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. For more information, please see my full CV here.

Recent research talks

  • Trust generalisation across digital representations in virtual interactions, University College London, May 29, 2024.

  • Decentralized Consensus Formation: Redesigning Bitcoin’s Participation Architecture. Imperial College London, May 16, 2024.

  • Trust generalisation across digital representations in virtual collaboration. SKEMA, Apr 22, 2024.

  • 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.