Chou-Yu Tsai, Osterhout Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Binghamton University
Chou-Yu (Joey) Tsai holds the position of Osterhout Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Before joining Binghamton University, he held faculty positions at California State University, Los Angeles, and Penn State University, Great Valley. His research interests encompass leadership in entrepreneurship, virtual team dynamics, human capital resources, coaching emergence, and robotic technology. In recent projects, he has collaborated with Cornell University to investigate leadership functions within human-robot interactions while working with Waseda University in Japan to enhance entrepreneurship programs through group dynamics in virtual settings, aiming to promote the greater Tokyo innovation ecosystem. Currently, he serves as the Associate Director for Bass Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) and as an editorial board member for Leadership Quarterly.
Before his academic career, Joey Tsai worked as a managerial consultant for numerous international business organizations (e.g., Adidas Group, Tsingtao Brewery). His professional consulting projects encompassed various aspects such as organizational culture, leader selection and development, organizational development and change, intrapreneurship, and organizational engagement. This extensive professional experience has instilled in him a profound respect for the significance of education, leading him to treat all students as individuals with unique strengths and needs. His teaching interests span a broad spectrum, including leadership, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, advanced business statistics, research methods, and managerial consulting. In 2023, he was recognized as one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants.
