Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship & General Management
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Stewart Thornhill, Executive Director of the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business.
A leader in executive education, Dr. Thornhill is Faculty Director for the Maple Leaf Leadership Academy, Industry Canada's Executive Learning Initiative, and the ATCO Strategic Leadership Program. Other corporate clients include the Toronto Dominion Bank, Bell Canada, Newalta, Magellan Aerospace and the Globe and Mail. He also works with entrepreneurs leading Canada's fastest growing companies through the annual QUANTUMSHIFT™ Executive Development Program.
Dr. Thornhill's research interests include strategic execution, leadership, competitive strategy, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in several top management journals and he has published more than 20 teaching cases. His 'On the Case' series is a regular feature in the Financial Post Magazine. He also appears regularly on BNN's The Pitch, a live weekly broadcast that links entrepreneurs to industry experts and venture capitalists. Professor Thornhill serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, and the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. He has also served as a Director of the Ontario Telemedicine Network and the Shad Valley entrepreneurship learning initiative.
Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Thornhill belonged to the faculty of Entrepreneurial Studies at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto. He has taught Strategy and Entrepreneurship as a visiting professor at universities in France, Germany, Mexico, Slovenia and Argentina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and also holds a B.Sc. (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA with a concentration in Finance. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, he worked as a manufacturing engineer and a radio journalist.
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