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Shelby Gai is an Assistant Professor of Management at Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business. Her research focuses on board design within the realm of organizational design, emphasizing how the composition of a company’s board of directors can be aligned with its strategic goals. Her dissertation examined both formal and informal structures of publicly listed boards, particularly the varying governance configurations of Hong Kong family businesses and their effects on firm-level outcomes. Shelby has received multiple awards for her work, including the 2018 Andreas Al-Laham Paper Award from the Multi-Level Network Research Standing Working Group of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) and was nominated for the 2019 Best Paper Proceedings in the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. Shelby holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Management Organizations from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and an M.S. in Statistics from Northwestern and an A.B. in Sociology with a certificate in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Before entering academia, she worked in Financial Services and at Spencer Stuart, an executive search firm, where she was a Junior Knowledge Manager for the Board Services Practice, leading research efforts that culminated in the Hong Kong Board Index.
Department of Psychology