Bachelor in Business Administration

Aguilar de Armas, Gustavo

Gustavo, after having held senior positions in business and non profit organizations,  has spent 18 years working within the field of organizational development and strategy for managing change, doing the follow up of the processes of the talent integration in the business strategy of multinationals in Europe, USA and Latin America. As a consultant Gustavo works  with organizations in defining and implementing its strategy, its organizational structure and HR management systems. As a coach and facilitator, he has been involved in the design and delivery of "in company" development programs about leadership and interpersonal skills. Gustavo  has also taught in several Universities and Public and Private Schools. His interests focus on how to increase productivity in High Diversity Teams in a sustainable way.

Campos, Luciano

LucianoCampos is an economist with experience in academia and business. He is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis in Macroeconomics at the Quantitative Economics Department of the Complutense University of Madrid. In his thesis, he studies the evolution of macroeconomic variables using econometric time series techniques. He has taught Macroeconomics I and History of Economic Thought at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he has worked as assistant professor of Mathematics and Microeconomics at Sciences Po, Paris. He has also experience as a consultant / researcher for several institutions in Argentina, including the CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) and the Federal Council of Investments. He has published articles in academic journals in Argentina and France. In the business sector, he has worked in the areas of ​​economic and financial analysis for companies such as IBM and Deloitte Argentina.

Castro Rubio , José María

José María Castro Rubio is an IE University professor teaching Financial Mathematics at first year degree in BBA since 2010-2011 course. He is currently a consultant and financial advisor for ARCA S.L. consultancy (Madrid), and manager and administrator for NAIL4US, leader in gel nails sector, (Madrid). He is also an active partner for MAT S.L. teaching financial mathematics and business statistic with two main approaches: opposition to the state officials preparation and support classes for UAM and URJC students. Previously José María worked in BBVA and SANTA LUCIA insurance company both in Madrid.

De la Calzada, Fernando

Professor de la Calzada holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Industry from ICAI-Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School – Universidad de Navarra. He currently works as Deputy General Manager at Grupo Presto where he is focused on the areas of control and strategy. In the past he has served as strategy consultant in the firm Deloitte, participating in many projects for national and multinational companies. Professor de la Calzada combines his managerial position with his academic activity as Associate Professor of IE University where he teaches Financial Accounting and Organizational Management. Since 2010, he is also Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid teaching Strategic Management and Business Management. His fields of interest are focused on finance, business strategy and entrepreneurship.

Eizaguirre Diéguez, María

María Eizaguirre obtained her B.A. (Hons) in Anthropology from Durham University, after which she pursued her M.Sc. in the field of Biological Anthropology (1995). She was then awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship (Linacre & Spain, 1994) to study at the University of Oxford, where she completed her Ph.D in Biological Anthropology (1999). In 1999, María Eizaguirre started her career in consumer insights and behaviour, first at a research agency (Research International), followed by an advertising agency (Young&Rubicam) and for the last eight years at Kraft Foods within the Consumer Insights & Strategy team, where she was leading the Innovation CI function across the EU. Professor Eizaguirre is currently Director Insights and Innovation for IE University. Her main interest is in the use of Anthropology as a tool to understand & interpret consumer behavior and her main focus is on aiding the consumer insights function turn into a true business partner.

Farooqi, Sara

Sara Farooqi is an Associate Professor at IE University and IE Business School where she teaches courses in Business Mathematics, Quantitative Methods, Finance & the Capital Markets. Previous to IE, Sara worked in investment banking in Goldman Sachs (London) and JP Morgan Chase, where she was focused mainly in the Natural Resources & Commodities sector.

García Estévez, Pablo

Accredited by the ACAP as a professor doctor. Accredited Specialist in the Capital Market (IEB) and Specialist in Private Banking and Financial Markets (IEB). Accredited Specialist in Excel by Microsoft.He has published nine books on stock markets and financial management.It has several articles on risk in national and international journals. His research is about  Artificial Neural Networks in the financial markets. He has presented papers in a dozen national and international conferences. Make programs with Visual Basic and MatLab. He has attended several refresher courses at Harvard (Cambridge, USA), and Madrid.Among other facilities, teaches finance at master degree CUNEF, CU-Cardinal Cisneros and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Company's financial advisor, director of financial research applied to Black Swam, and Risk Assessment Consultant Economist and Chartered companies in the College of Economists of Madrid.

Giancane, Paolo

Paolo Giancane has been the Deputy General Manager of UniCredit’s corporate finance team in Beijing and Hong Kong from the establishment of the practice in 2005 through 2009. During this period he participated in several equity financings on behalf of Chinese clients. He also advised European clients in prospective investments in China and divestitures of European assets to Chinese buyers. Prior to joining UniCredit in 2002, Mr. Giancane worked at Lehman Brothers in Milan, London and New York in the corporate finance and leveraged finance groups. He was exposed to M&A, equity and debt transactions in Continental Europe, United States and emerging markets. Paolo holds a BBA from L. Bocconi University in Milan and a Master in Finance from London Business School. He has also spoken at various conferences organized by the UniCredit Group in the field of mergers & acquisitions to and from China. Paolo also teaches Financial Planning at the IE School of Architecture’s MAMD (Master in Architectural Management and Design) in Madrid.

González Mosqueira, Pablo

Professor Pablo González Mosqueira provides legal advice on all branches of Corporate Law, and in particular, on private mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and general advice to Spanish listed companies. Since joining Pérez-Llorca, he has advised national and international clients on, amongst other transactions, setting up joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions of shares and assets and liabilities, acquisitions of significant listed shareholdings, corporate restructuring processes, public takeover bids, and issuances of securities of listed companies. Pablo Mosqueira has also lectured on matters of Corporate Law for the Venture Capital Program in the Madrid Stock Exchange Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles – IEB (ES)) and in the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (ES).

Kim, Jikyung

Professor Kim is interested in building data-based models that answer critical marketing questions and support marketing decision makers. She uses statistical methodologies in analyzing customer database to understand customers, particularly in terms of repeat purchase behaviour and marketing interactions with the company. Currently she is investigating the heavy buying behaviour in the FMCG industry and marketing communications through mobile terminal. Professor Kim teaches Introduction to Marketing and Consumer Behaviour to BBA students.

Lejarraga, José

José Lejarraga received his Ph.D. in Business Economics and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), where he also served as a teaching assistant for several management courses. His research interests lie in the intersection between behavioral decision making, experiential learning and entrepreneurship, and for his research he conducts laboratory experiments as well as quantitative analysis of firm-level data. After his Ph.D. he joined Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a post-doctoral fellow to continue his research, and in 2011 he joined IE University as a professor of Entrepreneurship. Some of his work has been published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Management and the European Management Review. He has also presented his research in several international conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Strategic Management Society’s Meeting, EGOS conference, or the Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Meeting.

Manzano Antón, Roberto

Roberto Manzano has built his career in the areas of marketing and trade marketing, not only for manufacturers, but also retailers. This has allowed him to acquire a complete understanding of the strategic and the operational aspects of marketing, both brand and retail marketing. His professional career started at Johnson & Johnson where he held the position of Marketing Manager. Later on, he worked as Marketing & Trade Marketing Director for Ralston Energy Systems in Spain and Portugal. As a member of the International Marketing Directors Committee, he participated in the Energizer Battery launch for Europe. Energizer is the brand leader in the portable energy market. As Marketing and Purchasing Director at Leroy Merlin, he participated in the expansion and diversification of this Category Killer - the undisputed leader within the Spanish Do It Yourself market. Currently works as Associated Professor at IE University and IE Business School.

Mata Andrades, Francisco

Francisco Mata has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the London School of Economics (LSE) (GB), where he had also obtained his masters degree in the same subject, with a focus on city marketing. His undergraduate degree was in advertising and public relations (University of Navarra) (ES). For two years, he taught a course at the LSE on various philosophical approaches to geography. He had previously worked in marketing firms in several countries across the world, and in 2004 founded in London a consultancy on city image and strategy. In recent years his interest developed into more theoretical aspects of the experience of space. In fact, his Ph.D. thesis was entitled: “A development of a phenomenological approach to the image of the city and city marketing.” He put forward an innovative complement to traditional cost-benefit analyses used in city marketing, drawing from Heidegger’s ideas on spatiality. During 2009 he visited the Department of Philosophy at Yale University (US) where he worked as a research associate, deepening his research on phenomenology and space. He joined IE University in the fall 2009, and he teaches “Ethics” to all undergraduate students, as well as “Urban Theory” and “Urban Workshop” to second-year architecture students. He is also currently setting up an interdisciplinary research group on applied ontological thinking, whereby he aims to deepen the understanding on the relationship between mind, matter and community life. Since September 2010, he is also Dean of Undergraduate Studies at IE University.

Mayoral, Daniel

Professor Daniel Mayoral has focused his professional career in all aspects related to people’s development and the elements that allow people and organizations to be more effective in personal relationships. After four years working in several consultancy projects in Accenture, he started leading the Development Area in Agilent Technologies (Hewlett Packard). Daniel has participated in all aspects of organizational development, such as: creating training plans, development of training courses, competencies evaluation, mentoring / coaching programs, change management, on-line tools development, etc. Nowadays he is focusing his work on helping people and organizations in the development of tools and training programs that allow personal and professional development, through his own company: PDM Consultores. Daniel started collaborating with IE in 2005 and currently takes part in several programs related with management abilities.

Méndez Llera, Javier

Javier Méndez has been Former Spanish Representative to the European Commission´s Working Group for the development of the “White Paper” on changes to the “Collective Investment Schemes” Directive. He has also been a member of the “Expert Group” for Advisory to the European Commission (DG Internal Market) in relation to European Financial Markets. Also, a former member of the Board of the “Spanish Society of Investment Analysts”, currently being its General Secretary and General Manager of the “Fundación de Estudios Financieros”. Representative to European Federation of Financial Analysts Socities´ “Commission on Training & Qualification”. Former Member of the “Association for Investment Management and Research -AIMR- International Chapter” of the USA. As a practitioner in the field of Finance, and before joining the “Spanish Society of Investment Analysts”, he was President of Nordland, a private financial advisory company. Before that, he held numerous executive posts at the BBVA Group in Spain such as Executive Director and Member of the Board of BBVA Asset Management, Head of Equities at BBVA Gestión and BBVA Pensiones and Vice President of the Brokerage Company and Private Banking units.
 

Millán Planelles, David

His professional and academic career has been developed in countries like Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Canada. He has occupied senior responsibilities in different private companies. Currently, he is the founder of Millan & Co., a senior executive advisory firm. Likewise, he is associate professor of IE Business School, where he has been selected as a Top 3 professor (2011), and Fundesem. This is also combined with conferences and presentations on business forums. On the publication side, he is author of “Cuestión de Valor, de querer vender a saber competir” (Ed. Wolters Kluver, 2011). Furthermore he is being awarded Best Management Article in 2010 by the RuralCaja Foundation and his articles have been published in several business media.

Montaño Alcón, Julián Mª

Professor JuliÁn Montaño’s research engages in central issues in epistemology (the nature of justification, relativism) aesthetics (emotions, taste and normativity, the nature of the work of art) and social philosophy (communitarianism, cultural relativism, the concept of tradition, social & common goods). Among his interests are subjects like Wittgenstein, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Analytical Thomism, Scottish Enlightenment and Communitarian philosophers. His current research project focuses on the epistemology of testimony and how knowledge is transmitted in a community or tradition. Other topics of interest include: literature and philosophy, Iris Murdoch and T.S. Eliot. Currently he is the Marketing Director of IE University. He has developed his professional career in marketing, in industries different to higher education, especially media and entertainment, with positions in Pearson Group and Walt Disney Television international.

Moreno de Tejada, Alberto

Professor Moreno de Tejada´s doctoral thesis was a study on ethical leadership in public administration applying the case study´s methodology. His prime research interest is on ethics, leadership and governance in organizations. He is currently involved in a research study on exemplary corporate executives, character and leadership in Business and its effect on the long term sustainability of their firms. At the same time, he is coordinating a project to establish in Madrid a research observatory in ethics and finance. He started his professional career in finance first in investment banking and afterwards moved to asset management. He is currently an independent ethics and compliance lawyer and consultant. He is also a consultant for the OECD on Ethics Training Programmes for public officials. In addition, he has participated in some entrepreneurship projects being actually a partner in the company ONE&ONLY Office Products, a platform which offers integrated services to independentsellers of office products, corporations and domestic consumers. 

Navarro, Álvaro

Professor Navarro received his Bachelor Degree in Economics at the University of Rochester (US). and his Executive MBA at IE Business School in Madrid. Currently he is a Ph.D. Student at the DBA program at IE Business School. For 14 years he has occupied management positions at industrial and distribution companies. He is partner and non-executive board member at Capelhi, S.A., a fashion distribution company placed in Madrid. He is also the founder and owner of the company Chiefs, S.L, a chain of fashion and accessories stores. In his academic work, in addition to his teaching at IE University, he has lectured classes and seminars at Facultad de Economicas at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid (ES), and he has also participated at seminars at the University of Harvard (US)..

Peña, Ángel

Professor Ángel Peña has worked in several media, like La Gaceta de los Negocios, Actualidad Económica, Nueva Revista, etc, and nowadays he contributes to papers like La Gaceta, ABC, Época o Tiempo. As a profesor he has lectured in Universidad Austral (AR). His interests focus on ethics and cultural journalism. He is cowriter of the book “Guía de Lecturas Contemporáneas”.

Pena, Jorge

Jorge Pena obtained his Ph.D. in Economics with honors from the U.N.E.D in 2009 and his M.A. in Industrial Organization and Markets in 2005 from the Universidad Carlos III. Professor Pena has worked as consultant for The World Bank Group (Washington DC, US) from 2005 to the present time, being his main task the analysis of the quality of the business environment in developing countries. Pena’s research interest is in the intersection of three areas: empirical industrial organization, development economics and applied microeconometrics. His most recent and active line of research covers the topics of firms’ productivity and international integration in the context of heterogeneous firms models. He has also worked on data quality issues, Bayesian multiple imputation and endogenous selection in right hand side variables. Professor Pena has taught undergraduate econometrics at the Universidad Carlos III, The World Bank, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Pindard-Lejarraga, Maud

Maud Pindard-Lejarraga got her Ph.D. (2010) and Master in Business from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES). She completed her undergraduate studies in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. Before joining IE, she occupied two visiting researcher positions at HEC Paris and Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto). Her research interests focus on organizational ecology and on the impact of interorganizational relationships on firm survival and performance. Her work has been presented in various international conferences, in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia and Denmark. She is an active member of the Academy of Management and serves as a reviewer for Industrial and Corporate Change.

Ponce Hernández, Leticia

Leticia Ponce is the founder of LyL de Ultramar, the Master Franchise for Mexico of KA International, a leader in interior decoration franchises with more then 400 shops in five continents. During 8 years, opened seven stores throughout Mexico and managed a small team to service client and franchise needs. Worked as Quality Director for GE CAPITAL LARGO PLAZO for both Spain and Portugal. During this period she defined and implemented quality measurements for all functions of the Company, trained all company employees on GE’s Quality Initiative and participated in the definition of quality incentive plans. Has also worked for a NFP organization, Fundación Consejo España-Estados Unidos.

Rivas Herrero, Luis Alberto

Luis Rivas has supervised several research projects: Fiscal decentralization and economic growth, CAP and development of European regions, labour market in the EU. As research assistant he has participated in other projects on fiscal reform (financed by Interamerican Development Bank), public employment services in the EU, the electricity sector in Spain (financed by Spanish Government) and the feasibility of a cohesion fund in Latin America (Secretaría General Iberoamericana). He has been researcher at several universities and institutions (USA, France, Portugal, Ministery of Economics –Institue of Fiscal Studies-, Spain). He was awarded a Ph.D. research prize (University Cooperation Office) in 2007. He is the coordinator of internacional Relations since 2003. As a professor he has lectured besides Spain in different countries such as Ireland, Bolivia, Poland, Germany, Mexico or the UK. His curriculum vitae was certified by the Regional Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, Castilla y León in 2008.

Rose Bryer, Alice

Alice Rose Bryer has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on creativity and learning in organizations and institutions, and the social, political roles of accounting. She has conducted field studies of the empresas recuperadas in Argentina and is currently studying worker cooperatives and grass roots institutions in Barcelona, Spain. Alice has published work in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Critical perspectives on Accounting; and Critical Perspectives on Anthropology. She has also worked on White Papers on the Social Economy for the Spanish Parliament.

Sánchez, Isabel

Isabel Sánchez is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Business Administration at IE University. She began her professional life in academia, working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester, USA, and actively participating in the creation of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) as an Assistant Professor. She has held several positions in public administration, in regulatory agencies of the energy sector and in the Spanish national competition authority. There she has concentrated in the analysis of different regulatory policies in various sectors proposing recommendations for regulation improvement and focusing in competition advocacy. She also has experience in the design and implementation of policies for science, technology and innovation gained while she served as Head of Staff of the Secretary of State for Science and Technology of the first Ministry of Science and Technology in Spain, as a Board member of the CDTI and as a long term consultant in the World Bank in the Department of Private Sector Development and Energy for Latin America and the Caribbean. She is currently an independent member of the Board in ENAGAS, SA.

Sanz, Juan Ignacio

In a market as complex as IT, always changing at a high speed, Professor Sanz has also worked for different types of companies and in different roles, from Software Engineer to IT Manager, in huge enterprises as Telefónica (Research in Formal Description Techniques for testing network nodes, based on Object Oriented programming methodology) and other companies such as Dräger Hispania (IT manager, implementing a CRM and an ERP (BaaN) and OSIATIS (Manager of Engineering Division, developing IT projects in Intranet and Extranet portals, outsourcing and Computer and Communications systems). He is currently Manager of IT Infrastructure Division in Ibermática, Division with 1.500 people covering marketing, consultancy, sales and operations activities in the Managed Services, Outsourcing, Cloud Computing and BPO market.

Strom-Olsen, Rolf

Dr. Strom-Olsen is Director of Studies at IE School of Arts & Humanities. A Fulbright scholar to Spain in 1998-99, and a Social Sciences Research Council fellow in 2000, he has published a variety of articles and reviews on European history. His main area of research is court ritual and state formation in the late medieval and early modern periods, concentrating on the Low Countries and Spain. He also has research interests in late-Roman and early medieval Iberian history. A classical music aficionado, he also obtained a master's degree in advanced composition at the Royal College of Music.

Urrutia de Hoyos, Ignacio

Professor Ignacio Urrutia has taught at IE Business School, IESE Business School (ES) and Carlos III University (ES).

Prior to his incorporation at IE University, he held the position of Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Nebrija University. In addition to his educational career, he is a consultant in the area of information systems and management Control. His areas of research focus predominantly on decision-making and economic information within the company. Most notable is his research on the management of health care institutions and systems of accounting information in collaboration with Professors Marvin Gonzalez y Quesada which resulted in the publication of the article: “Building an Activity Based Costing Hospital Model Using Quality Function Deployment and Benchmarking”. The article went on to win the Emeral Literati Network Publisher's Outstanding Paper Award for best article published in “Benchmarking: An International Journal”. In addition to this, his interest in the improvement of managerial efficiency led him to write the book Crisis: 10 Mistakes in the Reduction of Costs, published by Netbiblo. Alongside Healthcare, Professor Urrutia has also focused on the areas of management entities in sports and entertainment, creating during his time at IESE the Sport Business Management Center. Along with teaching materials developed in the form of cases, he is the co-author of the book International Cases in the Business of Sport, edited by Elsevier, Reconstrucción organizativa: el método Juande Ramos edited by Netbiblo, and Create value and Sport Management edited by Cambridge University Press.

Werner , Alejandro

Professor Alejandro Werner has worked as an economist for the International Monetary Fund. In Mexico, his career in the public sector includes the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance. At Banco de Mexico, he headed the Economic Research Department. At the Ministry of Finance, he was the Chief of Staff for the Minister from February to August of 2003 and Head of the Economic Planning Unit up to November of 2006. From December 2006 to August 2010 he was Deputy Minister. Since September of this year he is Professor at IE (ES). Additionally, he has been a part-time professor at ITAM and a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at Yale University. He has published several articles in academic journals on financial, monetary and fiscal issues. In 2008 he was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.