# Goran Calic

> Goran Calic is the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business in Hamilton, Canada. He studies how organizations make consequential decisions under uncertainty, with research on strategy, innovation, creativity, generative AI and energy, and he advises boards and executives.

This site is his personal website. The pages below are plain-text versions written for AI assistants and search engines, and they may be quoted and cited. They cover 31 peer-reviewed journal articles, five Harvard Business Review articles, two Harvard Business School cases and his Substack essays. For speaking, advisory, research and media inquiries, the contact is calicg@mcmaster.ca.

## Pages

- [About Goran Calic](https://gorancalic.com/llm/about.md): positions, education, research record, editorial roles, funding, honours and contact details
- [Research](https://gorancalic.com/llm/research.md): the question behind the research, the lines of work and the main finding of every paper, by theme
- [Publications](https://gorancalic.com/llm/publications.md): all journal articles with links and findings, plus HBR articles, cases, op-eds, chapters and essays
- [Advising and executive education](https://gorancalic.com/llm/advising.md): formats, topics, how sessions run, organizations worked with and how to book
- [Questions and answers](https://gorancalic.com/llm/faq.md): first-person answers on strategy, creativity, generative AI, data, crowdfunding, nuclear power and teaching

## Essays (full text)

- [China in the Chokehold](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2026-05-14-china-in-the-chokehold.md): Substack, May 14, 2026
- [Meet Tritium: Canada’s Quiet Monopoly on the Fuel for Fusion](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2026-04-07-meet-tritium-canadas-quiet-monopoly.md): Substack, April 7, 2026
- [Why All Management Is Energy Management](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2026-03-16-why-all-management-is-energy-management.md): Substack, March 16, 2026
- [Not about Climate Change, This New Nuclear Renaissance is Culturally Driven](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2026-03-10-not-about-climate-change-this-new.md): Substack, March 10, 2026
- [Why Energy Policy is Actually About Culture](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2026-01-10-why-energy-policy-is-actually-about.md): Substack, January 10, 2026
- [We Outsourced Risk — and Lost Progress](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-11-27-we-outsourced-risk-and-lost-progress.md): Substack, November 27, 2025
- [The Psychology of Power: Why We Fear the Word “Nuclear”](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-11-13-the-psychology-of-power-why-we-fear.md): Substack, November 13, 2025
- [If you live in Ontario, your electricity bill just went up 29%](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-11-05-if-you-live-in-ontario-your-electricity.md): Substack, November 5, 2025
- [Issue #28: How Rooftop Solar Panels Redistribute Income from the Poor to the Rich. And why they Might Be a Bad Deal — Even for the Rich.](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-10-10-issue-28-how-rooftop-solar-panels.md): Substack, October 10, 2025
- [Issue #27: Long Construction Times Can Lead to Unemployment](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-09-24-issue-27-long-construction-times.md): Substack, September 24, 2025
- [Issue #26: Record Demand, Cheaper Gas, and Nuclear’s Rising Role](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-09-16-issue-26-record-demand-cheaper-gas.md): Substack, September 16, 2025
- [Issue #25: Gas Surges, Renewables Stall, Nuclear Rises](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-09-09-issue-25-gas-surges-renewables-stall.md): Substack, September 9, 2025
- [Issue #24: The Hidden Cost of Risk in LCOE Calculations](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-09-02-issue-24-the-hidden-cost-of-risk.md): Substack, September 2, 2025
- [Issue #23: AI’s Electricity Shock: How Data Centers Are Rewriting the U.S. Grid](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-26-ais-electricity-shock-how-data-centers.md): Substack, August 26, 2025
- [AI’s Power Diet, Canada’s Nuclear Upside, and the Picks and Shovels to Build It](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-22-ais-power-diet-canadas-nuclear-upside-d5c.md): Substack, August 22, 2025
- [Issue #22: The Hidden Cost of Renewables, Nuclear Expansion in India, and Google's SMR Bet](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-19-issue-22-the-hidden-cost-of-renewables.md): Substack, August 19, 2025
- [AI Demos, Workforce Math, and Answering Nuclear’s Critics](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-18-ai-demos-workforce-math-and-answering-bdc.md): Substack, August 18, 2025
- [Issue #21: Powering the AI Era - Nuclear, Offshore Wind, and Grid Strategies Take Center Stage](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-11-issue-21-powering-the-ai-era-nuclear.md): Substack, August 11, 2025
- [Golf Cutbacks, Tabletop Therapy, and Dominion’s Offshore Wind Math](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-08-golf-cutbacks-tabletop-therapy-and-ba1.md): Substack, August 8, 2025
- [Issue #20: New Deals, New Risks, New Momentum in Nuclear](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-04-issue-20-new-deals-new-risks-new.md): Substack, August 4, 2025
- [Supply-Chain Bottlenecks, Codification Creep, and Mission-Driven Incentives](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-08-01-supply-chain-bottlenecks-codification-6b8.md): Substack, August 1, 2025
- [Issue #19: New Sites, Old Reactors, and the SMR Wave](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-07-30-issue-19-new-sites-old-reactors-and.md): Substack, July 30, 2025
- [Airport Ammo, Meta’s Energy Dilemma, and Launching The Business of Nuclear](https://gorancalic.com/llm/essays/2025-07-25-airport-ammo-metas-energy-dilemma-9bf.md): Substack, July 25, 2025

## Optional

- [Everything above in one file](https://gorancalic.com/llms-full.txt)
- [CV (PDF)](https://gorancalic.com/cv.pdf)
- [Home page](https://gorancalic.com/)
- [Science page](https://gorancalic.com/science/): the journal articles as a gallery
- [Ask GoranAI](https://gorancalic.com/ask): a chatbot that answers from his published work