Overview

Federica De Stefano is an Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at HEC Paris. She is also a Senior Fellow of Wharton People Analytics and serves as elected Representative at Large for the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).

Her research focuses on how organizations can create and capture value from human capital. In studying this topic, she has developed three interrelated research streams. In her first stream, she examines the relationship between human capital deployment and value creation. She has conducted detailed research on the performance effects of planned turnover in the restaurant industry. In an ongoing project, she examines how organizations create value by redeploying human resources internally. A second stream of her research examines how and when employers and employees capture value from human capital. She is conducting research on the conditions under which higher-performing managers capture the value they generate through pay. In other projects, she analyzes how the allocation of new hires and internal transfers affects their promotion and compensation outcomes. Her third stream investigates how offering good-quality jobs—that is, jobs that provide employees with equitable rewards, job security, and safety—can be valuable to both firms and employees simultaneously. Theoretically, her research seeks to speak to the literatures on human resource management and strategic human capital. Empirically, much of her work is quantitative and based on field studies in organizational contexts in Europe and in the US.

She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, a M.Sc. in International Management, a BA in Management from Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), and a M.Sc. in Management Science and Corporate Management from Fudan University in Shanghai (China).