Dr. Jifeng Yu earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University, and M.S. from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research interests focus on corporate strategy; firm competition; alliance networks; innovation; international entrepreneurship; and risk management. His teaching interests are business policy and strategy.

Yu’s publications include "Periphery, overlap, and subunit exit in multiunit firms: A subunit power perspective," Journal of Management; “The payback of innovation: empirical evidence from firms that have won innovation awards,” Production and Operations Management; “Effects of alliances, time and network cohesion on the initiation of foreign sales by new ventures,” Strategic Management Journal; “Enterprise risk management: strategic antecedents, risk integration and performance,” North American Actuarial Journal; and “Reinsurance networks and their impact on reinsurance decisions: theory and empirical evidence,” Journal of Risk & Insurance.