William is a T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and a Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the Author of Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press, 2022). William has published and been quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Magazine, New York Times, Science Magazine, Times Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, and appeared as an expert on Chinese TV stations CCTV and CGTN, and U.S. national outlets PBS NewsHour, NPR’s All Things Considered as well as local affiliates WGBH News, and WBUR.