Goran Calic
Associate Professor, Strategic Management

Goran Calic is the Entrepreneurship Leadership Chair and Associate Professor of Strategy at McMaster University, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in economics, and a Post Doc. in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Purdue. His work on organizational innovation was awarded the Max Henri Boisot Award. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Small Business Economics, Nature: Scientific Reports, PLOS One, British Medical Journal: Open, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Previously Calic served as Director of McMaster’s MBA programs. During this time he implemented a redesign of the first year MBA curriculm. From 2025 to 2026, Calic held a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School.