Mike Wright

Mike Wright is professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, director of the Centre for Management Buyout Research that he founded in 1986, and associate director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre. Wright is currently coeditor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has published many books and articles on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial mobility, academic entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial family firms in leading international...See more

Mike Wright is professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, director of the Centre for Management Buyout Research that he founded in 1986, and associate director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre. Wright is currently coeditor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has published many books and articles on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial mobility, academic entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial family firms in leading international journals as well as in practitioner journals. His latest books include Private Equity Demystified - 2012 Edition (with John Gilligan, published by ICAEW) and Handbook of Corporate Governance (with Don Siegel, Kevin Keasey, and Igor Filatotchev, published by Oxford University Press, 2013). He is past chair of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and a recipient of that division's Mentor Award. See less