Xiaohui (Janet) Hao, PhD

Former Senior Economist
The Conference Board

The following is a biography of former employee/consultant

Janet Hao is a Senior Economist with the economics program of The Conference Board. She specializes in research on innovation, intangible assets and economic growth. In particular, she measures investment in innovations by commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies.

She assesses how intangible assets promote economic growth in Europe and emerging markets, and increase stock prices for U.S. and German firms. In addition, she examines the effect of real estate investment on the rapid economic growth of China. Her projects are sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the European Investment Bank.

Prior to joining The Conference Board, Hao earned her PhD in economics in 2007 from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation examined how highways promote trade and development in U.S. metropolitan areas.

As an undergraduate at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, she wrote several papers about the impact of Chinese economic reforms on small- and medium-sized enterprises during the 1990s.

Publications by Xiaohui (Janet) Hao, PhD

Reports

Introduction to The Conference Board Global Supplier Index 15 December, 2021
Winners and Losers if Supply Chains Shift Away From China 09 December, 2021
Tool Kit: Five Communication Strategies for Advancing Innovation 27 July, 2021
Tool Kit: Seven Skills for Communicating Innovation Successfully 27 July, 2021
How to Deliver Better Return on Innovation Through Improved Communication With Stakeholders 27 July, 2021
Realizing the Full Potential of Digital Transformation: Three Areas of Focus 30 June, 2020
Useful and Emerging Practices of Highly Innovative Organizations in the Digital Era: Results from The Conference Board and InnovationOne Global State of Innovation Survey 2019 16 March, 2020
China's "Intangible Investment" Continues to Underperform 08 May, 2019
Rethinking the Innovation Potential of Occupations: Introducing a Cross-functional Dashboard 15 August, 2018
Rethinking Innovation Spending: What the Data on Intangible Investment Reveals 18 December, 2017
Signposts of Innovation: A Review of Innovation Metrics 03 May, 2017
Signposts of Innovation: Toward Better Innovation Metrics for Business—A Primer 03 May, 2017
China Center Slidicle: Middle-Aged Women in China—An Unutilized Workforce Opportunity? 03 October, 2016
No More Tiers: Navigating the Future of Consumer Demand across China's Cities (CHRO Strategic Implications) 14 December, 2015
No More Tiers: Navigating the Future of Consumer Demand across China's Cities (CMO Strategic Implications) 19 November, 2015
No More Tiers: Navigating the Future of Consumer Demand across China's Cities 18 November, 2015
China Center Special Briefing Paper: Appraising Industrial Overcapacity – the Achilles Heel of Chinese Growth? 14 September, 2015
China Center Chart of the Week: Downward pressures on real estate building across Chinese cities nationwide 03 March, 2015
China Center Chart of the Week: Household consumption in China remains highly concentrated 02 February, 2015
China Center Chart of the Week: Pricing for newly constructed real estate – between a rock and a hard place 08 January, 2015
China Center Chart of the Week: A closer look at declining real estate investment 01 December, 2014
China Center Chart of the Week: China’s growth rate for R&D investment is not exceptionally fast 29 October, 2014
The Growing Value of Brands and Their Contribution to Worldwide Economic Growth 23 July, 2014
Brands as Productive Assets: Concepts, Measurement, and Global Trends 15 November, 2013
China Center Chart of the Week: Increasing intangible investment not yielding commensurate increases in output 17 September, 2012
China Center Chart of the Week: China’s intangible investment – high in absolute amount, small relative to conventional capex 07 September, 2012
China Center Chart of the Week: Intangible investment in China has grown rapidly – but is it efficient? 24 August, 2012
Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Who Captures the Benefits of ICT? The Case of Digital Books 12 July, 2011
Innovation and Intangible Assets Gaining the Competitive Edge in Economic Recovery 26 January, 2011

External Publications

Bart van Ark, Janet X. Hao, Carol Corrado & Charles Hulten (2009), "Measuring intangible capital and its contribution to economic growth in Europe", EIB Papers, European Investment Bank, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 62-99.