Gideon Markman

Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Markman has authored scores of articles. His landmark work was featured in Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Nature, and other business publications around the world.

As a consultant, management coach, and business professor, Markman has worked with companies as diverse as Deutsche Telekom, Bosch Siemens, ChoicePoint, Worldspan, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and scores of family businesses and young startups. His pioneering concepts such as "factor-market rivalry," "resource-based competition," "cascading effects," "niching and super nichers," interfirm hostility," and "organic coalitions" are changing how companies compete.  As a management speaker, Markman addresses diverse audiences including executive boards, managing directors, top management teams, venture capitalists, investors, technologists, futurists, and other business leaders. Markman also advises on public policy matters related to industrial competitiveness, innovation, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship.

Markman is an associate professor of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Colorado State University.  He was an associate professor at the Terry College of Business (University of Georgia), and an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Markman is a member of the Academy of Management, Technology Transfer Society, and the Strategic Management Society, and his research appears in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, and Academy of Management Perspectives. Markman is an Associate Editor with the Journal of Technology Transfer, and an editorial board member with the Journal of Business Venturing, and Journal of Management Studies. Markman is currently writing on competitive dynamics and pursuing further research on this topic. He lives in Boulder County with his wife, Veronique, and two sons, Oz and Eytan.