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. She studies how organizations and individuals within organizations create and appropriate value through strategic partnering. She has examined these issues in a variety of contexts that involved upper echelon leaders, teams, firms, universities, and non-profit organizations. A number of her current projets seek to understand how the two-sided nature of partnerships enable and constraint partner choice and the penalties associated with miss-matching.