Anne Miner is an Emeritus Professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. Her involvement includes the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE), the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition and coordinates the Management and Human Resources' Certificates in Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Miner received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

She was named Scholar of the Year by the Technology and Innovation Management of the Academy of Management in 2004. She has presented papers at schools such as Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, INSEAD, Harvard, Wharton, UCLA, and Minnesota.

Miner received grants to conduct research on technology entrepreneurship, product development, and university start-ups. Her publications tackle issues including organizational learning from failure, organizational improvisation, organizational adaptation, industry-level learning and technological evolution, and product development.

Miner has served as associate editor of Management Science and of Organization Science, and served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Organization. She has made study trips to Singapore, China, Thailand, France, England, Canada and Finland.

Miner teaches courses on the management of innovation and technology, including an introductory course on entrepreneurship in business, nonprofits and the arts. She has offered graduate seminars in strategy, organizational learning , entrepreneurship and research methods. She is one of the architects of the business curriculum in UW- Madison’s MS in Biotechnology.

Miner previously served as the executive vice-president for a small closely-held California start-up firm that provided information services to technical firms. She provided human resource consulting for firms involved in product development and manufacturing, and worked as Assistant to the President at Stanford University on human resources issues across the university.