Eva Labro
The Michael W. Haley Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Area Chair of Accounting
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 researcher and teacher.
For her research, she has won the 2025 Best Paper Award at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting; 2021 and 2011 Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Awards; 2014, 2013 and 2011 Greatest Impact on Management Accounting Practice Awards from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; and the 2007 Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association conference. She also has received the 2024 inaugural Bredrup Faculty Excellence Award, the 2022 Weatherspoon Award for Distinguished Research and the 2018 Bullard Award for Research Impact from UNC Kenan-Flagler.
For her teaching, she has won the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award from the Charlotte Executive MBA Program inaugural class, 2019 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in MBA teaching, 2017 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in PhD teaching, and 2016 MBA Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award at UNC Kenan-Flagler. She also received the 2006 London School of Economics Teaching Prize.
Dr. Labro has published extensively in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management (POM) and Review of Accounting Studies.
She an editor at The Accounting Review, an associate editor at the Journal of Accounting Research, and the new departmental editor for the POM-Accounting Interface department at Production and Operations Management, a journal from which she received the Best Senior Editor Award in both 2018 and 2025. She is a past senior editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research, European 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.
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 master’s in commercial and business economics.
