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Pablo Martin de Holan
Pablo MARTIN de HOLAN is the Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Management / Gestión Emprendedora Department of the Instituto de Empresa Business School, where he also teaches Strategic Management. He regularly visits INCAE (Costa Rica) where he has been Professor of Strategy and Organization since 1998. As well, he is Adjunct Professor at MIT’s Master in Supply Chain Management in Saragossa, Spain. Before joining IE, he was the Bombardier Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta, Canada, visiting professor at HHL (School of Business) in Leipzig, Germany and visiting Professor at University Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. From 1993 to 1998 he taught at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he won two consecutive years the Royal Bank Teaching Innovation Award. Since the beginning of his Academic Career, Pablo has taught in over 17 countries in three languages.
His doctoral thesis was supervised by Henry Mintzberg, considered one of the founding fathers of the Strategic Management discipline by The Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Pablo’s scholarly research explores the different dimensions of knowledge creation in organizations, and the relation between them and sustainable competitive advantage. His publications explore the problems that emerge when organizations try to implement their strategic decisions and change processes.
Before his Ph.D., Pablo earned a Masters in Sociology and another one in Social Sciences, both from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Simultaneously to his academic career, he has worked as a consultant to several international organizations such as the World Bank, NGOs (CARE and Intermon-Oxfam), transnational corporations (Daimler Chrysler, Unilever, Alstom, BAT,…), State Owned Firms (Panama Canal) and several private companies in Canada, France, Spain, Argentina, and several countries in Central and South America.
His research has been published by many practitioner and academic journals (Financial Times, Sloan Management Review MIT, Management Science, Strategic Organization, the Journal of Management Inquiry, Harvard Business Review (America Latina), Revista de Empresa, Journal of Business Research, among others), has been reviewed by journals such as the Financial Times (UK), The Economist (UK), and presented in several Scientific Meetings such as the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Association of International Business, the European Group on Organizational Studies, and Administrative Sciences Association of Canada among others. His paper called “Managing Organizational Forgetting” won the “Bechkard Memorial Prize” as it was voted the best paper on organizational change published by the Sloan Management Review in 2004.
In addition, he has published five book chapters, and contributes constantly with professional journals such as the Financial Times (UK). The Globe and Mail (Canada), National Post (Canada), El Financiero (Costa Rica), La Nación (Costa Rica), Pauta (Panamá), Hablemos Claro (Honduras), InfoBAE (Argentina) among others.
Academic Background
PhD in Strategic Management, McGill University, Canada
Masters in Sociology, the Sorbonne, Paris, France
Masters in Social Sciences, the Sorbonne, Paris, France
Academic Experience
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Instituto de Empresa, 2003 to present
Chair of Entrepreneurship department, Instituto de Empresa, 2006 - to present
Professor of Strategy and Organisation, INCAE, Costa Rica, 1998 to present
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Alberta, 2000 to
2003
Visiting Professor of Strategy and Organisation, UTDT Universidad Torcuato
di Tella, Argentina, 2000
Visiting Professor, IDEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998
Visiting Professor, HHL - Leipzig Business School, Germany, 1998 to 2000
Faculty lecturer, McGill University, Canada, 1992 to 1998
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