Goran Calic

Associate Professor, Strategic Management

0000-0002-8226-1153

Goran Calic is the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy at McMaster University. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in economics from Purdue University. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Nature, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Previously Calic served as Director of McMaster’s MBA programs. From 2024 to 2025, Calic held a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He is the founder of NSDA Corp, a company that develops defense-in-depth AI architectures for the most demanding, highly regulated, safety-critical industries, such as nuclear energy.