Dr. Bing Wang is a scholar, professor, and practitioner. She is a Senior Lecturer of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT, she was an Associate Professor in practice of real estate and the built environment and the Faculty Head leading the Master’s real estate MDes program at Harvard University for nearly 15 years.
Dr. Wang’s work lies at the intersection of value creation, real estate development and investment, urban innovation, and global market dynamics, within entrepreneurial ecosystems and technological undertakings. She has led or collaborated on projects with regional and city governments, environmental agencies, developers, and major institutions, including the World Bank, the U.S. and China National Science Foundations, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Bank of China, McKinsey & Company, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, among others.
Dr. Wang’s research has been recognized with Best Manuscript Awards from the American Real Estate Society in 2016 and 2018. She has authored and edited five books, including The Architectural Profession of Modern China (2011), Prestige Retail: Perspectives on the High-End, Luxury Goods Markets (2014), Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design (2015), Understanding China’s Real Estate Markets (2022), and Innovation Dynamics of Real Estate: PropTech and Beyond (forthcoming). She has also published more than 40 book chapters, peer-reviewed journal papers and articles. She serves on the editorial boards of Planning Theory & Practice (UK), The Journal of Sustainable Real Estate (USA), The Encyclopedia of Ecological Culture (China), and on the editorial advisory board of The German Journal of Real Estate Research (Germany).
Dr. Wang has been co-chairing two of Harvard University’s flagship Real Estate Executive Programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard Design School since 2012, and currently serves as a Steering Committee Member of the Harvard China Fund. She is an elected Board Director of both the American Real Estate Society and the Chinese Society for Urban Studies, and a Board Governor of The School of Architecture founded by Frank Lloyd Wright. She is also a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as an advisor and principal partner in business partnerships across the U.S., China, Luxembourg, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Wang received her Doctoral and Master’s degrees both from Harvard University, and her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. She is a visiting faculty member or guest lecturer at Tsinghua University in China, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in India, the University of Cambridge and Oxford University in the UK.