Madeleine Rauch

Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business

Bye Fellow and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College

PhD (European University Viadrina)

My research interests include strategising in extreme contexts, and the strategy process more broadly. Often, I conduct research in extreme contexts and challenges faced by people both working and living in challenging contexts, such as undocumented in the US, medical professionals during the pandemic and soldiers in warzones like Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen. My work has appeared in Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Strategic Organization, and Harvard Business Review.

I’m a member of the Strategy and International Business subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, and along with my colleagues I actively contribute to both academic and business communities.

Madeleine Rauch.

Professional experience

Madeleine Rauch is an Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge. Previously, she was at Stanford and Copenhagen Business School before going Cambridge.

Dr Rauch’s research interests include topics associated with strategising in extreme contexts, and the strategy process more broadly. She conducts research in extreme contexts and challenges faced by people both working and living in challenging contexts, such as undocumented in the US, medical professionals during the pandemic and soldiers in war-zones like Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and South Sudan.

Her research has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Strategic Organization, and HBR, among others, and has been featured in The Stanford Daily, FAZ, the ASA blog and CBS Wire, and has won multiple awards in the past years (eg Best Paper Award OMT at AoM, and Best Paper Award at SMS, among others). She is also on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives and Strategic Organization. Prior to academia, she worked as an HR Manager in the automotive industry in Germany and Mexico.

Previous appointments

Dr Rauch was at Stanford University and Copenhagen Business School prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School.

Publications

Selected publications

Awards and honours

News and insights

Madeleine Rauch.

Madeleine Rauch, Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business, tracks her journey from Europe to Cambridge Judge Business School – via war torn places such as the Yemen and Afghanistan- as she brings her field research into human stress and strategy in extreme conditions into the MBA classroom. This article is part of our MBA Faculty Spotlight series.…

Warzone medic.

Leadership and organisational behaviour

Silence is golden: coping with emotions in war zones

Study of medical workers for Médecins Sans Frontières in Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq finds that silence is a key element in performing life-saving work in brutal environments.

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