Susan Shu

Professor of Accounting and the Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow, Boston College, Carroll School of Management

Professor Susan Shu serves as Professor of Accounting and the Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow at Boston College. She holds a B.A. from the University of Dubuque and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She is the Director of the Ph.D. program in accounting. Her research interests include corporate disclosure, media, social media, security litigation under U.S. securities laws, enforcement, insider trading, and economics of auditor-client alignments. Her research has appeared inleading academic journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. In 2014, Professor Shu received the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for her (coauthored) paper “Do Managers Withhold Bad News?”