Yanting (Crystal) SHI

Crystal Yanting SHI is an Assistant Professor of the Accounting and Management Control Department at HEC Paris. She holds CPA credentials in China (CICPA), and Australia (CPA Australia), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and has passed all the subjects of the AICPA exams. Crystal’s research primarily examines corporate governance, focusing on the roles and adaptations of boards of directors and how their actions influence a firm’s business and social practices, thereby shaping its risk profile and value. She is also passionate about corporate diversity and inclusion, cybersecurity, business sustainability, and artificial intelligence, as these aspects introduce new opportunities and risks to modern corporations. 

Crystal’s work has been published in leading accounting journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from NYU Stern School of Business, an MS in Management Studies from MIT Sloan School of Business, and both an MBA and a BA from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management. Crystal has taught financial accounting to undergraduate, inexperienced master's, MBA, and EMBA students at NYU and HEC Paris. Before her academic career, Crystal served as the financial controller for J. Queen New York Inc., a home fashion design company, and worked as a public auditor for Ernst & Young China.