Balázs Kovács

Balázs Kovács is a Hungarian-born academic. He is a management professor at the Yale School of Management.

Early life and education Born in Hungary, Kovács received a diploma in economics and sociology from Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, in 2004. He also attended the University of Groningen in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2003.

From 2015 to 2020, Kovács was an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale, later becoming an Associate Professor from 2020 to 2023.

As of 2023, Kovács serves as Professor of Organizational Behavior with an additional courtesy appointment in Sociology. He is also affiliated with the Yale Institute for Network Science and the Computation and Society Initiative at Yale.

Kovács has contributed to various academic journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, and Strategic Management Journal.

In recent work, he shows the implications of GenAI and ChatGPT on categorization processes.