She received a Ph.D. in strategic management from Purdue University, has held visiting appointments at Dartmouth College and Purdue, and served on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo. Her research on how firms develop and use capabilities has been published in leading outlets such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Management. She is Senior Associate Editor at Journal of Management and on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. She has long been active in SMS, with involvement in both the Strategy Process and Competitive Strategy Interest Groups and currently Co-Chairs the Strategy Research Funding Programs. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a mining engineer and as a corporate banker, in North America and in Europe.