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Not to be confused with MacGruber.
Professor
Marc Gruber
Marc Gruber in 2017
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Munich
NationalityGerman
Academic background
EducationEconomy
Alma materUniversity of St. Gallen
ThesisErfolgsfaktoren des Wirtschaftens von KMU im Zeitablauf: dargestellt an Beispielen aus der deutschen Nahrungs- und Genussmittelindustrie (2000)
Doctoral advisorHans Jobst Pleitner
Andreas Grüner
Other advisorsDietmar Harhoff
Manfred Schwaiger
Academic work
DisciplineManagement
Sub-disciplineEntrepreneurship
Innovation and strategic management
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/entc/

Marc Gruber (born 1972 in Munich) is a management scholar and researcher specializing in technology commercialization. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at EPFL's College of Management of Technology.[1] In 2022, he was made Chief Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.[2] In 2016, he has been named among the five most influential researchers worldwide in entrepreneurship research.[3]

Career

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Gruber received a Master's degree in management from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in 1995. Staying at HSG, he wrote a PhD thesis on "Erfolgsfaktoren des Wirtschaftens von KMU im Zeitablauf: dargestellt an Beispielen aus der deutschen Nahrungs- und Genussmittelindustrie" (Success factors of SMEs over time: illustrated by examples from the German food and luxury food industry) and graduated in 2000.[4] He then joined the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) as senior researcher and lecturer, to establish the university's entrepreneurship center and to pursue his habilitation thesis.[5]

He obtained his habilitation from LMU's School of Management in 2005 for his research entitled "Marketingplanung von wagniskapitalfinanzierten Unternehmensgründungen – eine theoretische und empirische Analyse" (Marketing planning of venture capital-financed start-ups – a theoretical and empirical analysis).[6] During that time he was vice-director of the Institute of Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship and established LMU's Center for Entrepreneurship. He has held several visiting scholar posts at the Wharton School (2004), and at the University of Pennsylvania (1999 and 2004). He was also a visiting professor at the Business School of Imperial College London (2015).[7]

In 2005, Gruber joined EPF and since then has been the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC), first as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2008. Since 2011, Gruber has been a full professor at EPFL's College of Management of Technology. From 2017 to 2020, he was vice president for Innovation at EPFL.[1][8]

Research

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Where to Play: The Market Opportunity Navigator worksheets

Gruber's group focuses his research on the fields of entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, innovation, and strategic management.[9]

Together with Sharon Tal, he created the Market Opportunity Navigator, a tool that supports firms in market opportunity identification and exploitation.[10] The tool is used by more than 50,000 companies and has been adopted as the 4th tool in the lean start-up tool-set.[11]

Gruber's research was featured in several news outlets: Bilan,[12] Le Temps,[13] Voice of FinTech podcast,[14] and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.[15] From 2001 to 2003, he wrote for the column Start-Up for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[16]

Awards and distinctions

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He is the recipient of the TUM Research Excellence Award from the European Academy of Management (2012),[17] the Thought Leader Award of the Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management (2009, 2010, 2012),[18] and the Mentor Award of the Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management (2019).[19]

Gruber acted as an associate (2013–2016) and as deputy editor (2017–2020), then Editor-in-Chief (since 2022) at the Academy of Management Journal, the world's highest-ranked journal for empirical management research.[20]

He is a member of the Academy of Management,[21] and of the Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft.[22]

Selected works

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  • Gruber, Marc; MacMillan, Ian C.; Thompson, James D. (2013). "Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What Shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities Identified Before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?". Organization Science. 24 (1): 280–300. doi:10.1287/orsc.1110.0721. JSTOR 23362113.
  • Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Gruber, Marc (2011). "Darwinians, Communitarians, and Missionaries: The Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship". Academy of Management Journal. 54 (5): 935–957. doi:10.5465/amj.2009.0211.
  • Gruber, Marc; MacMillan, Ian C.; Thompson, James D. (2008). "Look Before You Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms". Management Science. 54 (9): 1652–1665. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1080.0877.
  • Gruber, Marc; Tal, Sharon (2017). Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities. Pearson. ISBN 9781292178929.

References

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  1. ^ a b "ETH Board appoints new members of the EPFL Senior Management". www.wbf.admin.ch. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Incoming Editors". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. ^ Gupta, Vishal K.; Ibrahim, Sajna; Guo, Grace; Markin, Erik (1 March 2016). "Entrepreneurship research in management and organizational studies: A contribution-based assessment of the literature". New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. 19 (1): 70–87. doi:10.1108/neje-19-01-2016-b005. ISSN 2574-8904.
  4. ^ Gruber, Marc. "Erfolgsfaktoren des Wirtschaftens von KMU im Zeitablauf : dargestellt an Beispielen aus der deutschen Nahrungs- und Genussmittelindustrie". slsp-hsg.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  5. ^ Albers, Sönke; Gassmann, Oliver (2011), "Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement", Handbuch Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, Wiesbaden: Gabler, pp. 3–20, doi:10.1007/978-3-8349-6746-6_1, ISBN 978-3-8349-2800-9, retrieved 23 July 2021
  6. ^ Gruber, Marc 1972– (25 November 2005). Marketingplanung von Unternehmensgründungen eine theoretische und empirische Analyse (1. Aufl ed.). Wiesbaden. ISBN 978-3-8350-0181-7. OCLC 162263869.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Brewer, Jeremi; Gibson, Stephen (2014). Necessity Entrepreneurs. Edward Elgar Publishin. pp. xi. doi:10.4337/9781781956182. ISBN 9781781956182.
  8. ^ Brown, Andrew D. (16 January 2020), Brown, Andrew D (ed.), "Identities in Organizations", The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations, Oxford University Press, pp. xx-31, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827115.013.59, ISBN 978-0-19-882711-5, retrieved 23 July 2021
  9. ^ "Research". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  10. ^ Marc & Sharon. "Where to Play | Market Opportunity Navigator". Where to Play. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Rising out of the crisis: Where to find new markets and customers". VentureBeat. 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Innover en période d'incertitudes grâce à une approche méthodologique". Bilan (in French). Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Nexthink, nouvelle licorne lausannoise de la tech". Le Temps (in French). 8 February 2021. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Where to Play?". Voice of FinTech. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  15. ^ Feldges, Dominik (20 June 2017). "Keine falschen Berührungsängste". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  16. ^ "F.A.Z.-Archiv: Suche". fazarchiv.faz.net. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  17. ^ "TUM Research Excellence Award | Peter Pribilla Foundation – TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute". www.professors.wi.tum.de. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Good thinking: Shah named 'Thought Leader' by Academy of Management — again". UW News. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  19. ^ "Awards and Recognition". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  20. ^ Gruber, Marc; de Leon, Nick; George, Gerard; Thompson, Paul (February 2015). "Managing by Design". Academy of Management Journal. 58 (1): 1–7. doi:10.5465/amj.2015.4001. ISSN 0001-4273.
  21. ^ "2019 Publication Awards". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  22. ^ "Mitgliederverzeichnis – vhbonline.de". www.vhbonline.org. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
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