Denisa Mindruta

Denisa Mindruta is an Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. She obtained her PhD in strategic management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines how organizations and individuals within organizations create and appropriate value through strategic partnering. A number of her projects have examined the matching process driving partnership formation, both theoretically and empirically. She has explored this phenomenon in a variety of contexts involving contractual relationships between employees, teams, firms, universities, and non-profit organizations. Denisa’s research was published in the Strategic Management Journal and the American Journal of Political Science.

Her work has been recognized with several awards and fellowships. Denisa was a finalist for the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition and for the Wiley Blackwell Dissertation Award. She obtained the AOM Technology and Innovation Management Division Best Conference Paper Award in 2008. She is also a Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellow.

Denisa currently serves on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review. Over the years, she has served as Representative-at-Large for the Strategic Human Capital (2014-2016), the Cooperative Strategies (2016-2018), and the Competitive Strategies (2017-2019) Interest Groups at the Strategic Management Society. She has recently been elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management for the 2018-2020 term.

At HEC Paris, she teaches Technology and Innovation Strategy in the PhD, specialized masters, and MBA programs.

EDUCATION

• 2009 Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA
• 2002 M.A in Political Science, Stony Brook University - USA
• 1997 B.S. in Sociology, University of Bucharest - Romania
• 1993 B.S. in Mathematics, University of Bucharest - Romania

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic responsabilities at HEC

• 2018-2019 Department Head, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
• 2015- Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
• 2008-2014 Assistant Professor HEC Paris
• 2008- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

• 2005-2007 Instructor, Business Policy and Strategy (Undergraduate capstone course)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

• Member, Academy of Management Association (BPS, Entrepreneurship, TIM, OMT Divisions)
• Member of the Research Committee, BPS Division, Academy of Management
• Member, Strategic Management Society, EGOS, ISNIE

Editorial activities

• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Strategic Management Journal; Reviewer, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy
• Reviewer, Academy of Management Meetings, Strategic Management Society Conference, INFORMS/Organization Science dissertation proposal competition
• Member of the SMJ Editorial Review Board

Conference organisation

• 2010-2012 Research Seminar Series HEC Paris

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2016 2016 Strategic Management Society Special Conference Rome Best Paper Prize for the paper 'Stars and their Constellations: Determining Relative Value-Add in Team-Based Science', Janet Bercovitz, Denisa Mindruta, and Maryann Fedman
• 2008 Best Paper Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Academy of Management ; Winner of the 2008 Technology and Management Division Best Conference Paper
• 2008 Best Student Paper Award, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management
• 2005 Ewing Marion Kauffman Dissertation Fellow
• 2003 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the Best Paper in 2002, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago