Dr. Zhang Yu is Professor of Strategy, Department Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Co-Director of CEIBS Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CEIBS. He received his PhD in Management from INSEAD. Prior to joining CEIBS, he was Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine. His teaching interests include Strategic Management, Industry and Competitive Analysis, Innovation and Competition, and Strategic Renewal and Transformation. He teaches strategic management and related courses across various programs at CEIBS and delivers executive education programs or facilitates strategy workshops for a wide range of well-known domestic and multinational companies.

Prof. Zhang’s research focuses on the interaction between strategy and capital markets. His research has been published in top journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He has been invited to present his research in leading business schools in Asia, Europe and North America, and to give keynote speech on leading industrial conferences such as the NACD Spring Forum. In addition, he serves or has previously served as an independent director or external board member of several publicly listed companies.

Prof. Zhang has won Research Excellence Award, Teaching Excellence Award, and Power of One Service Excellence Award for Faculty Members from CEIBS. He has also won Celebration of Teaching Dean’s Honoree Award from UC Irvine, Best Symposium Award from the Academy of Management, and Best PhD Student Paper Award from Strategic Management Society. His research on the role of corporate governance in regulating the impact of earnings pressure on firm strategy won the inaugural BlackRock/NACD Global Challenge for Innovation in Corporate Governance in 2013.