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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.