Claudine Gartenberg

I study corporations and other organizations: why they exist, how they govern collective action, and what enables them to create value. My work connects theories of the firm, social choice, and firms as subsocieties with empirical research on corporate purpose, ownership, compensation, and inequality.

Across this work, I ask how people with different interests and values organize around shared problems—and what leaders can do to make that cooperation work. AI brings new urgency to these questions: how does it change what organizations are for, where judgment and authority reside, and the institutions through which we work and cooperate? As AI systems become more general and capable, I am interested in what remains distinctive about human organizations, and how their purpose, governance, and capacity for collective choice may need to change.

I serve as Senior Editor at Organization Science and Strategy Science, coedit the special issue on AI-Enabled Frontiers in Organizational Science, and am a member of the Organization Science AI Task Force. I co-organize the Wharton Corporate Strategy and Innovation Conference and previously served as an Associate Editor at Management Science. Before joining Wharton, I taught at NYU Stern. I hold a DBA and MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in physics¹ from Harvard University.