Pau Virgili, professor of Marketing at Esade, is an expert in new technologies, management, and marketing. Previously, he was the General Manager of Marketing Europe at HP FMCG and Marketing Manager Europe at Plantronics. Pau Virgili has an MBA (University of Chicago) and is a co-author of the book ”The reconciliation with the customer’. Pau has created technology companies in the areas of mobile-business and online marketing and has carried out consultancy projects in consumer relations management for HP, Nike, Coca Cola, and others. He has lived and worked in Spain, USA, Germany, France, UK, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

Dr. Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher, professor, and head of the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets (NOM) unit at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Gino has been honored as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50. 

Paul Green Jr. is a Professor in Management at McCombs School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard Business School. In 2006, after five years as an entrepreneur, Paul joined The Morning Star Company, a California based integrated food processing company, where he co-founded the Morning Star Self-Management Institute. Morning Star, which has been called,” the world’s most creatively managed company” and was named one of Inc. Magazine’s most audacious companies because of their organizational system. Paul won the 2012 Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for his work advancing Self-Management.

Innovation has just what we need nowadays – the power of turning threats into opportunities. We have two classes that are designed to help you and your company do just that. First-class focuses on one innovation project and helps you identify opportunities and tackle challenges in an innovative way. The second class focuses on how innovation can be scaled to help the entire company survive and thrive.

Dr. Ivanka Visnjic is an Associate Professor of Innovation at ESADE Business School and a Research Sponsor at Cambridge Service Alliance, University of Cambridge. Before joining ESADE, Ivanka worked at the consulting firm McKinsey & Co and completed a Ph.D. at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Crisis has always been part of our individual and professional lives. And it has turned out that the best crisis management is to prevent the outbreak of the crisis. Smart strategic management with this respect can be a key competence to either avoid crisis or to get better along with it. The aim of this course is to provide insights on how strategic management can be used as a tool for crisis management.

Dr. Paolo Aversa is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Director of the Full Time MBA at Cass Business School, visiting Professor at the University of Trento (Italy). Before joining Cass, Paolo worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Management Department of the Wharton School. His research featured around 300 times around the world in international media, including in the Financial Times, New York Times, BBC, Sky, Forbes, The Times, etc. In 2018 he was listed among the World’s Best 40 under 40 Professors by Poets and Quant.

Mercedes Segura (MBA from ESADE, CEMS Master from HEC, Paris) has been a manager during the day and an actress at night. Former marketing manager for Procter & Gamble, Coty Lancaster in Paris and Marketing director of PriceWaterhouse Coopers in Luxembourg, she also studied acting at Nancy Tuñón, and performed in amateur theatre groups. Mercedes Segura teaches Oral Communication at ESADE and is a public speaking coach for managers.

Jan Mühlfeit, former Chairman of Microsoft Europe, will walk you through a journey to control your mind and apply mental resilience.

Corporate Entrepreneurship, or Intrapreneurship, is a structured way of thinking and acting like an entrepreneur but inside a company. It is a process-driven approach to identify opportunities that will create new value and generate new revenues by leveraging the assets, skills, resources, and networks of an existing organization to develop new lines of business, products, services or processes within that organization. In this course, you will learn and practice some of the essential skills needed to expand your vision so that you may take entrepreneurial action as well as lead others on your team to create fresh approaches to business and revenue growth.