Lecturer
School of Management
School of Global Innovation and Leadership
Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0164
Office: BT452

Email

Preferred: janet.tan@sjsu.edu

Office Hours

Monday 12pm - 1pm

Office Location

BT 452 or Zoom by request

Education

Ph.D, International Political Economy, National Chengchi University of Taiwan

MS, Engineering Management, Santa Clara University

BA, Math and Computer Science, San Jose State University

Bio

Dr. Tan has been an entrepreneur most part of her career. She has coached many startup companies both in Silicon Valley and East Asia in the past 30 years.

In the early years, she started her own company with partners in Silicon Valley working on Speech Recognition technology in medical transcription field and was granted by NIH to innovate and produce dictation products for radiologists to transcribe their medical records. She also marketed the products in Asia.

In the recent years, Dr. Tan worked with Professor Michael Porter on projects in national competitiveness. She has been teaching Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) workshops and holding annual conferences. Meanwhile, she has been participating in the network of the Porter's Institute to research strategy and competitiveness in alliance with other international researchers.

Her earlier technical contribution included a patent, System and method for generating database input forms.

Dr. Tan's latest publications include:

The Semiconductor Industry: crisis and deglobalization

ChatGPT: A disruptive blessing in disguise for higher education?

A Covid paradox: collateral benefits enhancing future education

Dr. Tan enjoys helping entrepreneurs starting their businesses and projects. She also enjoys cooking.