Professor Inés Alegre is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences and holds a Ph.D. in Management from IESE and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Her research focuses on new organizational forms in the sharing economy such as collaborative consumption platforms, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and social enterprises. In this blog…
Carles Vergara-Alert is an Associate Professor at the IESE’s Financial Management Department. His research focuses on how frictions in the real estate markets affect the decisions of investors, managers and households. In this blog entry, he shares personal insights about himself as well as advice for current MBAs. He talks about the importance of constantly reinventing yourself and…
The President of the University of Navarra, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, has appointed Franz Heukamp as the new Dean of IESE Business School. The decision was made following a three-month period, after considering the recommendations of the Advisory Search Committee comprised of members of IESE’s board, faculty, staff and prominent alumni. Franz Heukamp’s appointment will be effective…
Thanks to Professor Joan Jane, a small group of students have been introduced to local social enterprises that are seeking professional consulting but are not able to afford it. It has given us a chance to apply our learnings in the classroom to real life situations before graduation, and most importantly the opportunity to do this…
Walk into Wallkill Correctional, a medium-security prison in in the remote city of Shawangunk (New York State). Continue on through its gloomy corridors and you’ll come across a group of 50 inmates. Your mission? To convince them that they could become “the richest people in the world.” How likely is it, that faced with a…