AI Chatbots: Tradeoff between Judgment and Misinformation Concerns under Stigma.” with Behnaz Bojd and Arivanda Garimella. Preparing for the 2nd round of review.

presented at Fisher AI in Business Conference (Columbus, OH, 2025-10), Wharton’s 3rd Annual Business and Generative AI Conference (San Francisco, CA, 2025-09), Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA, Austin, TX, 2025-05), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024-12), Academy of Management (AOM, Chicago, IL, 2024-08), MIS Quarterly Author Development Workshop (Virtual, 2024-06), Business AI Conference (BizAI, Dallas, TX, 2024-03), The Twenty-Second Workshop on e-Business (WEB, Hyderabad, India, 2023-12), INFORMS Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ, 2023-10)
WEB Best Completed Research Paper Second Runner-up
[SSRN]

W4. “AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare.” with Manuel Hoffmann and Erkmen Aslim. Work in process.

presented at NBER Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Cambridge, MA, 2026-05), Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA, Washington, DC, 2025-05), NBER Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge, MA, 2026-07)

W5. “AI Rationality and Corporate Strategic Planning: The Myopia of Agenda Setting in the M-form Firm.” with Alex Rose, John Edward Joseph, Vidyanand Choudhary, and Vibhanshu Abhishek. Work in process.

presented at SMS 46th Annual Conference (Washington, DC, 2026-10)

Publications

P1. Ni Huang*, Zhijun Yan*, and Haonan Yin*. “Effects of online–offline service integration on e-healthcare providers: a quasi-natural experiment.” Production and Operations Management (UTD 24, FT 50) 30, no. 8 (2021): 2359-2378. [Link]

presented at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS, Munich, Germany, 2019-12), Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce (SCECR, Hong Kong, China, 2019-10), Tsinghua-Renmin-Peking Academia Colloquium on IS (Beijing, China, 2018-12)

P2. Bufei Xing, Haonan Yin, Zhijun Yan, and Jiachen Wang. “A study of similar question retrieval method in online health communities.” International Journal of Crowd Science 5, no. 2 (2021): 154-165. [Link]

presented at Pacific Asia Conference on Information System (PACIS, Yokohama, Japan, 2018-06)

P3. Huawei Kuang, Lichao Zhu, Haonan Yin, Zihe Zhang, Biao Jing, and Junwei Kuang. “The Impact of Individual Factors on Careless Responding Across Different Mental Disorder Screenings: A Cross-Sectional Study.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 27 (2025): e70451. [Link]

Conference Proceedings

C1. Haonan Yin, Nina Huang, and Zhijun Yan, “Effects of Online-offline Channel Integration on E-healthcare Providers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 20.

C2. Behnaz Bojd*; Aravinda Garimella*; and Haonan Yin*, “Overcoming the Stigma Barrier: Conversational Information-Seeking from AI Chatbots vs. Humans” (2024). ICIS 2024 Proceedings. 3.

C3. Haonan Yin, Sanjeev Dewan, and Fei Ren. “Exposure, Readiness, and Firm Valuation of Generative AI.” (2025). ICIS 2025 Proceedings. 10.

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