Victor Martínez de Albéniz is a Full Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at IESE Business School. He joined IESE in 2004 after earning a PhD from the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an engineering degree from École Polytechnique in France.
At IESE, he has served as Department Chair and Director of the Research Division. He currently leads the IESE Initiative for Social Development, which focuses on improving public management policies through data-driven research centered on territorial, economic, and human development in the public domain.
His research spans a broad spectrum of Operations Management. He began his career working on supply chain management, optimizing inventory and purchasing systems to combine low costs with flexibility and innovation. He then moved into the retail sector, developing fashion trend forecasts, leveraging big data to respond to demand shocks, and optimizing the in-store customer experience. More recently, he has applied his expertise to improving education systems.
His work has been published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He has received support from the European Research Council (ERC), Spain’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the La Caixa Foundation. He was awarded the Sabadell Herrero Prize for Economic Research in 2015 and the MSOM Young Scholar Prize in 2018. He has also served on the editorial boards of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management, and was a Department Editor for Management Science from 2018 to 2025.
Professor Martínez de Albéniz teaches courses on operations management, operations strategy, advanced methods for operations, and new product development at IESE, both in the MBA and executive programs. He has also taught at institutions including MIT, MDE (Ivory Coast), and the Indian School of Business.
In addition, he has founded two analytics startups in the retail sector—Datactions and Robinbrick—and has played an active role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) there.
Areas of interest
Retail
Education
Services
Supply chain management
Some additional information
An overview of my research from IESE Insight
From 2015 to 2019, I ran the Fashion Operations Conference, an annual event with participants from industry and academia. Information about the 1st edition in March 2015 at IESE (Barcelona), the 2nd edition in May 2016 at Koç University (Istanbul), the 3rd edition in February 2017 at IESE (New York), the 4th edition in April 2018 at McGill University (Montreal), the 5th edition in October 2019 at Imperial College (London). We stopped the conference after COVID. Instead, I am now active in the EURO Working Group on Retail Operations, in which I co-organized the 2019 and 2025 editions.