Leader in Competitiveness Research Appointed at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management
DATELINE: TORONTO Aug. 27
A noted expert on strategic issues of competitive advantage, industry evolution and financial performance has joined the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Anita McGahan will be a professor of strategic management.
Prof. McGahan's research focuses on models of industry evolution and the evolution of competitive advantage. She is currently pursuing a long-standing interest in the inception of new industries, and in the implications for comparative advantage and international development. The focus of her current work is on the process of scaling up organizational models in the pharmaceutical, medical devices and health-delivery sectors of emerging economies. She is the author of a 2004 HBS Press book called "How Industries Evolve," and was co-editor in 2004 of the 21st volume of "Advances in Strategic Management," which deals with issues of industry change. Prof. McGahan is on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and Strategic Organization.
"We are delighted to welcome such a highly regarded researcher and teacher to the Rotman School and we look forward to her contributions to the life of the school in the forthcoming years," says Prof. Peter Pauly, Vice-Dean, Research and Academic Resources at the Rotman School.
In addition to her position at the Rotman School, Prof. McGahan is a Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University, where she collaborates on research with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. She is also currently the Senior Economist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health. In 2001, she was named by CIO Magazine as one of five international experts on the strategic use of technology. She holds PhD and MA degrees in Business Economics from Harvard University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BA from Northwestern University. She spent several years at McKinsey & Company and at Morgan Stanley & Company. Between 2000 and 2007, she was Professor of Strategy & Policy and Everett Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Boston University School of Management. Previously she was on the faculty at Harvard Business School. She has also served on the boards of several charities, scientific associations and a corporation.
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