I’m an Assistant Professor of  Strategy and Innovation at Questrom School of Business, Boston University.

I study how corporations navigate conflicting stakeholder demands in their technology and market decisions to sustain competitive advantage. My work examines how transparency regimes, self‑regulation, and institutional capacity shape firms’ innovation choices, competitive outcomes, and community impacts in regulation‑ and resource‑intensive settings. A central theme is accountable secrecy: designing disclosure rules that steer firms toward safer practices while safeguarding legitimate know‑how from technology expropriation.

I hold a Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. I also obtained an MSc in Metals and Energy Finance from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, as a Chevening Scholar.

Prior to academia, I was Deputy Director of Strategy and Business Development at Sinopec Group, a multinational energy and petrochemical company, where my roles included conducting cross-border M&As, strategic planning, and managing relationships with key stakeholders.

I grew up in Chongqing, China, and have lived in Canada, Switzerland, the UK, the US, and Italy. 

Email: xtang1@bu.edu