Wei Cai
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division

- Areas of Expertise
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Leadership & Organizational Behavior, Managerial Accounting
- Contact
- Office: 1151 Kravis
- E-mail: [email protected]
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- Curriculum Vitae
Wei Cai joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests revolve around management accounting, organizational culture, and diversity and inclusion. Her research broadly investigates how to measure and manage key organizational capital. For example, she examines how corporate leaders and managers can deliberately design and shape organizational culture, and improve organizational outcomes through innovative management control systems. She uses multiple research methods including statistical analyses of archival data sources, field experiments, and surveys. She closely collaborates with practitioners and collects unique data that can provide important managerial implications for the design of management control systems in shaping desirable organizational outcomes.
Professor Cai’s work has been recognized with multiple awards (e.g., AAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, AAA Innovation in Research Award, IMA Emerging Scholar Award). Her research has also been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes among others, and published in The Accounting Review, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research. Professor Cai delivered a TEDx talk, A Symphony of Inclusion.
Professor Cai received a Doctor of Business Administration (Accounting and Management) from Harvard Business School. Prior to earning her DBA, she worked as a senior financial advisor at Ernst & Young in New York.
All Activities
Good Influence: The Spillover Effect of New, Culture-Fit Employees
The Power of New Hires: How Fresh Talent Shapes Company Culture
Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit
New Research Shows Strong Company Culture Builds Trust with Customers
Fostering Greater Diversity at Work May Start in the Boardroom
Playing for Excellence? How Gamified Training Impacts Employee Performance
An Innovation Solution: Why Pay Is Key to Sparking New Ideas
Delivering on ESG Claims? Research on Workforce Diversity Identifies Proven Path to Meet Goals
Workplace Culture: How Systems Measuring "Fit" May Have Long-Term Impact on Organizational Culture
Inclusive Boost: Companies that Promote Inclusive Managers See Increased Stock Price
Prof. Wei Cai Awarded 2021 AAA Dissertation Award
News Helps Drive the Stock Market, But Not in Ways You Might Think, Says New Research from Columbia Business School