Faculty Profile
Xiaolu Wang
Assistant Professor of International Business & Management (2016)
Contact Information
Althouse Hall Room 210
717-254-8725
Bio
Dr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Ph.D. in economic sociology from Columbia University (New York). His research interests range from pricing practices, sociology of markets, big data in business, sentiment analysis, pop music markets, digital humanities, causal inference, quantitative methods, to mathematical modeling of social systems. Dr. Wang has published in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Cultural Analytics, International Journal of Digital Humanities, Sociological Studies, Economic Sociology Research, and other anthologies. His current research project leverages Big Data, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantitatively study the emotion economies in Chinese mass cultural markets, such as pop music, astrology, intimate-relation reality shows, and online forums for relationship consultation and discussion.
Education
- B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004
- M.A., Columbia University, 2009
- M. Phil., 2010, Ph.D., 2015
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
INBM 100 Fundamentals of Business
This course features an introductory focus on a wide range of business subjects including the following: business in a global environment; forms of business ownership including small businesses, partnerships, multinational and domestic corporations, joint ventures, and franchises; management decision making; ethics; marketing; accounting; management information systems; human resources; finance; business law; taxation; uses of the internet in business; and how all of the above are integrated into running a successful business. You will learn how a company gets ideas, develops products, raises money, makes its products, sells them and accounts for the money earned and spent.
This course will not fulfill a distribution requirement.
INBM 240 Marketing in a Global Context
The primary objective of this course is to identify how companies identify and satisfy their customers' needs. Not only are the "4p's of marketing" covered (product, price, promotional programs like advertising and public relations, and place or distribution), but working with a specific semester-long case, you will learn how to manage an integrated marketing program. We will also examine other important aspects of marketing: market research, new product development, consumer behavior, ethics, competitive analysis and strategic planning, and marketing internationally and on the Internet. Field trips and videos are used to reinforce the ideas presented in the classroom.
Prerequisite: 100 or permission of the instructor. 110 is recommended but not required.