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New Faculty & VisitingProfessorsESADE Business School2011-2012

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DEAN OF ESADEBUSINESS SCHOOL

AlfonsSauquet

I am pleased to announce several recent faculty appointments at ESADE Business School. Since September 2011, seven new international faculty mem-bers from a variety of backgrounds and fields of expertise have joined the school. In addition, five visiting professors are staying with us for the current academic year. These faculty members bring to our community a devotion to scholarship and academic life in general. Their appointment is testimony to ESADE’s commitment to excellence in both research and teaching.

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New Faculty

Alex Makarevich

Paola M. Madini

Daniela Noethen

Juan Rovira

Pablo Triana

Carolina Villegas

Ivanka Visnjic

Visiting Professors

Ruth V. Aguilera

John Dencker

Eero O. Kasanen

James J. McGonigle

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New FacultyESADE Business School2011-2012

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Academic training> PhD in Economic Sociology. Stanford University> MPhil in Sociology. Oxford University> MSc in Sociology. London School of Economics

Interest areas> Inter- and intra-organisational networks> Organisational behaviour and theory> Corporate entrepreneurship> Venture capital industry

About himAlex Makarevich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management and Organi-sation. He holds a Ph.D. in Econo-mic Sociology from Stanford Uni-versity, a M.Phil. from Oxford University, and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

Alex studies how network embed-dedness affects organizational performance.

This work integrates insights from networks literature and organiza-tional ecology to arrive at a more accurate account of organizational performance and advance theo-retical integration of the two re-search streams. Papers originating from this research examine how firms’ market niche and pattern of alliances interact to affect firms’ survival chances and the relation-ship between organizations’ net-work centrality, status, and survi-val in the market.

Previously, Alex studied corporate entrepreneurship at multinational companies. That research covered a number of topics, ranging from the use of knowledge networks in support of corporate ventures to organizational environment within the parent company, and resulted in a series of papers published by the KnowledgeSource research centre.

Alex is an ad hoc reviewer for the Academy of Man-agement Journal and the American Sociologi-cal Review. He has pre-sented his work at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management,

the American Sociological Associa-tion, and the Strategic Management Society.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION

BARCELONA-SANT CUGAT CAMPUS

Alex Makarevich

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His current research explores how inter-organizational ties interact with the industry environment to shape organizational outcomes in the U.S. venture capital market.

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Academic training> PhD in Business Administration and Management. Università Bocconi> Master of Science in Accounting and Management Control. Università Bocconi

Interest Areas> Management Control Systems (MCS) Design> Organisational and Behavioural Aspects of MCS> Budgeting> Performance Measurement and Evaluation> MCS and Inter-organisational Relationships

About herPaola holds a PhD in Business Administration and Manage-ment (Università Bocconi, Italy) and a Master in Accounting and Management Control (Università Bocconi, Italy). She is part of the ACFAI Accounting Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She has been Visiting PhD Candi-date at RSM, Erasmus University (The Netherlands). She is currently Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Financial Management and Control at ESADE.

Paola believes that accounting research into companies’ mana-gement control systems (MCS) design and use can help unders-tand managers’ behaviours and outcomes. Her research focuses on the determinants and the behavioural outcomes of compa-nies’ top-down bottom-up budget process procedures. Her current cross-sectional field research shows that companies use a variety of budget process procedures made up of combinations of design elements, and that their procedu-ral choice significatively depends on internal rather than external factors. Her recent case study also found that managers’ behaviour

during budget negotiations, seen as resistance to changing the budget proposal, is influenced by factors related to the characteris-tics of the company budget process procedure. Her ongoing research examines the determinants of budget process procedure modifi-cations and the effects of design choices on companies’ budget process efficiency.

Paola is a member of the European Accounting Association. Her working papers have been selected for discussion in international conferences. She has been involved in international research projects on MCS in inter-organisational relationships, funded by the Char-tered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and on the Integrative Finance Organization, funded by IBM. She has also ser-ved as organisational committee member for the international conference “Sustaining Organiza-tional Combinations”, sponsored by Accounting, Organizations and Society (Università Bocconi, Italy, 2005).

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL


Paola M. Madini


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Academic training> PhD in Business Administration. Jacobs University Bremen - Germany> Bachelor and Master in Psychology. University of Bonn - Germany

Interest areas> Knowledge transfer in work teams> Implications of the aging workforce for organisational behaviour> Intergenerational learning

About herDaniela Noethen recently comple-ted her PhD in Business Admin-istration (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) and holds a Diploma in Psychology (Universi-ty of Bonn, Germany, equivalent to bachelor plus master). She pre-viously spent a year studying Psychology at the University of British Columbia (Canada). She has joined ESADE as a Assis-tant Professor in the Department of People Management and Orga-nisation.

Daniela Noethen believes that knowledge management becomes increasingly important in times of imminent demographic change, and that organisations must grasp the knowledge of large waves of retiring employees lest huge costs be incurred. Her dissertational research dealt with knowledge transfer in teams as one means of preventing knowledge loss.The results of her research into predictors of knowledge transfer suggest that antecedents often differ in their influence depending on the transfer behaviour exami-ned (sharing or seeking knowledge) and the level of analysis (indivi-dual or team) (under review in

International Journal of Human Resource Management). In ano-ther study of intergenerational knowledge transfer, she found that there is only slightly more knowledge transfer from older to younger employees than without such an age difference between employees, and only slightly more knowledge transfer in age-diverse teams. This suggests that in order to protect retiring employees’ knowledge from being lost to the organisation, knowledge transfer must be supported more heavily.

For her future research, Danie-la Noethen is interested in models for measuring knowledge transfer and knowledge loss, means of pre-venting knowledge loss other than knowledge transfer in teams, and catalysts and obstacles to interge-nerational learning in organisa-tions. She is convinced that multi-level approaches and longitudinal field studies will help to show the way to knowledge loss prevention.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION


Daniela Noethen

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Academic training> Licenciado en Derecho. Universidad de Barcelona

Interest areas> Developing human capital within organisations> People management and strategy implementation> Executive coaching

About himAfter twenty-eight years working for various multinationals, he joined the ESADE Department of People Management and Orga-nisation as Lecturer in 2011.He was the Founder and first Director of Universitas Telefónica, the Spanish telecom’s corporate university. In 2005 he led the team responsible for defining Campus Universitas Telefónica’s strategic model and design and implementing its launch. During his tenure as Director (2005-2010), Universitas Telefónica offered 17 programmes to more than 5,500 executives from the 23 countries where the company has a presence. From the outset, the focus of Universitas Telefó-nica’s academic programme con-centrated on developing leader-ship as a key element to create a new corporate culture, communi-cate the company’s business stra-tegy and encourage the exchange of ideas and practices between executives.

Professor Rovira joined Gru-po Telefónica in 1997 as Sub-Director General for Telefónica International’s Business Develo-pment Area. He participated in defining and implementing the company’s strategy for its expan-sion in specific Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a re-sult of the latter, the Telefónica

Centroamérica joint venture was created, and mobile phone services were implemented in Guatemala and El Salvador.

In 1999, he participated as Head of Strategic Development in the international expansion of Atento, Grupo Telefónica’s call centre sub-sidiary. In 2001, he moved to Terra as Global Director of Human Resources from which he led the internet company’s restructuring and integration in Telefónica. He was later named Sub-Director General for Telefónica in Catalonia. Before joining Grupo Telefónica, he worked in the banking sector for fifteen years, first for BBVA and then Banco Santander, working in the international and transactio-nal banking areas.

As Head of International Legal Services at BBVA, he was very active in the bank’s shares being traded in the leading markets around the world. Worth high-lighting from his experience at Banco Santander are the design and development of e-banking and cash management services for companies.Currently, he is Vice Chair for Iberia at the Oxford Leadership Academy and a member of its international faculty.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION


Juan Rovira

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Academic training> Master of Science. New York University> Master of Arts. American University> Bachelor of Science. Universidad Autónoma

Interest Areas> Derivatives> Financial Risk Management> Bank Capital Regulation> International Finance - Macroeconomics> Education (business edu, general edu)

About him

He has held several positions in the financial industry. His teaching experience includes IE Business School and Johns Hopkins University.

Pablo Triana has written three books. The Number That Killed Us (Wiley, 2011) analyzes the role of the Value at Risk model in unleashing the 2007-08 crisis. Lecturing Birds On Flying (Wiley, 2009) discusses the effects that quantitative/theoretical models can have on real-life financial markets. Corporate Derivatives (Risk Books, 2006) deals with the use of derivatives by non-financial corporations.

He has also authored scores of arti-cles for practitioner-oriented publi-cations, including The Financial Times (30 articles), BusinessWeek, Risk, and Yale Economic Review.

Pablo Triana is contributing editor of Corporate Finance Review (edi-ted by Thomson Reuters).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

MADRID CAMPUS

Pablo Triana

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Pablo Triana pursued graduate studies at NYU Stern (statistics, derivatives, math finance) and American University (macro-micro, development econ, development banking, international finance)

NEW FACULTYESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011-2012

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Academic training> PhD in Economics. European University Institute> Master of Arts. University of Sussex> Licenciada en Economía. Universidad de Cantabria

Interest Areas> International Finance> Foreign Direct Investment> Productivity> Trade> Development

About herCarolina Villegas Sanchez comple-ted her PhD in Economics at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She also holds a Master in Development Economics (University of Sussex, UK). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at ESADE.

She has conducted research on capital flows and convergence, the determinants of foreign direct invest-ment (FDI), as well as the durability of flexible exchange rate regimes. Following recent trends in the literature, she uses micro-level data (i.e. data at the firm level) to answer traditional macroeconomic questions.

She has focused on the role of well developed local financial systems as a precondition for positive productivity spillovers derived from the presence of multinational companies.

Carolina has also been involved in policy work. She was a research

fellow at the Universite Libre de Bruxelle, and con-ducted various internships at international organisa-tions including the Euro-pean Commission and the International Monetary Fund. She is currently an

external short-term consultant at the World Bank.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS


Carolina Villegas

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Carolina’s research focuses on international economics and finance and, in particular, on the evidence of financial integration and growth.

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Academic training> Phd in Applied Economics. Catholic University of Leuven> Master of Business Economics. University of Novi Sad> Master of Advanced Business Studies. Catholic University of Leuven

Interest areas> Service innovation> Business model innovation> Servitisation and complex service systems> New product development

About herIvanka completed her PhD degree (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium). She holds a Master of Advanced Business Studies (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) and Master of Business and Economics (University of Novi Sad, Serbia). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations and In-novation Management at ESADE. Ivanka also holds a Visiting Acade-mic position at Cambridge Univer-sity, where she leads the Business Models project of the Cambridge Service Alliance, a cross-university platform dedicated to service management research.

Ivanka’s research lies at the inter-section of innovation, operations management and entrepreneur-ship. Currently, she is focusing on the business model innovation that arises in the provision of com-plex services and product-service systems. Examples are the emer-gence of smart cities and the role of construction and facility-management service providers, the transformation of infrastruc-ture-strong ecosystems such as rail transport, energy and water utility, and the advent of instru-mentalisation and IT service stra-

tegies. During her PhD, she stu-died the tendency of durable equi-pment manufacturers to extend their business models towards the provision of related services and their evolution towards through-life solutions.

Ivanka’s research is based on close collaboration with industry. Her current research at the Cambrid-ge Service Alliance is conducted in partnership with IBM and BAE Systems and it involves the cons-tant research interaction and con-sultation of a number of partners from the aforementioned sectors. Her PhD was commissioned by C-level management of a global equipment manufacturer and has helped in shaping the firm’s service strategy. Prior to her academic career, Ivanka worked at McKin-sey & Co, where she specialised in product innovation strategies in the pharmaceutical industry and participated in a number of pro-jects for top pharmaceutical firms.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION


Ivanka Visnjic


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VisitingProfessorsESADE Business School2011-2012

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Academic training> PhD in Sociology. Universitas Harvardiana> Master in Sociology. Universitas Harvardiana

Interest areas> Comparative corporate governance> International business/global strategy> Cross-border merger and acquisitions> Corporate social responsibility

About herRuth V. Aguilera is spending the 2011-2012 academic year at ESA-DE Business School as a Visiting Professor. She is an Associate Professor and the Fellow at the Center for Professional Respon-sibility in Business and Society at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds cour-tesy appointments at the School of Labor and Employment Rela-tions, the College of Law and the Department of Sociology at Illinois. She received a Graduate Diploma in Business Analysis from the University of Lancaster, a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Uni-versity of Barcelona, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Harvard University.

Prof. Aguilera’s research falls at the intersection of economic so-ciology and international busi-ness, specifically in the fields of comparative corporate governan-ce and corporate social responsibi-lity. Her research has been publis-hed in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Industrial Rela-tions, British Journal of Manage-ment, Business Ethics Quarterly, Corporate Governance: Interna-tional Review, European Sociolo-

gical Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Indus-trial Relations, Journal of Inter-national Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Orga-nization Science and Organization Studies, as well as in several con-ference proceedings and numerous book chapters. She is also the co-editor with Michal Federowicz of the book Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

She is an Associate Editor at Corporate Governance: An Inter-national Review, and is a member of the editorial boards of seven top journals in the fields of manage-ment and international business.

VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS POLICY

BARCELONA-PEDRALBES CAMPUS

Ruth V. Aguilera

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International Corporate Governance is at the core of Corporate and Global Strategy

VISITING PROFESSORSESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011-2012

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Interest Areas> Corporate restructuring and employment relationships> Entrepreneurship and self-employment> Generational dynamics in the workforce> Mergers and acquisitions

About himJohn C. Dencker is spending the 2011-2012 academic year at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Labor and Employ-ment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD and MA in Sociology from Harvard University, and his BA in Economics and US History from Northwestern University.

Professor Dencker’s research examines the effects of corporate restructuring, self-employment public policy initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, and generatio-nal dynamics on the employment relationship. His research has been published in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Human Resource Manage-ment Review, Industrial Rela-tions, International Journal of

Human Resource Management, Organization Science and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management. He received the IDEA Thought Leader Award from

the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management in 2010 for his research on public policy programmes designed to help the unemployed transition to self-employment. He is on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly.

VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION


John Dencker

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Current Challenges in employ-ment relationship dynamics


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Interest areas> Corporate restructuring and employment relationships> Entrepreneurship and self-employment> Generational dynamics in the workforce> Mergers and acquisitions

About himEero Kasanen served as Rector of the Helsinki School of Econo-mics for 14 years, then half a year as Dean of the Aalto University School of Economics. He is now on sabbatical, getting back to the world of research, and wondering what to do if he grows up.

Kasanen has served as the Chairman of the Board of Itella, the national mail company of Finland, and as a board member at several other companies. As a result, he has has cultivated an experience and interest in issues such as governance, ethics, incentives and financial strategy.

His educational background inclu-des degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Turku, a degree in natural resource economics from the Turku School of Economics and a degree in managerial economics from Harvard Business School.

In academic research, Kasanen has published on financial ethics, ear-nings management, real options, financial reporting, dynamics of natural resource utilisation and the history of mathematics. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL


Eero O. Kasanen

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Eero Kasanen is enjoying the sabbatical at ESADE as it pro-vides both excellent personal contacts and new institutional ties between ESADE and Aalto University.


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Academic training> Juris Doctor. Harvard Law School

Interest Areas> Managment consulting> Managing high-growth companies> Business and information services industry > Public company leadership and governance

About himJay McGonigle is the former Chairman and CEO of the Cor-porate Executive Board Company (NASDAQ: EXBD). The company is a leading provider of best practi-ces research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues to more than 5,200 of the world’s largest corporations. Mr. McGonigle joined CEB in 1995 when it was a division of the privately held Advisory Board Co., before leading the company’s spin-out in 1997 and IPO in 1999. He served as Chairman and CEO until mid-2005 and continued as Chairman until 1st January 2008.

Prior to joining CEB, Mr. McGonigle was a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company in New York. In his six years there, he served clients in the US, Belgium, Denmark and Australia in the financial services, telecommuni-cations and information services industries.

In addition to his ongoing advisory work for CEB, Mr. McGonigle serves as the Lead Outside Direc-tor at FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), a provider of software and information to the financial services industry. Mr. McGonigle also serves as a board member and/or advisor to several private companies and non-profit organisations, and on the US State Department’s Advisory Commit-tee on International Economic Policy.

In 2009, Mr. McGonigle became an adjunct professor at George-town University’s McDonough School of Business, where he developed a new course called “Leading the Management Con-sulting Firm.” In 2011–2013 he is teaching at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, as part of a faculty exchan-ge through Georgetown University.

Mr. McGonigle holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS POLICY


James J. McGonigle

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