Hana Milanov is a Professor of International Entrepreneurship at TUM School of Management, the Technical University of Munich since 2012 and served as TUM’s Senior Vice President of Internationalization and Alumni from 2014 till 2017. She is a member of the Board of the Center of Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) and serves as the Academic Director of the TUM Executive MBA in Innovation and Business Creation. Prior to her employment at TUM, she was a Professor at IE Business School in Madrid. She completed her doctoral studies in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in the USA.
Her research interests lie in understanding how entrepreneurs effectively acquire resources and how this influences opportunity exploitation and final performance at home and abroad, with an increasing focus on gender dynamics. The research contexts she studied range from venture capital, public family firms, high technology companies, crowdfunding, and microentrepreneurs across different countries. Her work was published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, and Industrial and Corporate Change. Prof. Milanov is experienced in teaching in undergraduate, MBA, Masters, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. programs across different countries (Australia, Croatia, Germany, Spain, USA) and working with corporate clients. She enjoys interactive teaching and as a supporter of experiential and action-based learning, has actively developed teaching materials, contributed to teaching conferences, and achieved recognition for outstanding teaching.
“Like a moth to a flame” – We integrate multiple data sources to investigate how business angels’ popularity and media activity influences start-ups’ access to professional investors and funding.
“The Gender of Family business” – In cooperation with IE Business School, we investigate the causes and consequences of gender participation in the governance of publically listed family businesses across the USA and selected EU countries.
“Go abroad to win at home” – we investigate why and how early internationalization influences young venture capital firms’ domestic market positions.
“Is family business social responsibility really “corporate”?” – In cooperation with IE Business School, we investigate how the business-owning family’s private support of social causes through family foundations influences the CSR practices of publically listed family businesses across the USA.
