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Anita McGahan

Professor

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

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  • Professor
    Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

BIO

Anita McGahan is University Professor, Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, where she holds the George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society. Her research is focused on private entrepreneurship in the public interest. She has written on industry change, sustainable competitive advantage and the establishment of new fields. An area of particular interest is global health and the diffusion of knowledge across international boundaries.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
  • Full Professor (tenured) of Strategic Management
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2007 - present
  • Senior Institute Associate
    Harvard University, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Cambridge, United States2002 - present
  • Visiting Professor. Sandra Dawson Professorship
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2018 - 2018
  • Instructor in course on global health offered to Harvard undergraduates on site at the Great Lakes University of Kenya in Kisumu
    Harvard University, Cambridge, United States2012 - 2012
  • Associate Dean, Research (ADR)
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2010 - 2015
  • Rotman Chair in Management
    University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada2008 - 2019
  • Visiting Professor, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States2008 - 2009
  • Visiting Professor, Strategic Management and International Busines
    London Business School, London, United Kingdom2007 - 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Strategy
    Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia2005 - 2005
  • Fellow, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
    Harvard University, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Cambridge, United States2001 - 2002
  • Full Professor (tenured), Strategy & Policy
    Boston University, Boston, United States2000 - 2007
  • Associate Professor, Competition & Strategy
    Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, United States1996 - 2000
  • Visiting Scholar, Strategy
    Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Stanford, United States1996 - 1997
  • Assistant Professor, Competition & Strategy
    Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, United States1991 - 1996
  • Visiting Professor
    Boston University, Boston, United States2013 - 2014

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Advisor to senior leadership team
    Digitas Corporation, Boston, United States2001 - 2002
  • Senior Vice President
    Digitas Corporation, Digital Strategy Group, Boston, United States2000 - 2000
  • Consulting
    Independent, Cambridge & Boston, United States1991 - 2000
  • Consultant
    McKinsey & Company (United States), New York, United States1986 - 1988
  • Financial Analyst
    Morgan Stanley (United States), Management Information Systems, New York, United States1982 - 1984
  • Corporate Modeling Analyst and Reinsurance Pricing Analyst
    Prudential Financial (United States), Actuarial Department, Newark, United States1982 - 1983

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. and M.A. in Business Economics
    Harvard University, Cambridge, United States1988 - 1990
  • M.B.A.
    Harvard University, Cambridge, United States1984 - 1986
  • B.A., Humanities
    Northwestern University, Evanston, United States1978 - 1982

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Institute for Pandemics (IfP)
  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)
  • School of Cities