Winner of the Best Paper Award at the MIT Asia Conference in Accounting for "Communicating Corporate Culture in Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings" with Joseph Pacelli and Tianshuo Shi.
Yuan Zou
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Yuan Zou is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. She teaches Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Zou conducts theoretically-motivated empirical studies aimed at furthering the understanding of capital markets, with an emphasis on issues of practical relevance to practitioners and regulators. She is especially interested in understanding the economic link between passive investing, price efficiency, and firm behavior. Her research in this area has been cited in one SEC commissioner speech and one SEC proposed rule. Professor Zou also examines the interaction between different types of disclosures. Her work has been published in Journal of Accounting and Economics and Management Science.
Professor Zou earned a Ph.D. in Accounting from Columbia Business School, an M.S. in Finance from Syracuse University, and a B.S. in Finance from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU).
- Journal Articles
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- Frankel, Richard, Alon Kalay, Gil Sadka, and Yuan Zou. "Complementarity between Audited Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure: The Case of Former Andersen Clients." Accounting Review 96, no. 6 (November 2021): 215–238. View Details
- Glosten, Lawrence, Suresh Nallareddy, and Yuan Zou. "ETF Activity and Informational Efficiency of Underlying Securities." Management Science 67, no. 1 (January 2021): 22–47. View Details
- Ferri, Fabrizio, Ronghuo Zheng, and Yuan Zou. "Uncertainty about Managers' Reporting Objectives and Investors' Response to Earnings Reports: Evidence from the 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosures." Journal of Accounting & Economics 66, nos. 2-3 (November–December 2018): 339–365. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Cai, Wei, Ethan Rouen, and Yuan Zou. "Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-069, May 2022. View Details
- Ru, Yi, Ronghuo Zheng, and Yuan Zou. "Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers' Information Acquisition Affect Analysts' Attention Allocation?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-064, July 2021. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Campbell, Dennis, and Yuan Zou. "Haidilao: Changing Your Future with Your Own Hands." Harvard Business School Case 122-031, September 2021. (Revised January 2023.) View Details
- Campbell, Dennis, Yuan Zou, Shu Lin, and Maxime Aymonod. "Automation at Haidilao." Harvard Business School Case 121-044, January 2021. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
- Healy, Paul M., and Yuan Zou. "Brown and Coconut." Harvard Business School Case 122-011, July 2021. (Revised August 2021.) View Details
- Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2022 Innovation in Research Award from the Diversity Section of the American Accounting Association for “Inclusive Managers” with Wei Cai and Ethan Rouen.
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