Crystal (Yanting) SHI

Crystal (Yanting) Shi is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management Control at HEC Paris. Crystal holds CPA credentials in China (CICPA), Australia (CPA Australia), and the United States (AICPA). She is also a CMA. Crystal's research focuses on corporate governance, which mainly probes how external (e.g., activist hedge funds) and internal (e.g., board of directors) corporate governance forces influence a firm's business and social practices and consequently affect its risk and value. Crystal is also very passionate about business sustainability studies, particularly regarding an essential social/corporate role: employees. Crystal's work has been published in leading accounting journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies. 

Crystal received Ph.D. from NYU Stern School of Business, MS in Management Studies from MIT Sloan School of Business, and both MBA and BA from Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management. Before starting her academic career, Crystal worked as the financial controller for home fashion design company J. Queen New York Inc. and as a public auditor for Ernst & Young China.