CROSSROADS THE FACULTY INCLUDES 114 PROFESSORS OF 22 NATIONALITIES
Six New Appointments to the IESE Faculty
From left to right: Sampsa Samila, Tobias Dennerlein, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Sanja Tumbas, David Wehrheim and Johannes Müller-Trede.
The IESE faculty continues to l grow, with six new additions for the 2017-2018 academic year. Sebastian Hafenbrädl, who earned a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) at the Université de Lausanne, will
Faculty Skill Building: International Faculty Program l A total of 24 professors from 14 countries across four continents participated in the 25th edition of the International Faculty Program (IFP) in June. This program empowers professors to enhance their teaching and leadership capabilities. The academic director of the IFP, Prof. Miguel A. Ariño, says the program is designed to challenge the status quo of the participants’ academic work. It helps them identify their strengths and areas for improvement and prepares them to use the case method effectively.
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serve as assistant professor in the department of managing people in organizations. Johannes Müller-Trede, who holds a doctorate from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, will take up the same post, but this time
in the department of managerial decision sciences. Sampsa Samila, holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will occupy this position in the department of strategic management. Holder of a doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at Universität Liechtenstein, Sanja Tumbas will join the department of information systems, also as assistant professor. Also stepping into this position is David Wehrheim, who earned a Ph.D. from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in the department of strategic management. Lastly, Tobias Dennerlein, holder of a doctorate from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, joins the department of managing people in organizations as postdoctoral fellow.
HBS-IESE COMMITTEE MEETING
Sharing Goals: Innovating In Education Innovating for progress. This is l a clear objective throughout the business world and business schools are no exception, as seen in the Harvard Business School-IESE Committee meeting on June 5 in Boston. What improvements can new technologies bring? What are the implications on business models and knowledge generation? How can program formats and content be optimized? These were some of the questions ad-
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dressed at the meeting, attended by Harvard Business School (HBS) Profs. Srikant M. Datar, W. Carl Kester, Das Narayandas and Richard H.K. Vietor and, from IESE, Profs. Franz Heukamp, José L. Nueno, Joan E. Ricart and Eric Weber. Through the committee, since 1963, IESE has an annual forum for the exchange of ideas with HBS, a school that also seeks innovation by maintaining the case method as a core component.
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