{"id":2,"date":"2025-10-27T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:39:24","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Welcome!<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m Laura Wagner, Associate Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iese.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">IESE Business School<\/a>. Before joining IESE, I taught everything from undergraduate to executive MBA courses at Cat\u00f3lica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. My academic journey has taken me across Europe \u2014 I earned a degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from the Technical University of Graz, an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, and a PhD from the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center. Along the way, I spent time at MIT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a postdoc year right here at IESE.<\/p>\r\n<p>My research blends theory, data, and real-world insights \u2014 focusing on assortment planning, consumer choice, and causal inference in retail. I love collaborating with fashion and grocery retailers (and more recently telecom companies) to tackle complex, data-driven challenges.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can find my work in top journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management, and European Journal of Operational Research.<\/p>\r\n<p>Before academia, I worked in the real world of operations \u2014 from logistics consulting to product and program management at Bosch Rexroth, ThyssenKrupp Presta, and others.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I\u2019m Laura Wagner, Associate Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at\u00a0IESE Business School. Before joining IESE, I taught everything from undergraduate to executive MBA courses at Cat\u00f3lica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. My academic journey has taken me across Europe \u2014 I earned a degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/wagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}