Caroline Flammer

Caroline Flammer is an Associate Professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Her research interests are in competitive strategy at the intersection of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, impact investing, and innovation. In particular, her work examines whether and how companies’ social and environmental engagement — in short, their corporate social responsibility (CSR) — contributes to their competitiveness. Caroline serves as Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and is on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal. At Questrom, she serves as the Academic Director of the Social Impact MBA program and is the PhD Coordinator for the Strategy & Innovation Department.

Before joining Boston University, she was a faculty at Ivey Business School and a postdoctoral researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Learn about her research on her website.