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Wei Cai

Assistant Professor of Business
Accounting Division
Wei Cai, Assistant Professor of Business
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.

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Journal Article
Cai, Wei
. “ Formalizing the Informal: Adopting a Formal Culture-fit Measurement System in the Employee Selection Process .” (August 11, 2022).
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Journal Article
Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin
. “Incentive Contracts and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field.”
AAA 2019 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
(December 07, 2018).
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Working Paper
Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai , and Tatiana Sandino
. Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training On Employee Performance. December 08, 2022.
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Course
B6001: Financial Accounting
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Course
B3013: Financial Accounting
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In the Media

Boeing Needs a Culture Overhaul. Could Strategic Hiring Help?

Industry Week
In the Media

Are Games the Secret to Better Company Training?

The Wall Street Journal
In the Media

Sorry Bosses, but Your Team May Not Want to Hang out with You at Christmas Parties Anymore: Steer Clear of the ‘Back in My Day’ Trap

Fortune
In the Media

Does Gamified Training Get Results?

Harvard Business Review
In the Media

The Small Consolations of Office Irritations

The Economist
In the Media

Reading Corporate Culture from the outside

The Economist
Article

Diversity Targets: An Actual Path to Change or the Latest Corporate Lip Service?

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Good Influence: The Spillover Effect of New, Culture-Fit Employees

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The Power of New Hires: How Fresh Talent Shapes Company Culture

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Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

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New Research Shows Strong Company Culture Builds Trust with Customers

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Fostering Greater Diversity at Work May Start in the Boardroom

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Playing for Excellence? How Gamified Training Impacts Employee Performance

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An Innovation Solution: Why Pay Is Key to Sparking New Ideas

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Delivering on ESG Claims? Research on Workforce Diversity Identifies Proven Path to Meet Goals

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Workplace Culture: How Systems Measuring "Fit" May Have Long-Term Impact on Organizational Culture

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Inclusive Boost: Companies that Promote Inclusive Managers See Increased Stock Price

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Prof. Wei Cai Awarded 2021 AAA Dissertation Award

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News Helps Drive the Stock Market, But Not in Ways You Might Think, Says New Research from Columbia Business School

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