Kevin Hak Hyun Yu
Associate at McKinsey & Company · Berkeley Haas MBA · CFA Charterholder
I am an Associate at McKinsey and Company, a Berkeley Haas MBA graduate, and a CFA Charterholder with experience across finance, consulting, entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact investing, and strategy.
My work focuses on helping individuals and organizations turn complexity into clarity. Across education, careers, finance, growth strategy, and impact, I aim to help people make better decisions, build stronger foundations, and move forward with more intention.
I created Advance Fundamentals as a platform for practical learning, advisory support, projects, and structured tools grounded in first principles thinking.
What shaped my work.
My work has been shaped by moving across countries, disciplines, and institutions. I grew up between Korea, Canada, and the United States, studied business and finance, and worked across venture philanthropy, entrepreneurship, investing, and consulting.
Those experiences made me interested in a simple but difficult question: how do people and organizations build real agency in complex systems?
Advance Fundamentals is my answer to that question. It is a platform for practical learning, advisory support, projects, and structured tools that help people clarify what matters, return to first principles, and move forward with better judgment.
Principles that guide the work.
These principles guide the way I write, teach, advise, and build through Advance Fundamentals.
Return to fundamentals
Complex decisions become easier when they are brought back to first principles. Whether the topic is business, finance, careers, education, or growth, the goal is to separate what is essential from what is noise.
Make the abstract practical
Good ideas should not stay abstract. The purpose of learning is to improve judgment, action, and outcomes. Every article, video, service, and project should help people understand something more clearly and apply it more effectively.
Build agency, not dependency
The goal is not only to provide answers. The goal is to help people develop stronger judgment, clearer thinking, and greater capacity to navigate future decisions on their own.
Combine depth with clarity
Important topics deserve depth, but depth should not require unnecessary complexity. The work should be thoughtful enough to be rigorous, but clear enough to be useful.
Connect strategy to execution
Insight only matters when it changes what people do. Whether working with individuals or organizations, the aim is to translate analysis into priorities, decisions, systems, and next steps.
Serve meaningful progress
Growth should be connected to something deeper than status or optimization. The work of Advance Fundamentals is ultimately about helping people and organizations move toward more durable capability, contribution, and economic empowerment.
Ways to engage with Advance Fundamentals.
Advance Fundamentals brings together learning, advisory support, projects, and tools for people and organizations trying to make better decisions.
Learn
Read articles and watch videos on business, finance, careers, strategy, personal growth, and systems of economic empowerment.
Explore LearnServices
Work with me on MBA strategy, consulting recruiting, finance learning, career direction, growth strategy, fractional CFO support, or strategic projects.
Explore ServicesProjects
Explore standalone creations, experiments, and initiatives that test and extend the core ideas behind Advance Fundamentals.
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