Oana Branzei

Professor, Strategy & Sustainability
Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Strategy, Social Change

Oana Branzei

Oana Branzei is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Ivey, the Director of the Sustainability Certificate Program, and the founder, convener and host faculty of the Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy. 

Oana’s research interests are at the intersection of strategy and sustainability, including the pro-social foundations, forms, and functions of business as agents of positive social change and the relational micro-processes of value creation, capture and distribution. She leads major research initiatives on positive social change, social enterprise, sustainable communities, and cross-sector partnerships. At Ivey, Oana has taught in the HBA, MBA, MSc, EMBA, PhD, and Ivey Academy executive education programs. 

Oana is a field editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Management and Academy of Management Learning and Education.