Doug J. Chung is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School.  He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

Doug focuses his research primarily on sales force management and incentive compensation. His current work examines how different components of an incentive compensation plan affect the performance of varying types of sales agents.  Using data from a Fortune 500 company, he has developed a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus-based compensation plan and examined how various components of the plan affect the performance of sales agents. While bonuses enhance productivity across all segments, strong and weak performers exhibit differences. The best sales people can sustain their high levels of productivity even after attaining their quotas with the incentive of overachievement commissions, and weaker performers can be kept on track toward annual quotas with the incentive of quarterly bonuses. Doug is expanding his research to include cultural factors by investigating the effect of local and global incentives in businesses in Latin America.

Doug earned his Ph.D. in management at Yale University, where he also earned an MA and M. Phil in management. He is the recipient of the ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award, ISBM Doctoral Support Award, and the Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is also a member of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. He completed his undergraduate studies at Korea University.

Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Doug served as an officer and platoon commander in the South Korean Special Forces. He also held various industry positions with several multinational companies.