Faculty

Inés Alegre, IESE Business School

Assistant Professor

Inés Alegre holds a Phd in Management from IESE Business School and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). After 10 years of full-time dedication to Academia, mainly at the Department of Managerial Decision Sciences at IESE Business School – Universidad de Navarra, and previously at UIC and at UPC, Inés joined the corporate world as Director of Insights and Analytics at Shalion. Shalion is an online market measurement firm that provides market research data on more than 700 retailers worldwide to global brands.

She continues to collaborate and teach in several institutions such as Lagos Business School, Timoney Leadership Institute, INALDE and IESE. Her research and publications are focused on the area of entrepreneurship, and data analytics. She has published several book chapters and research papers in addition of presenting her research at conferences such as the Academy of Management or EGOS.

Julian Sánchez, IPADE Business School

Professor of Management Control and Information

Professor Sánchez is professor of the Department of Managerial Control and Information and a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee at IPADE Business School in Mexico. He is a consultant in business management, specialising in control, costs and information systems.
Sánchez’s main areas of interest are control systems, cost systems, budgeting, project control, evaluation of incentive programmes and fraud. Professor Sánchez is a guest professor at several business schools: San Telmo in Spain, IAE in Argentina and Tayasal in Guatemala. He was a founder partner of Control e Información Directiva SC and was CEO of Grupo Tissier and Quality Control Manager at Siemens Erlangen, Germany as well as General Manager and Director for several other companies.

Mike Rosenberg, IESE Business School

Professor of the Practice of Management in the Strategic Management Department

Professor Rosenberg lectures in IESE’s MBA and Executive Education programs, where he teaches strategy, geo-politics, and sustainability and publishes a weekly blog on these topics under the title Doing Business on the Earth. He began teaching part time in the MBA and Global Executive programs in 1999 and joined the faculty on a full time basis in 2003.

Prior to join IESE Business School, Rosenberg was the Automotive Practice Leader of Heidrick & Struggles and prior to that he spent 15 years as a Management consultant in Europe, North America and Asia for A.T. Kearney and for Arthur D. Little, primarily in the automotive sector.

Professor Rosenberg received his PhD. from Cranfield University, an MBA from IESE Business School, and a Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Chris Bingham, University of North Carolina

Faculty Director & Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,

Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Area Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre. He is an expert in innovation, growth and strategy in dynamic markets. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher.

His industry experience includes work with McKinsey & Company, Deloitte Consulting and Price Waterhouse, as well as with several entrepreneurial firms.

He received his PhD in strategy, organizations and entrepreneurship from Stanford University. He received his BS in accounting and his MBA/MA from Brigham Young University, where he graduated with honors.

Kandarp Mehta, IESE Business School

Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Negotiation Teaching Unit

Kandarp Mehta has a PhD from IESE Business School, Barcelona. He has been with the Entrepreneurship Department at IESE since October 2009. His research has focused on creativity in organisations and negotiations. He frequently works as a consultant with startups on issues related to Innovation and Creativity. His doctoral thesis was about the process of creativity in the context of motion picture industry. He has conducted several Negotiation and Creativity Workshops for corporate executives and management students in Europe, USA and India.

Before coming to Spain, he was at ICFAI Business School in India where he taught Corporate Finance. He is also actively involved with Creative Industries.

Anneloes Raes, IESE Business School

Assistant Professor of Managing People in Organizations

Anneloes Raes obtained a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Maastricht University and a M.Sc. in Psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Prof. Raes’ research and teaching expertise includes top management teams, successful interactions between top and middle managers, self-management, leadership, and teamwork. She has held visiting scholarships at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management as well as Harvard University.

Prof. Raes is a recipient of the “pioneering research award” from the Organizational Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management and Healthways and is currently a member of the editorial board of Small Group Research. In 2011 she published the book “Top Management Teams: How to Be Effective Inside and Outside the Boardroom”, in which she makes academic knowledge about top management teams more accessible and appealing for business professionals.

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard Business School

Professor of Business Administration

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on Strategy and Game Theory. He also teaches in several HBS Executive Education programs including the Owner/President Management Program (OPM), and Strategy—Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. His fields of specialization are management strategy, managerial economics, and industrial organization.
He has published in Management Science, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Long Range Planning, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the USC Interdisciplinary Law Journal, ABANTE Studies in Business Management, and the Harvard Business Review, among others.

Valeria Fratocchi, IEEM, Business School

Professor of Human Behavior in the Organisation at IEEM Business School

Valeria Fratocchi is a professor of Human Behavior in the Organisation at IEEM, Business School (University of Montevideo) and Professor of Labour Relations at the University of Montevideo.

Specialising in the areas of Human Resources with professional experience in leadership and management roles in a wide spectrum of organizational realities; both in HR management. HH, startups and processes of organisational transformation and cultural change.

Her research areas refer to leadership styles, self-managed companies, technology and the world of work, people with high skills and distinctive cultural patterns of Uruguay.
She is a psychologist from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and a master’s degree in Business Management and Administration from the IEEM, Universidad de Montevideo. She has participated in the Global Colloquium on Participant – Centered Learning (GloColl) and the Harvard Business School Case Writing Workshop.

Rory McDonald, Harvard Business School

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Rory McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise in the MBA elective curriculum and previously taught the Technology and Operations Management course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor McDonald’s research focuses on how firms compete and innovate effectively in new technology-enabled markets, . Through McDonald’s unique lens, business leaders can craft innovation and investment strategies that target the trends of the future to avoid being on the wrong side of digital transformation. McDonald’s method includes mapping the growth and future applicability of technologies, such as AI and machine learning, for the economy as well as individual firms. 

Gautam Makunda, Harvard Kennedy School

Research Fellow

Gautam Mukunda is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Before that he was an Assistant Professor in the Organisational Behaviour Unit of Harvard Business School. He has written his first book “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter,” which has been published byHarvard Business Review Press.

Before joining the business school he was the National Science Foundation Synthetic Biology ERC Postdoctoral Fellow resident at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Centre for International Studies. He received his PhD from MIT in Political Science and an A.B. in Government from Harvard, magna cum laude. His research focuses on leadership, international relations, and the social and political implications of technological change. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and MIT’s Security Studies Program and Program on Emerging Technologies.

Before graduate school he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he focused on the pharmaceutical sector. He is Founding Managing Director of The Two Rivers Group, a strategy consulting firm focusing on applying insights from academia to private and public sector problems. He is on the Board of Directors and Chair of the Mentorship Committee of The Upakar Foundation, a national non-profit devoted to providing college scholarships to underprivileged students of South Asian descent. He is a Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellow, an NSF IGERT Fellow, and a Next Generation Fellow of The American Assembly. He has published articles on leadership, military innovation, network-centric warfare, and the security and economic implications of synthetic biology in Security Studies, Parameters, Politics and the Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology, and the Washington Post.

Alberto Ribera, IESE Business School

Senior Lecturer in Managing People in Organizations & Academic Director

Alberto Ribera is the academic director of the IESE Coaching Unit at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He teaches the MBA course “Personality and Leadership”, which received the 2009 IESE Award for Excellence, the Global Executive MBA course “Managing Oneself”; and executive courses on self-leadership, relationships management and executive coaching. He is the author or co-author of 9 books and more than 30 case-studies.

Alberto Ribera joined IESE in 2003 after a 15-year international career with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission and other multilateral organisations, in charge of projects in Africa, Southeast Asia and especially in the Middle East. From 1999 to 2003, he was General Director of the Euro Arab Management School. He has been invited as visiting professor or guest speaker at universities and business schools of more than 20 different countries and at international conferences like the World Economic Forum.

Christoph Zott, IESE Business School

Professor & Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, IESE Business School

Christoph Zott is professor and head of the department of Entrepreneurship. His current work centers on business model innovation, entrepreneurship in established firms, innovation strategy and new venture creation. He teaches, consults and conducts research on these topics.

Prof. Zott holds graduate degrees with distinction in industrial engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France). He received his Ph.D. in commerce and business administration from the University of British Columbia (Canada).

Joe Pons, San Telmo International Institute

President

Dr. Joe M. Pons was Marketing Professor at IESE International Graduate School of Management in Barcelona for 14 years. Currently, his regular teaching assignments include being a Visiting Professor at the IEDC - Bled School of Management. He also lectures at IAE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Instituto Internacional San Telmo in Seville, Spain and participates in Seminars organised by efmd and CEEMAN for business school academics.
Pons founded and is currently President of AXIOMA Marketing Consultants, a firm specialising in strategic marketing projects as well as in the training and executive development aspects that usually go hand in hand with Customer Orientation activities. His current consulting engagements focus on alligning sales and marketing organisations to shifting strategic priorities, improving interfunctional coordination as a mechanism towards greater market orientation as well as international market selection criteria.

Asís Martinez-Jerez, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Assistant Professor of Strategic Cost Management

F. Asís Martinez-Jerez is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Cost Management at Mendoza College of Business in Indiana, USA. He joined the University of Notre Dame in July 2013 where he teaches management accounting and control. In his research, Asís focuses on issues related to accounting information and control systems to implement customer-centric strategies, as well as on corporate governance and its interaction with accounting information.
His work has been published in The Accounting Review, Management Science, The Sloan Management Review & American Economic Journal, among others.

Juan Martinez-Barea, Universal Diagnostics

Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and CEO of Universal Diag

Juan Martinez-Barea is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at San Telmo International Institute and founder&CEO of Universal Diagnostics in Seville, Spain. Juan is a social and business entrepreneur. After working in world-class companies like Abengoa and McKinsey, Juan launched in 1999 50K, the first high-tech new venture accelerator in Spain, in collaboration with the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
Juan has worked with more than 1.000 start-ups, and has advised and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs. Following his work in entrepreneurship he later launched a non-profit foundation to identify, educate and inspire young leaders, with the aim of developing the leaders that will build the future of the South.

Bruno Cassiman, IESE Business School, Harvard Business School

Professor of Strategy in the Strategic Management Dept IESE Business School

Bruno Cassiman ) is Professor of Strategy and the Nissan Chair of Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School in Barcelona and a visiting Professor at the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. He is also the Herman Daems Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

His research interests have centered on the economics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on the connections between science and industry in the innovation process. His work has been published in the leading Economics and Management journals such as The American Economic Review, Management Science, The Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Organization, The European Economic Review, The International Journal of Industrial Organization. He co-edited a book on the relation between mergers and acquisitions and innovation (M&A and Innovation: The Innovation Impact, Edward Elgar 2006) and has been a consultant to the European Commission, the Belgian, Flemish and Catalan governments on matters of innovation policy and to several companies on matters of (innovation) strategy.

Pinar Ozcan, Warwick Business School

Professor of Strategic Management

Dr Ozcan specializes in strategy, entrepreneurship, and the emergence of new markets, regularly posting about these topics on Twitter @cpozcan. A Standford PhD graduate, Dr Ozcan directed the AEA Stanford Executive Institute, an executive program for the high tech industry for three years. She also organised the Stanford Entrepreneurship Thought Leaders Seminars, and helped create the Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner for entrepreneurship educators worldwide. She has received the Excellence in Research Award at IESE, where she was a lecturer for several years, the EFMD Best Teaching Case Award, and the IDEA Entrepreneurship Thought Leader Award.

In 2017, Dr Ozcan had the honour to be selected to the Top 40 Business School Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants. In 2018, Dr Ozcan received the Strategic Management Society Research in Organisations Award for her work on the disruption in the European Banking sector in partnership with Swift Institute.

Dr. Ozcan is a founding partner of Blanchard International Turkey. She has worked in management consulting at Siemens Corporation in Germany, and strategy consulting with technology ventures and venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Dr Ozcan is from Istanbul, Turkey and speaks English, German, Spanish, Turkish and Dutch.