Grace Gu

Grace Gu is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Her research interests lie in the intersection of technological innovation and strategic management, with a focus on technology strategies in the IT industry. One theme of Grace’s work examines disintermediation in online marketplaces. Her other work studies user’s ideological and composition shifts in more traditional online communities such as Wikipedia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Technology Strategy, Digitization and Innovation, Platform Strategy

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration Harvard University
• M.A. Tsinghua University
• B.A. Fudan University
• Tsinghua University

PUBLICATIONS

• Grace Gu and Feng Zhu. 2021. “Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace” Management Science, 67(2): 794–807.

• Greenstein, Shane, Grace Gu, and Feng Zhu. "Ideology and Composition Among an Online Crowd: Evidence From Wikipedians." Management Science (forthcoming).

AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, AND HONORS

• Strategy Research Foundation Dissertation Scholar Award, 2017-2018
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2017-2018
• Strategic Management Society Conference Best PhD Paper Award, 2017
• Academy of Management TIM Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2018
• ICIS Workshop on E-Business Best Paper Award Finalist, 2017