Federica DE STEFANO

Federica De Stefano is an Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at HEC Paris.

Her research focuses on employee mobility across and within organizations. One stream of her work examines the relationship between employee mobility and firm-level outcomes. Her projects investigate the effects of worker turnover and managerial mobility on firm performance in the restaurant industry. She is also studying how multi-business firms redeploy human capital across businesses and countries. In her second stream of research, she examines the effects of employee mobility on individual career outcomes. She is currently examining how employee internal mobility shapes their career success within organizations.

Professor De Stefano is also a Senior Fellow of Wharton People Analytics. She serves as elected Representative-at-Large for the  Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) and is a member of the Editorial Board of Human Resource Management Review. She has been awarded with several research grants, including a Marie Curie grant from the European Commission.

Prior to joining HEC Paris, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 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).