---
id: "pisquared:interview/Guler-Isin"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Isin Guler"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/guler-isin"
date: "2025-12-12"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Isin Guler"]
summary: "Isin Guler is Professor of Strategy and the Sarah Graham Keenan Scholar at the Kenan-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina. In her research..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1148519949"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Isin Guler

Isin Guler, Professor of Strategy and the Sarah Graham Keenan Scholar, Kenan-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina · 12 December 2025

## About the guest

Isin Guler is Professor of Strategy and the Sarah Graham Keenan Scholar at the Kenan-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina. In her research, she examines issues related to innovation strategy and international expansion of Venture Capital firms and of entrepreneurial organizations. She also studies resource-allocation decisions for innovation, such as why Venture Capitalists and pharmaceutical firms take on and eventually terminate – or fail to terminate – investments in their portfolios. She’s recently been interested in how and when firms learn from failure. Isin holds a PhD and Master’s degree from the Wharton School and an undergraduate degree from the Middle East Technical University. She’s published in our leading journals, is an award-winning teacher, and holds important leadership positions in our journals and professional Associations.

## Related resources

- [Isin’s website at the University of North Carolina](https://isinguler.web.unc.edu/)
- [Isin’s profile on Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rIVv-psAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao/)
- [Isin’s early work on Venture investing and internationalization](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jibs.2009.35)
- [Isin’s recent paper on private ownership of entrepreneurial organizations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=rIVv-psAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=rIVv-psAAAAJ:O3NaXMp0MMsC)
- [Isin’s paper with Robert Hill on the consequences of entrepreneurship training in prisons](https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.361)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1148519949

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/guler-isin · Licence: none stated