Natalya Vinokurova

Natalya Vinokurova is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated cum laude from Harvard College, where she studied Psychology, and she received her MPhil and PhD in Business Administration from the NYU Stern School. Her dissertation won the first prize from the Industry Studies Association, an honorable mention for the Grigor McLelland Award from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, and was a finalist for the Wiley-Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management.

Professor Vinokurova’s research focuses on the evolution of decision-making processes in fragmented systems at the intersection of the domains of business history and strategy. Her research has been published in top academic journals, including Business History, Enterprise and Society, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. She has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Philip B. Scranton Prize for Best Article in Enterprise and Society and Most Novel Research Award from the Behavioral Strategy Division of the Strategic Management Society.

Professor Vinokurova currently serves as an editorial board member for Business History and Organization Science, a reviewer for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal as well as a chair of the Philip B. Scranton Prize Committee at the Business History Conference and as a member of the New Members Committee for the Management History Division of the Academy of Management.

Professor Vinokurova teaches strategy in the core MBA program and a workshop on analyzing business cases for the MBA and Executive MBA students at Wharton. She received numerous teaching awards including the designation of Top 40 Business Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants, the “Tough but we’ll thank you in five years” core curriculum teaching award as well as two “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” core curriculum teaching awards.

Awards and Honors

• Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
• Philip B. Scranton Prize for Best Article in Enterprise and Society for “How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds”, 2019
• Core Curriculum Teaching Award “Tough but we’ll thank you in five years”, 2018
• Top 40 Business Professors Under 40, Poets & Quants, 2018
• Core Curriculum Teaching Award “Goes above and beyond the call of duty”, 2017
• Best Conference Paper Award Nomination, Strategic Management Society, 2015
• Most Novel Research Award, Behavioral Strategy Division of the Strategic Management Society, 2015
• Core Curriculum Teaching Award “Goes above and beyond the call of duty”, 2015
• Finalist, Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy & Strategy (“The 2008 Mortgage Crisis as a Failure of Analogical Reasoning”), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2013
• Honorable Mention, Grigor McClelland Award, Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, 2012
• 1st Prize, Industry Studies Dissertation Award, 2012
• Harold W. MacDowell Award, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2012
• Best Paper Award in Strategy, Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London, 2011
• C.W. Nichols Fellowship, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2010

Work experience

• The Wharton School Assistant Professor of Management
• Harvard Business School Research Associate
• Capital One Analyst
• Mercer Management Consulting Analyst