Violina Rindova

Ralph B. Thomas Professor of Business Ambassador Clarke Centennial Fellow PHD, New York University: Stern School of Business MBA, University of Houston: Madrid School of Business, Spain JD, Sophia University, Bulgaria -- with Honors Dr. Violina Rindova is the Ralph B. Thomas Professor of Business and the Ambassador Clarke Centennial Fellow at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on the market and organizational processes through which firms build and maintain competitive advantage, create intangible assets, and discover and shape new market opportunities.

She has taught strategic management at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD levels on the faculty of University of Washington, University of Maryland, and University of Texas at Austin. Her executive teaching experience spans executive groups around the globe, including France, Switzerland, Korea, and Japan. She teaches the Strategic Management course in the MEMBA program in Mexico City, and has recently developed an elective course on strategic and business model innovation. She is a recipient of multiple grants and awards, including recent awards for Research Excellence from the McCombs School of Business (2009), the “Thought Leadership” from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management (2009), and the award for outstanding scholarly contribution from Strategic Organization journal (2012).

Dr. Rindova has written on a variety of topics related to the dynamic aspects of competitive advantage, the role of the media in shaping perceptions of firms, the accumulation of intangible assets based on such perceptions, and the processes through which firms create and pursue market opportunities. Her research on the role of the media in markets has been featured in the Boston Globe, The Economist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Her case studies and articles have appeared in the premier management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. She has also served as an Associated Editor for the top theoretical journal in management The Academy of Management Review.