Welcome to my personal website! My name is Vivianna Fang He. I was born and raised in China; educated in Singapore, the US, and Switzerland. My Chinese name (何方) means “where” in ancient poems—perhaps this is the origin of my inclination to explore.
I am an Associate professor at the School of Management, University of St. Gallen. As the founding director of the Institute of Responsible Innovation, I lead an interdisciplinary research team focusing on innovative technologies and organizational forms for societal impact.
CV here.
Upcoming research talk
Decentralized Consensus Formation: Redesigning Bitcoin’s Participation Architecture. University College London, Mar 6, 2024.
Trust generalisation across digital representations in virtual collaboration. SKEMA, Apr 22, 2024.
TBD. Imperial College London, May 16, 2024.
Recent research talks
Adaptive redesign, University of Southern Denmark, Sep 7, 2023.
Taking control: Collaborative design of a control system that enables innovation, National University of Singapore, Mar 29, 2023.
Taking control: Collaborative design of a control system that enables innovation, University of Zurich, Mar 14, 2023.
Scaling up without blowing up: How Bitcoin collective manage growth-driven conflict, University of Geneva, Dec 15, 2022.
Scaling up without blowing up: How Bitcoin collective manage conflict that emerge with growth, INSEAD, Singapore, Nov 15, 2022.
Scaling up without blowing up: How Bitcoin collective manage conflict that emerge with growth, Bayes Business School, London, Oct 13, 2022.
Scaling up without blowing up: How the Bitcoin movement manages conflict, NTU Business School, Aug 2022.
The leaderless revolution: How Bitcoin movement manages internal conflict. University of St. Gallen, Feb 2022.
Soaking it up: How to internalize external knowledge? Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Sep 2021.
A story well told: Communication shape the fate of venture ideas. Rotterdam School of Management, Feb 2021.