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Zhang, Yu

Professor of Strategy;
Department Chair (Strategy and Entrepreneurship), CEIBS
Programme Co-Director of CEIBS Venture Capital Camp

zyu3@ceibs.edu
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Dr. Zhang Yu is Professor of Strategy, Department Chair of Strategy 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.

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.

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.

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
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TEACHING INTERESTS
Awards and Honors
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IN THE MEDIA
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • 2008, Ph.D. in Management, INSEAD
  • 2005, M.Sc., in Management, INSEAD
  • 2002, M.Sc., in Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 1999, B.A., in Economics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Interaction between Strategy and Capital Markets
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Corporate Governance
TEACHING INTERESTS
  • Strategic Management
  • Industry and Competitive Analysis
  • Innovation and Competition
  • Strategic Renewal and Transformation
Awards and Honors
  • CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award, CEIBS (2023)
  • CEIBS Power of One Service Excellence Award for Faculty Members, CEIBS (2021)
  • CEIBS Research Excellence Award, CEIBS (2020)
  • CEIBS Research Excellence Award, CEIBS (2017)
  • Celebration of Teaching Dean’s Honoree Award, UC Irvine
  • Best Symposium Award, Academy of Management
  • Best PhD Student Paper Award, Strategic Management Society
PUBLICATIONS

Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Inter-organizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars(Guo, Wei & Zhang, Yu) , 2022
Academy of Management Journal, 65: 304-330. 
•  Featured in Academy of Management Insights “Strategic Allies Can Be Frenemies in Price Wars” May 27, 2021
•  Featured in INSEAD Knowledge “The “Frenemy” Effect: When Strategic Alliances Go South” May 11, 2021

Activist Hedge Fund Success: The Role of Reputation(Wiersema, M., Ahn, A., & Zhang, Y.) , 2020
Strategic Management Journal. Forthcoming.

Do Firms Learn More from Small or Big Successes and Failures?(Gong, Yan & Zhang, Yu) , 45(3), pp. 1034–1056, 2019
Journal of Management

Commitment to Marketing Spending under Pressures from Analysts’ Earnings Expectations: Does it lead to Higher Stock Market Performance?(Currim, I., Lim, J., Zhang, Y. ) , 46(3), pp.431-452, 2018
Journal of Academy of Marketing Science

Stock Return or Sales Growth? Multiple Performance Feedback and Strategic Investments under Securities Analysts’ Earnings Pressure(Gong, Yan & Zhang, Yu) , 55: 1356-1385, 2018
Journal of Management Studies

Is R&D Risky?(Bromiley, P., Rau, D., Zhang, Y.) , 38(4), 876-891, 2017
Strategic Management Journal

Earnings Pressure and Long-Term Corporate Governance: Can Long-Term-Oriented Investors and Managers Reduce the Quarterly Earnings Obsession?(Zhang, Y., Gimeno, J.) , 27(2), 354–372, 2016
Organization Science

Earnings Pressure and Competitive Behaviour: Evidence from the US Electricity Industry(Zhang, Y., Gimeno, J.) , 53(4), 743-768, 2010
Academy of Management Journal

VIDEOS

2024-12-19 Professor of Strategy Yu Zhang | CEIBS Faculty Introductions

2022-08-15 Glue or gasoline? Do inter-company links fan the flames of hyper-competition?

2021-11-16 2021 CEIBS Faculty Awards

2020-04-30 Lessons for Leaders from the Pandemic: The Role of 5G Technology in the COVID-19 Era

2016-07-05 How the capital market affects firm strategy

2016-07-05 Mobile Payment Revolution: China vs US

2016-07-05 What’s next for China’s booming e-commerce industry?

2016-07-05 Going head to head with the big guys

IN THE MEDIA

2022-06-09 Meet China's Gen Z: Shaping the future of shopping

2021-11-04 Activist hedge fund success: Is there a new sheriff in the boardroom?

2021-08-12 Glue or gasoline? Do inter-company links fan the flames of hyper-competition?

2021-06-02 Strategic Allies Can Be Frenemies in Price Wars

2021-03-11 Tapping Generation Z becomes paramount for companies seeking growth

2021-02-22 CEIBS Associate Professor of Strategy Zhang Yu offers some insights into how companies can better tap into China’s Generation Z

2017-04-14 United's Unfriendly Skies Outburst Spotlights Airlines' Risky Earnings Obsession

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