Samina Karim is a strategy professor and consultant. Her work focuses on organization design, acquisitions and alliances, and innovation through reconfiguration of resources and activities.

Samina is Professor and Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Northeastern University’s D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Samina currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) which is the largest group of Strategy scholars worldwide, and as President of the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC).

In 2016 she served as the Chair for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of SMS, and in 2020 as the Division Chair for the Strategic Management (STR) Division of the Academy of Management. Prior to joining Northeastern, Samina taught at Boston University for thirteen years and earned degrees from the University of Michigan (Ph.D. Strategy; MA Economics), Harvard University (MA Education), and Cornell University (BS Electrical Engineering), and worked for Hewlett-Packard Co.

In her spare time, she is passionate about volunteer service, science fiction, space (non-fiction), fast cars, and strategy board games.