Faculty

Anneloes Raes, IESE Business School

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.

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.

Andy Wu, Harvard Business School

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Andy is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers on growth and innovation strategy in the technology industry. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals.

Inés Alegre, IESE Business School

Senior Lecturer in Managerial Decision Sciences

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.

Mike Rosenberg, IESE Business School

Professor of the Practice of Management

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.

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.

Rory McDonald, Darden Business School

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Rory McDonald is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Darden Business School, Virginia, where he teaches “Disruptive Strategy: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise.” He was formally an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School.
McDonald was named one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets and Quants, and his article “What is Disruptive Innovation?” was named as one of Harvard Business Review’s Definitive Management Ideas. He is the co-author (along with Christopher Bingham) of the recent book, “Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs,” (MIT Press).

Professor McDonald’s research focuses on how firms compete and innovate effectively in new technology-enabled markets. Drawing on a mix of in-depth fieldwork and archival data, he studies how executives develop viable strategies in these contexts and how they obtain resources that improve their chances of success. For his research, he was named the Past Chairs’ Emerging Scholar by the Academy of Management (Technology and Innovation Management Division) and received both a Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship as well as the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He was also a finalist for best dissertation award in business policy and strategy by the Academy of Management.

Professor McDonald received his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in economic sociology from Stanford University, as well as two engineering degrees from the University of South Florida. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin where he received the CBA Foundation Teaching award. McDonald is on the board of YCG Funds, an Austin-based mutual fund company, and is an advisor to several startups.

Lilliana Cabal, IESE Business School

Communications & Public Speaking

Lilliana is an actress, activator and faculty member of IESE Business School Barcelona. She is passionate about combining her experience as a professional actress with the years working in the international business field and sharing it with people who need to face an important communicative situation. Since 2012, she delivers programmers to learn public speaking at IESE business school for the MBA, EMBA, PHD, ISE, Timoney Leadership Institute Dublin & focused custom Programmes and the International Faculty Program.
Lilliana alsoworked with companies such as Allianz, Bayer, CaixaBank, Endesa, Tokio Marine HCC, Foment de Treball, BIC and Schneider Electric to improve the public speaking of their managers and has been invited as a speaker of the Huawei Keynote at the Mobile World Congress..

Kandarp Mehta, IESE Business School

Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Negotiation

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.

Gautam Makunda, Yale School of Management

Professor of Management

Gautam Mukunda is a Professor at the Yale School of Management. Before that he was an Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership & 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 by Harvard 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.

Alejandro Lago, IESE Business School

Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Alejandro Lago is Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at IESE Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as a Gordon F. Newell Fellow. He also holds a degree in civil engineering from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and has completed a Program for Management Development at IESE Business School.

Dr. Lago’s interests focus on the management of complex operations systems, both for manufacturing and services environment. Early in his career, his research focused on the optimization of large transport and distribution systems, and the design and operations of logistics partnerships. Currently his research interest has gradually shifted to the design of service systems, with a focus on studying the involvement of both suppliers and customers in the operations through the use of new technologies.

Before joining IESE, he worked as a researcher for the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA) and Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS). He has also extensive experience as a senior consultant in the area of operations and service management, having worked for large industrial and retail firms, airlines and airport authorities, and lately for banks and insurance companies, among others.

Joe Pons, San Telmo International Institute

Professor of Management Practice

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.

Carlos Rey, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.

Professor of Strategic Management

Carlos is Professor of Strategic Management and the Director of the Chair of Management by Missions and Corporate Purpose at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC
Barcelona). He is also the Founder of DPMC Consulting.

Over the past fifteen years, he has collaborated as a consultant and researcher in the development of organisational purpose and change management with companies
such as Coca-Cola, Sony, Repsol, ISS Facility Services, Bristol Myers Squib and many more. He develops his collaboration in three main areas: strategy, leadership training
and executive coaching. For eight years he was co-director of the IESE Business School research program on “managing by missions”, an evolutionary method of
management by objectives. As a visiting professor, he teaches at various business schools including San Telmo, IESE, ESADE (Spain), AESE (Portugal), Timoney
Leadership Institute (Ireland), PAD (Perú), ESE (Chile).
Professor Rey holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences research, completed a research program at Bentley Hoffman Center for Business Ethics in Boston and has
been trained in case method teaching by Harvard Business School. He received the extraordinary doctorate award for his PhD dissertation on organizational mission and
purpose. Co- author of Management by Missions (Palgrave), published in six languages, Chief Editor of Purpose Driven Organizations (Springer) and other books
and articles in leading journals like Long Range Planning and Journal of Business Ethics.

Christoph Zott, IESE Business School

Professor & Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship

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).