Amy Nguyen-Chyung Ph.D. MBA-MPA
College of Business - Department of Business
Dr. Amy Nguyen-Chyung is Dean of the College of Business and an academic leader with a distinguished background in entrepreneurship, innovation, strategic management and global business.
Since joining HPU in 2025, Dr. Nguyen-Chyung worked with President John Gotanda and HPU Council Member and donor John F. Scarpa to design and launch the new university-wide Scarpa Entrepreneurial Pathway, through which she has overseen the development of 8 faculty-led new courses and programs in new Faculty Change Maker Fellowships and over 30 events, including the HPU Startup Challenge and the Appetite for Entrepreneurship Series. She has collaborated with faculty and colleagues and external parties to develop and achieve accreditation for the new accelerated 90 credit undergraduate degree, the BS in Global Business, and helped recruit its first cohort for Fall 2026. This degree is one of the first in the nation and the first in Hawai’i. Dr. Nguyen-Chyung has also worked with faculty to expand the Masters of Science in Construction Management significantly and launch the new Mandarin Doctor in Business Administration program with university partner, Beacon.
Dr. Nguyen-Chyung joins HPU from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) where she was the faculty co-director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, a collaboration between the business and engineering schools. At the UCSD Rady School of Management, she played a pivotal role in elevating the school’s entrepreneurship rankings and spearheaded the capstone series that launched new ventures and was a recipient of the Most Valuable Professor award. Her leadership extended to the Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, where she chaired the faculty committee. She also directed the Rady MicroMBA program and led Rady’s first global immersion program to Vietnam in 2024.
Before UCSD, she served as an assistant professor of strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An innovative researcher and accomplished educator, she has received recognition and grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, published in scholarly and practice journals, and authored award-winning teaching materials.
Beyond academia, she has over 15 years of experience in consulting and international finance and investments, working with Fortune 500 companies and startups worldwide. She supports high growth ventures as a Limited Partner at Next Wave Impact, San Diego Angel Conference, and SoGal Ventures. Dr. Nguyen-Chyung holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School, a joint MBA MPA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.
Fun facts: She is a two-time National Champion in kata and kobudo (weapons) in her age and rank group. She was a member of the AAU National Karate Team that competed at the WUKF World Championship in 2022 (where she medaled in kobudo). She has visited all 50 states.
