Dr. Valery Yakubovich

Biography

Valery Yakubovich is the Executive Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the University of Pennsylvania. He oversees the daily operations of the institute, focusing on the synergy between research, teaching, and practice in innovation management, while fostering collaboration between corporations and academic institutions. Yakubovich has previously served as the founding executive director of Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab, where he developed institutional infrastructure for large-scale, open collaborative social sciences. With a diverse academic background, he has experience in leading summer work programs for university students from the Soviet Union, conducting research, and teaching at major academic and corporate institutions in the United States and Europe. He has been a management faculty member at the Wharton School for several years and was a full Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School. He holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Moscow State University, a Master’s in Sociology from the University of Warwick, and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. His research on organizational innovations and social networks has been published in top academic journals, including the American Sociological Review and the Harvard Business Review.

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