Kate Ho, who served as the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy and the co-director of the university’s Center for Health and Wellbeing at the University, died on Dec. 8 from cancer. She was 53 years old.
Ho joined the Princeton faculty in 2018. She taught several courses at the University covering firm competition and game theoretic methods in industrial organization, including ECO 327: Firm Competition and Strategy: A Mathematical Approach, ECO 542/543: Industrial Organization & Public Policy II/III, and ECO 566: Health Economics II.
Ho also co-taught the well-loved ECO 581B: Industrial Organization Workshop with Nicholas Buchholz. She received the Economics Department’s Best Advisor Award from graduate students and the Rosen Prize for undergraduate teaching…
