Emilie Feldman is a corporate strategy and governance expert. Professor Feldman focuses on the role that spinoffs, divestitures, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play in corporate reconfiguration, the internal functioning of multi-business firms, and the impact that large shareholders have on strategic decision-making and outcomes.
Professor Feldman has been retained as an expert witness and has testified in depositions and arbitration.
Publications and editorial roles
Professor Feldman is the author of Divestitures: Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation (McGraw Hill, 2022). She also publishes articles in leading management and strategy journals, notably the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review.
A current senior editor of Organization Science, Professor Feldman has also served on several academic editorial boards. The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post have cited her research.
Research awards
Among her research accolades, Professor Feldman has received two Distinguished Paper Awards from the Academy of Management. The Strategic Management Society (SMS) named her coauthored paper “Activist-Impelled Divestitures and Shareholder Value” as Best Conference Paper at the Society’s annual meeting. SMS honored her with its Emerging Scholar Award, in recognition of research expected to make fundamental contributions to the study of knowledge and durable organizational success.
Teaching in M&A and corporate strategy
At the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Feldman teaches courses on M&A, divestitures, corporate strategy, and corporate governance to undergraduate, M.B.A., law, and executive education students. A nine-time winner of the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, she has also received the Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award.
Executive education and consulting
Professor Feldman is the academic director of three Wharton School executive education programs. These are the Global C-Suite Program, an online executive education initiative to help senior executives build leadership skills for C-suite roles in global organizations; the Mergers and Acquisitions Program, Wharton’s flagship open-enrollment program in the field; and the M&A and Corporate Development Strategies Program, designed for business leaders, senior executives, and financial analysts seeking to leverage M&A in their roles.
Professor Feldman also consults to corporations and professional services companies on a range of corporate governance and strategy topics.