IAN C. MACMILLAN

Director
Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Ian C. MacMillan is the Director of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center and Fred Sullivan Professor of Entrepreneurship. MacMillan joined the Center in June of 1986, after having served as Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at NYU. He also taught at Columbia University, Northwestern University and the University of South Africa.

MacMillan has published numerous articles and books on entrepreneurship organizational politics, corporate new ventures and strategy formulation. His articles have appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Studies, Harvard Business Review, The Sloan Management Review, The Journal of Business Venturing (of which he was the founding editor) among others.

Prior to joining the academic world, MacMillan was a chemical engineer, and gained experience in gold and uranium mines, chemical and explosives factories, oil refineries, soap and food manufacturers and the South African Atomic Energy Board. He has been a director of several companies in the travel and import/export business in South Africa, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan.

MacMillan has extensive consulting experience, having worked with such companies as DuPont, General Electric, GTE, IBM, Citibank, Metropolitan Life, Chubb & Son, American Re-Insurance, Matsushita (Japan), Olympus (Japan), L.G. Group (Korea), Texas Instruments, KPMG, Fluor Daniel, Commercial Union General Insurance (UK).

He is co-author with Rita Gunther McGrath of the recently published Harvard University Press book "The entrepreneurial mindset: Strategies for continuously creating advantage in an age of uncertainty"