Gwen Yu is an associate professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how accounting information affects various real economic outcomes, especially in an international setting. Professor Yu’s work has been published in top peer reviewed journal such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and it has been cited and discussed in The New York Times, in The Financial Times, on CBS Money Watch, and in other outlets of the financial press. She is on the Editorial Board of The Accounting Review.

At Ross, Yu teaches in the second year MBA program. She has previously taught in the MBA, Doctoral and Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School. She has provided executive education to a wide range of firms and authored many cases which are used around the globe.

Professor Yu holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, where she also earned a master’s degree in applied economics. Prior to joining Ross, she was a faculty member at Harvard Business School in the Accounting and Management unit. Before pursuing her graduate studies, she worked at McKinsey & Company and the global reinsurer Swiss Re.