Marc Gruber (born 1972 in Munich) is a management scholar and researcher specializing in technology commercialization.

Staying at HSG, he wrote a PhD thesis on "Erfolgsfaktoren des Wirtschaftens von KMU im Zeitablauf: dargestellt an Beispielen aus der deutschen Nahrungs- und Genussmittelindustrie" (Success factors of SMEs over time: illustrated by examples from the German food and luxury food industry) and graduated in 2000.

[5] He obtained his habilitation from LMU's School of Management in 2005 for his research entitled "Marketingplanung von wagniskapitalfinanzierten Unternehmensgründungen – eine theoretische und empirische Analyse" (Marketing planning of venture capital-financed start-ups – a theoretical and empirical analysis).

[1][8] Gruber's group focuses his research on the fields of entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, innovation, and strategic management.

[11] Gruber's research was featured in several news outlets: Bilan,[12] Le Temps,[13] Voice of FinTech podcast,[14] and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.