Eva Labro

Professor of Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Eva Labro’s research and teaching interests in management accounting interface with other disciplines such as economics, operations management, financial accounting, tax and purchasing. She is specifically interested in costing system design, and the provision of management accounting information for both decision making and performance measurement.

Dr. Labro is an award-winning teacher and researcher. She received the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award three times – in 2011, 2013 and 2014 – from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. She also received the 2011 Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Award and the 2007 Best Management Accounting paper award at the American Accounting Association conference. She received the 2017 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in PhD Teaching and the 2016 Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award at UNC Kenan-Flagler, and the 2006 London School of Economics Teaching Prize.

She has published extensively in top journals, including The Accounting ReviewJournal of Accounting ResearchJournal of Accounting and Economics, Management ScienceManufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. She is a senior editor at Production and Operations Management (POM) for its POM-Accounting Interface. She is the incoming senior editor at  the Journal of Management Accounting Research (2019-21). She serves on the  editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting ResearchEuropean Accounting Review and Management Accounting Research.

Dr. Labro’s work has received research funding from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the U.K. and the Institute of Management Accountants in the U.S.

A dual American-Belgian national, she is fluent in Dutch/Flemish and conversational in French and German, with notions of Italian and Danish.

Before she joined UNC Kenan-Flagler, Dr. Labro was a reader (associate professor) at the London School of Economics.

She received her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She also studied in Denmark and the U.K. She received a doctoral fellowship from the Intercollegiate Centre for Management Studies in Brussels. She obtained her masters in commercial and business economics engineering (summa cum laude), a degree in business engineering (cum laude) and a teaching qualification from the Catholic University of Leuven.

Recent Publications

March 14, 2019

We examine trends in the use of predictive analytics for a sample of more than 25,000 manufacturing plants using proprietary data from the US Census.

Eva LabroMark Lang

September 19, 2018

Widespread adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems is increasing. EMR implementation can be costly and typically requires workflow redesign. To our knowledge, no studies to date have examined the impact of EMR implementation using advanced cost accounting methods or the impact of its implementation on orthopaedic surgeons in an outpatient setting. Time-driven activity-based costing (TD-ABC) was used to evaluate the effect of EMR implementation in an outpatient adult reconstruction clinic.

Eva Labro