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Mikael Hilmersson joined Menlo College in August 2024. Prior to joining Menlo college Mikael served as Full professor in International Business and as the director of the Centre of International Business Studies at the triple crown accredited (Equis, AASCB and AMBA) School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. Mikael has held positions as senior lecturer in innovation science at Halmstad University and senior lecturer in marketing at Linnaeus University, where he completed his doctoral degree in 2011. Mikael was awarded the title of docent at Uppsala University in 2016 and was declared competent as Full professor in international marketing at Linnaeus University, Sweden in 2017.
Mikael’s research has been published in journals such as the Journal of International Marketing, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Management International Review, Journal of Small Business Management and International Small Business Journal, among others. In two review papers published in 2020, Mikael was ranked as one of the top five researchers globally on SME internationalization, and as number one in Scandinavia. In 2024 Mikael was proud to be awarded the FIU/ Best theory paper award at the Academy of International Business conference in Seoul. To date, Mikael has more than 12 years of full-time teaching experience at three Swedish universities. He has served as director of research, director of studies, head of programme, course leader and examiner at several courses and programmes at all academic levels. He is eagerly developing his pedagogical competences, and he works extensively with integration of research, teaching and knowledge exchanges with the industry, which often take place in LIVE case projects.
Mikael has supervised more than 100 bachelor and master theses, and he has supervised eight doctoral students. He has been a faculty opponent as well as a member of doctoral grading committees. Mikael is an experienced and awarded reviewer. Since 2011 he has reviewed more than 100 manuscripts submitted to international journals. He is an Associate editor at the Journal of Business Research and he sits on three editorial review boards for high ranking journals. In 2018, Mikael received the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the American Marketing Association for his services for the Journal of International Marketing.
Mikael has well developed experience communicating his research to the industry and broader society. He has been engaged as an advisor and ongoing evaluator for the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Innovation Skåne, Sahlgrenska Science Park for GU Ventures as well as for the municipality of Kalmar.
Mikael is co-founder of Komak Consulting AB. He has had contracts for the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Sahlgrenska Science Park, Business Sweden and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration among others.
