Welcome! My name is Lily Zhu. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship at Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Organization and Management from the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine in Spring 2022.
My research primarily examines organizational behavior and entrepreneurship at the micro level, and I am currently focusing on questions related to how emotions and emotion management influence entrepreneurial pitches, creativity, and decision making. My research won the Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Paper Award from the Academy of Management annual meeting 2021.
I am also passionate about teaching. I have taught organizational behavior as part of the core curriculum for undergraduate business majors. I won the Outstanding PhD Instructor Award for the undergraduate program at the Paul Merage School of Business. I currently teach the Strategic Management capstone course at Washington State University’s Carson College of Business.
Prior to graduate school, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University with double major in psychology and economics. I also conducted research at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University and worked at a consulting firm in Washington D.C.
In a former life, I was a singer, lyricist, and ran a music composition club.