Claudine Gartenberg

Claudine Gartenberg is Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Claudine’s research focuses on corporate purpose and employee compensation, examining how these shape organizational performance and strategy. More recently, she’s studied how different corporate owners, including hedge funds and private equity firms, approach these fundamental decisions about purpose, pay, and competitive strategy with the goal of better understanding how ownership and governance choices influence both firm performance and internal organization. Her work is published in leading journals including Management Science, Organization Science, and Review of Economic Studies. She serves as Senior Editor at both Organization Science and Strategy Science, and was formerly Associate Editor at Management Science. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Associated Faculty at Penn’s Institute of Law and Economics. Her expertise bridges academia and practice, appearing in outlets like Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

She holds a D.B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar (top 5%) and received the Wyss Award for excellence in doctoral research, and a B.A. in Physics with honors from Harvard College. Before academia, she was Director of Energy Services at Sapient Corporation, where she led consulting engagements for Fortune 500 clients including PG&E, Chevron, and Wells Fargo.