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Ju­lia Bod­ner

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Subjects
Strategy Management Organisation Employment Quantitative methods Medicine

Primary research areas

Cor­por­ate strategy and or­gan­iz­a­tion design
My re­search ex­am­ines cor­por­ate strategy, i.e., how or­gan­iz­a­tions define their bound­ar­ies through ac­quis­i­tions and di­vestit­ures, us­ing large-scale quant­it­at­ive data and state-of-the-art eco­no­met­ric meth­ods.
Em­ploy­ee out­comes
I fo­cus on how stra­tegic de­cisions af­fect em­ploy­ees, par­tic­u­larly how they are paid and how they move with­in and across firms. To do so, I lever­age linked em­ploy­er–em­ploy­ee mi­cro-data from pop­u­la­tion re­gis­tries in Fin­land and Den­mark.
Health­care or­gan­iz­a­tion
I am par­tic­u­larly curi­ous about the role of cor­por­ate strategy and or­gan­iz­a­tion­al design in wo­men’s health care, e.g., in­vest­ig­at­ing fer­til­ity out­comes, ma­ter­nity care, and con­di­tions such as en­do­met­ri­os­is us­ing large-scale health re­gis­tries.

Cor­por­ate strategy and people

Julia Bodner is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. She is particularly interested in understanding how major strategic decisions, such as acquisitions and divestitures, affect people.  

Julia's research investigates how changes in the corporate strategy or organization design translate into consequences for employees and, in some work, for patients in the healthcare sector using large-scale employee and healthcare micro-data. Her work has been published in leading management journals, supported by competitive research funding, and contributes to broader academic and public conversations on corporate strategy and healthcare organizations.  

Alongside her research, she teaches at the intersection of people and strategy at the MBA, graduate, and executive levels and has been recognized for her contributions to teaching. Prior to joining CBS, Julia received her PhD from INSEAD. 

Recent research projects

Chain own­er­ship and fer­til­ity clin­ic per­form­ance

In this pro­ject, we ex­amined how ac­quis­i­tions by fer­til­ity chains af­fect per­form­ance of IVF clin­ics in the US. We found that after be­ing ac­quired, clin­ics in­creased IVF cycles by 27.2% and im­proved suc­cess rates by 13.6%, while ad­opt­ing prac­tices that re­duced high­er-risk mul­tiple births and in­creased singleton births.

Or­gan­iz­a­tion design and dia­gnost­ic de­cision-mak­ing: Evid­ence from en­do­met­ri­os­is

In this pro­ject we study how or­gan­iz­a­tion­al design and sci­entif­ic know­ledge jointly shape dia­gnost­ic de­cision-mak­ing in primary care. Us­ing ex­cep­tion­ally rich Dan­ish re­gistry data and fo­cus­ing on en­do­met­ri­os­is, a com­mon but per­sist­ently un­der­dia­gnosed con­di­tion in wo­men, we ex­am­ine how in­cent­ives and prac­tice struc­tures in­flu­ence gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­ers’ re­fer­ral de­cisions, learn­ing, and dia­gnost­ic ac­cur­acy.

Pub­lic de­vel­op­ment sup­port and tal­ent at­trac­tion: Evid­ence from Fin­land

In a Fin­land-based pro­ject on in­nov­a­tion fund­ing, we draw on rich re­gistry data and de­tailed re­cords on in­nov­a­tion grants to bet­ter un­der­stand what pub­lic busi­ness sup­port changes in­side SMEs. We study how these pro­grams in­flu­ence who firms hire and re­tain tal­ent, and how work­force shifts con­nect to in­nov­a­tion and in­ter­na­tion­al growth.