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Ethan Mollick
Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Assistant Professor of Management


Education

PhD, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2010; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2004; BA, Harvard University, 1997


Other Positions

Co-founder and COO, eMeta Corporation; Analyst, Mercer Management Consulting; Consultant to DARPA, General Mills, and other organizations on innovation and entrepreneurship

Publications
Ethan Mollick (2011), People and Process, Suits and Innovators: The Role of Individuals in Firm Performance, Forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal
Ethan Mollick, David Edery (2008), Changing the Game: How Videogames are Transforming the Future of Business, Financial Times/Pearson Press
Ethan Mollick (2006), Establishing Moore’s Law, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 28 (3): 62-75
Ethan Mollick (2005), Working with the Underground, Sloan Management Review
Ethan Mollick (2005), Engines of the Underground: The Elite-Kiddie Divide, ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Issue 25, Vol. 2

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In The News
Business-school research: Game changers, The Economist, 07/2011
Firms Turn to Online Games for Recruiting, CNBC, 06/2011
Enough With 'Call of Duty,' Answer the Call in Room 417, Wall Street Journal, 06/2011
Something for the weekend, Financial Times, 06/2011
“Mixed Messages on Small Business Optimism” Entrepreneur, 05/2011
“Surviving the startup founder-to-CEO transition” CNN Money, 04/2011

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Knowledge@Wharton
'Brain Drain' or 'Brain Exchange': What Is the Cost When Immigrant Entrepreneurs Go Home? 06/22/2011
Why Middle Managers May Be the Most Important People in Your Company 05/25/2011

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Honors And Awards
Heizer Award for Best Dissertation in Entrepreneurship, Finalist, 2011
Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award, 2011
Graduate Management Council Ideas to Innovation Challenge, 3rd Place, 2011
American Library Association’s “Top Ten Business Books of 2009”, 2009
Kauffman Dissertation Fellow, 2007

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Mollick Ethan

Ethan  Mollick
 2015 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 898-6361
Fax: (215) 898-0401
emollick@wharton.upenn.edu

Personal Website

Research Interests:
Entrepreneurship in innovative industries; industry evolution; role of individuals in firm success; distributed and user innovation; self-organization among individuals; entrepreneurial strategy