Biography
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, Management Science, and the American Journal of Political Science.
Her work has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, such as the AOM Technology and Innovation Management Division Best Conference Paper Award and the HEC Foundation- Article of the Year Award. Denisa was a finalist for the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition and for the Wiley Blackwell Dissertation Award. She is also a Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellow.
Denisa severs regularly on the editorial review boards of top journals in the field (most recently, at the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Review). Over the years, she has served in various leadership roles for the research communities of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) and the Academy of Management (AOM). At the SMS, she worked with the Cooperative Strategies Interest Group, the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group and the Competitive Strategies Interest Group. At the AOM she served in the executive committees of the Strategic Management Division (STR) and the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) division.
At HEC Paris, she teaches courses in Technology, Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the PhD, MBA and Executive education programs.
Scientific articles
Management Science, Mars 2025, vol. 71, n° 3, pp 2170-2191, (in coll. with J. BERCOVITZ, V. MARES, M. P. FELDMAN)
Strategic Management Journal, June 2021, vol. 42, n° 6, pp 1184-1214, (in coll. with G. Chen, S. Huang, P. Meyer-Doyle)
Strategic Management Journal, October 2017, vol. 38, pp 1964-1985, (in coll. with O. CHATAIN)
Strategic Management Journal, January 2016, vol. 37, n° 1, pp 206-231, (in coll. with M. MOEEN, R. AGARWAL)
Strategic Management Journal, June 2013, vol. 34, n° 6, pp 644-665,
American Journal of Political Science, 2003, vol. 47, n° 1, pp 143-158, (in coll. with J. Scholz, M. Schneider, M. Lubell, M. Edwardsen)
International Politics, 2002, vol. 39, n° 2, (in coll. with A. Mungiu-Pippidi)
Proceedings
2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2023 , 2023 , 1 (E. Lizunova)
2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (E. LIZUNOVA)
2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2020 , 2020 , 1 (M. HETU, W. G. Mitchell)
2018 Academy of Management Meeting , 2018 , 1 (J. E. OXLEY)
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014
Mimeo , 2014
Mimeo , 2025
Scientific articles
Management Science, Mars 2025, vol. 71, n° 3, pp 2170-2191, (in coll. with J. BERCOVITZ, V. MARES, M. P. FELDMAN)
Strategic Management Journal, June 2021, vol. 42, n° 6, pp 1184-1214, (in coll. with G. Chen, S. Huang, P. Meyer-Doyle)
Strategic Management Journal, October 2017, vol. 38, pp 1964-1985, (in coll. with O. CHATAIN)
Strategic Management Journal, January 2016, vol. 37, n° 1, pp 206-231, (in coll. with M. MOEEN, R. AGARWAL)
Proceedings
2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2023 , 2023 , 1 (E. Lizunova)
2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (E. LIZUNOVA)
2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2020 , 2020 , 1 (M. HETU, W. G. Mitchell)
2018 Academy of Management Meeting , 2018 , 1 (J. E. OXLEY)
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016
Education
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Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA
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M.A in Political Science, Stony Brook University - USA
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B.S. in Sociology, University of Bucharest - Romania
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B.S. in Mathematics, University of Bucharest - Romania
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2018-2019 Department Head, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
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
Conference organisation
Awards & honors
- 2023 2023 Best Paper Award of the HEC Foundation for "Generalist versus specialist CEOs and acquisitions: Two-sided matching and the impact of CEO characteristics on firm outcomes" in Strategic Management Journal with Guoli Chen, Sterling Huang, Philipp Meyer-Doyle
- 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