Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Greta Hsu is a professor of management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, M.S. in Statistics, and M.A. and B.A. Sociology from Stanford University. In July 2025, she was named the Robert W. Glock and Miriam R. Glock Endowed Chair in Management.

Through her research, Hsu develops understanding of how market categories are socially constructed, how they are used and strategically manipulated by market actors, and how they shape market evolution and competitive dynamics. Her work includes studies of industry dynamics in the cannabis, e-cigarette, wine, film, book publishing, global fashion, and high-tech industries. She has published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, and the British Medical Journal.

Hsu is an associate editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and co-editor of Research in Organizational Behavior. She was formerly a department editor and associate editor at Management Science, senior editor at Organization Science, and co-editor of the Culture and Economic Life book series at Stanford University Press.

Courses Taught 
The Individual and Group Dynamics, Managing People in High-Performance Organizations, Strategy and Structure, People Analytics

Fast Facts

• Expert in market categorization processes, organizational identity, and industry evolutionary dynamics

Awards

• One of the Top Three Best Paper Awards for "The Impact of Mandated Pay Gap Transparency on Firms’ Reputations as Employers,” 2022, Saïd School of Business, Oxford University Center for Corporate Reputation's Annual Symposium, 2024
• Seeman Faculty Term Fellowship, UC Davis, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, The 13th Organizational Ecology Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2010.
• Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Co-Primary Investigator on “SoD-TEAM: Longitudinal effects of design in open source projects,” ($750,000), 2006-09.
• Industry Studies Program Travel Grant, Sloan Foundation, (with S. Grodal), 2008.
• Small Grant in Aid of Research, UC Davis.