Victoria Sevcenko

Victoria Sevcenko

Assistant Professor of Strategy

INSEAD · Singapore

Victoria Sevcenko presenting at the Ghoshal Conference

I am an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD studying how firms build and organize their workforces as technology and labor markets change. Using large-scale workforce data and field experiments, I examine hiring, incentives, employee mobility, remote work, and how AI changes the demand for skills. Across these projects, I develop evidence relevant to talent strategy, organization design, and workforce transformation.

Research interests
Workforce strategy; hiring and incentives; employee mobility; remote work; AI and skill demand; organization design

Research

Journal articles

How Do Firms Appropriate Value from Employees with Transferable Skills? A Study of the Appropriation Puzzle in Actively Managed Mutual Funds

Victoria Sevcenko & Sendil Ethiraj · Organization Science 29(5), 775–795 · 2018

Journal articleAccepted manuscript (PDF)

Surplus Division Between Labor and Capital: A Review and Research Agenda

Victoria Sevcenko, Lynn Wu, Aleksandra Kacperczyk & Sendil Ethiraj · Academy of Management Annals 16(1), 334–390 · 2022

Journal article

Papers under review

Team Incentives in the Gig Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Victoria Sevcenko, Panos Mavrokonstantis, Ruike Zhang & Raphael Nehmer · Under review at Organization Science

AwardsWinner, SMS Annual Conference Research Methods Paper Prize (2025); Runner-up, SMS Strategic Human Capital IG Best Paper Prize (2025)

How Generative AI Adoption Alters the Demand for Cognitive and Social Skills Within Roles: A Skill-Centric Analysis

Piyush Gulati, Arianna Marchetti, Victoria Sevcenko & Phanish Puranam · revised 2026 version · Under review at Strategic Management Journal

arXiv recordCurrent paper (PDF)Earlier INSEAD version

Working papers

Office at Offsite: How Temporary Colocation Shapes Communication in an All-Remote Organization

Victoria Sevcenko, Charles Ayoubi, Sujin Jang & Prithwiraj Choudhury · INSEAD Working Paper 2024/39

AwardsThird Place, Wharton People Analytics Conference White Paper Competition (2025); Finalist, SMS Best Conference Paper Prize (2021); Nominated for the EGOS Best Paper Award (2023)

Working-paper pageWorking paper (PDF)

When to Put the Best to Rest? The Trade-off Between Star Human Capital and Organizational Adaptation

Victoria Sevcenko

AwardsWilliam H. Newman Award for Best Dissertation Paper, AOM (2019); STR Distinguished Paper Award, AOM (2019); Strategic Human Capital IG Best Paper Award, SMS (2019)

Proceedings article

Radical Technological Change and the Specialist–Generalist Tension: How Uncertainty and Competition Shape Skill Demand

Tianyu He, Karin Hoisl, Victoria Sevcenko & Tiancheng Wang

Abstract

Task Complexity, Doctor Experience, and the Value of Supervisors: Evidence from an Emergency Department

Miguel Espinosa, David Kryscynski, Victoria Sevcenko & Sergio Prada

Abstract

Interdependent Agendas in Sustainability: Analyzing the Trade-offs in Firm Decarbonization and Workforce Diversity

Sukti Ghosh, Victoria Sevcenko & Jasjit Singh

Abstract

Other research

Reproducibility in Management Science

Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes & the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration · Management Science 70(3), 1343–1356 · 2024

Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

Journal articleOpen manuscript (PDF)

Selected awards

  • Strategic Management JournalOutstanding Reviewer Award · 2022, 2024
  • Organization ScienceOutstanding Reviewer Award · 2024
  • INSEADCertificate of Recognition for MBA Teaching Excellence · 2021–2026
  • Academy of Management, STR DivisionWiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award Finalist · 2019

Practitioner articles

AI & Jobs: Are Companies Prepared for the Workforce Revolution?

Andy J. Yap, Victoria Sevcenko & Phanish Puranam · INSEAD Knowledge · 14 May 2026

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AI & Jobs: What Workers Can Do to Protect Themselves

Phanish Puranam, So Yeon Chun, Winnie Jiang & Victoria Sevcenko · INSEAD Knowledge · 4 May 2026

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ChatGPT and the Future of Business Education

Phanish Puranam, Pushan Dutt, Phebo Wibbens, Anton S. Ovchinnikov, Victoria Sevcenko, Theodoros Evgeniou & Philip M. Parker · INSEAD Knowledge · 1 February 2023

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Teaching

Courses

People Analytics

INSEAD MBA elective

2023–present

Reimagining Organizations

INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives

2024–present

Jardines Program

INSEAD Executive Programs

2024

Strategy, Structure and Incentives

INSEAD MBA elective

2019–present

Competitive Strategy Research B

INSEAD PhD core course

2022–present

Organizing for the Future

INSEAD MBA elective

2023–2024

Org 2.0: People Analytics

INSEAD MBA elective

2019–2022

Special Topics in Strategy

INSEAD PhD elective

2020–present

Teaching cases

Hiring at OmniCorp

Victoria Sevcenko · INSEAD Teaching Case · 2023

Incentivizing Drivers at Grab: Social Embeddedness in the Gig Economy

Victoria Sevcenko & Anne Yang · INSEAD Teaching Case · 2021

Case page

En Classe: Aligning Incentives in the Public School System across Democratic Republic of Congo

Victoria Sevcenko, Daan Stolk & Laura Heely · INSEAD Teaching Case · 2021

Case page

Advising and service

PhD advising

  • Devanshee ShuklaDissertation Co-Chair with Jasjit Singh · Strategy · expected 2027
  • Tiancheng WangCommittee Member · Strategy · expected 2028
  • Sukti GhoshDissertation Co-Chair with Jasjit Singh · Singapore Management University, 2025
  • Piyush GulatiCommittee Member · University College London, 2025
  • Hang-Jun ChoCommittee Member · Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2023
  • Xi KangDissertation Co-Chair with Phanish Puranam · Vanderbilt University, 2022

Editorial and academic service

  • Administrative Science QuarterlyEditorial Board · 2025–present
  • Organization ScienceEditorial Board · 2022–present
  • Strategic Management JournalEditorial Board · 2020–present
  • Academy of ManagementSTR Research Committee · 2022–present
  • Strategic Management SocietyAssociate Program Chair, Knowledge & Innovation IG · 2025

Education and CV

Education

  • London Business SchoolPhD, Strategy and Entrepreneurship · 2018
  • London School of Economics and Political ScienceMSc, Economics & Management · 2012
  • Imperial College Business SchoolMSc, Management · 2011
  • University of WarwickBSc, Politics, Philosophy and Economics · 2010

The full curriculum vitae includes conference presentations, workshops, and additional service.

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Contact

INSEAD
1 Ayer Rajah Avenue
Singapore 138676
victoria.sevcenko@insead.edu