Jenny Chu

Associate Professor in Accounting
Academic Director, Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre
Deputy Director, Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability (CFRA)
Fellow, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF)
JM Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, University of Cambridge

BBA (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), MBA (University of California, Berkeley), PhD (University of California, Berkeley)

Research interests

Stock markets and financial information disclosure (earnings quality and capital market reactions to accounting information); sell-side analysts; management incentives and compensation; gender diversity.

Subject group: Accounting

Professional experience

Jenny combines teaching and research with a background in investment banking and portfolio management. She worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions for technology companies at Credit Suisse in Silicon Valley. She later transitioned into a portfolio management role at the hedge fund division of Barclays Global Investors (now Blackrock). Her research has been published in academic journals such as Management Science, as well as covered by the popular press such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Awards & honours

• Best Paper Award (for “Auditor university education: does it matter?” with A. Florou and P.F. Pope), European Accounting Review, 2022
• J M Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics Award, University of Cambridge, 2022-2024
• Cambridge Judge Business School Teaching Award, 2019
• Competitive Paper in Corporate Finance Award (for “Do compensation consultants enable higher CEO pay? New evidence from recent disclosure rule changes” with J. Faasse and P.R. Rau), FMA, 2015
• Cambridge Judge Business School Teaching Award, 2013
• Crawford Research Assistant Fellowship Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
• CJ White Investment Banking Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
• Alumnae Council Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999-2000
• Class Honors, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997-2000
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Selected publications

Here are a selection of Jenny Chu’s publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.

Resick, C.J., Nadkarni, S., Chu, J., Chen, J., Lien, W.-C., Margolis, J.A. and Shao, P. (2023) “I did it my way: CEO core self-evaluations and the environmental contingencies on firm risk taking strategies.” Journal of Management Studies (DOI: 10.1111/joms.12872) (published online Sep 2022)

Chu, J., Florou, A. and Pope, P. (2022) “Auditor university education: does it matter?” European Accounting Review, 31(4): 787-818 (DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2020.1866633)

Chu, J., Gupta, A. and Livne, G. (2021) “Pay regulation – is more better?” Accounting and Business Research, 51(1): 1-35 (DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2020.1815515)

Chu, J., He, Y., Hui, K.W. and Lehavy, R. (2020) “New product announcements, innovation disclosure, and future firm performance.” Social Science Research Network Working Paper.

Chu, J. (2019) “Accruals, growth, and future firm performance.” Abacus, 55(4): 783-809 (DOI: 10.1111/abac.12177) (also available online via the SSRN)

Chu, J., Dechow, P.M., Hui, K.W. and Wang, A.Y. (2019) “Maintaining a reputation for consistently beating earnings expectations and the slippery slope to earnings manipulation.” Contemporary Accounting Research, 36(4): 1966-1998 (DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12492) (also available online via the SSRN)