Melanie Milovac

Melanie Milovac is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD.

Professor Milovac research and teaching interests include psychological factors that foster innovation (growth mindset, lean entrepreneurship and design thinking), effective matchmaking between entrepreneurs and stakeholders, storytelling and sensemaking (pitching and communication), high-performance founding team compositions and dynamics, leading board meetings, assessing cultural fit of first hires and managing client relationships (communities of co-creators, early adopters etc.).

Milovac research has received numerous awards and grants from entrepreneurship organisations including Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in the UK). Professor Milovac teaches the New Business Ventures course in the MBA, Master in Management programme and several open enrolment programmes and non-degree programmes, e.g. at Sorbonne University.

Professor Milovac holds a PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organisation from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Heidelberg. Prior to joining INSEAD, she held positions as a predoctoral and postdoctoral fellow at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and the Washington University in St. Louis, and received early training at Columbia Business School's Behavioural Lab.