COMMITEE
Chairs
Jaqueline Pels, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Jaqueline Pels is Director of the Inclusive Business Think Tank (ENI-DiTella) and professor of marketing at the University Torcuato Di Tella Business School, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research experience is in the areas of inclusive business, emerging economies, marketing theory, and relationship and networking marketing.
Her publications have appeared in leading international journals including Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Marketing Theory, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Relationship Marketing, amongst others. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing, Marketing Theory, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, amongst others.
Jaqueline holds a PhD in Business Administration from Leicester University, UK.
Erica Salvaj, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile & Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Erica Salvaj is Professor of General Management and Strategy at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), Chile and Visiting Scholar at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina. Her primary fields of research are strategy, leadership, organizational change, social networks, corporate governance and business history.
She was GCEE Fellow at Babson College and has received fellowships and research grants from the Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Chile (CONICYT) and Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica de Argentina (CONICET). Recently she has been awarded with the fellowship “Alfred Chandler” from Harvard Business School and the Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship.
Her publications have appeared in leading journals including Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Research, Harvard Business Review, Business History, Enterprise and Society, Business History Review, Corporate Governance: an International Review, Harvard Deusto Business Review, Academy of Management Proceedings and IESE Insights, among others.
Erica completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration at IESE Business School, Barcelona.
Keynote Speakers
Álvaro Cuervo Cazurra is a Professor of Global Strategy and the Lloyd Mullin Research Fellow at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, USA.
He is also the Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor at Thammasat University, Thailand; Senior Fellow at the Center for Emerging Market Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and Faculty Associate at the Center for Emerging Markets and at the Business Sustainability Initiative, both at Northeastern University, USA. Besides, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, the top association of international business scholars, in 2016. He is an expert on global strategy, and study three topics in his highly-awarded research: the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals; capability upgrading, particularly technological capabilities; and governance challenges, focusing on corruption in international business.
Álvaro has received an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, in 2019.
Fernando Rocchi is an Emeritus Professor at the Historical and Social Department at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), Argentina. He has been Director of the HS Department – UTDT, and Director of its History postgraduate program and La Nación-UTDT Master in Journalism.
He has also been a Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Beijing and Nankai Universities (China), Universitat de Barcelona, CSIC-Centro de Estudios Históricos (Madrid), Universität Hamburg, Saint Antony’s College (Oxford) and Warwick University.
He is an expert on advertising origins, history of industry and history of consumption in Argentina, as well as on the influence of industry on Argentinian federal issues and the historiographical debate on studies of consumption in Latin America.
Fernando holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and completed his Postdoctoral studies in Economic History as a visiting researcher in London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, in 1999.
Sergio G. Lazzarini is a Full Professor at Insper. He was Dean of Research Degree Programs at Insper and he was Director of Insper’s Center for Strategy. He was visiting professor at Harvard University in 2010 and in 2012.
He does research on strategic management, with particular emphasis on how emerging market contexts affect business strategy, and the organization of the public-private interactions. He has worked in partnership with various nonprofit organizations to disseminate the so-called “impact investments” to obtain measurable social results as well as financial returns. In this context, Lazzarini coordinates Center for the Measurement of Social and Environmental Impact Investments (Insper Metricis).
He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Track Chairs
Dr. Amorós is Professor and Doctoral Programs Director at EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Until December 2015 he was the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute at Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from ESADE Business School.
Andrés Barrios is Associate Professor of marketing at Universidad de Los Andes - Bogotá, Colombia. He holds a PhD in Marketing from Lancaster University, UK. Andrés’ research analyzes the intersections among markets, development and social conflicts, from different theoretical perspectives.
Diego Finchelstein is an Assistant Professor at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) and a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas of Argentina (CONICET). He holds a PhD from Northwestern University.
María José Murcia (PhD), University of British Columbia; MBA, IAE Business School; BA in Economics (Hons.), Universidad de Buenos Aires. Dr. Murcia is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Sustainability at IAE Business School, Universidad Austral (Argentina) and a Visiting Professor at University of British Columbia (Canada).
Santiago Mingo is an Associate Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez’s School of Business in Santiago de Chile. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. Santiago’s research explores how the institutional and business environment affects corporate strategy, global strategy, and entrepreneurial activity.
Carlos is an Assistant Professor at INCAE Business School. He teaches in the Strategy and Organizational Change areas. He holds a PhD from McGill University (Canada).
II, PhD - Columbia University, is Professor and Kellstadt Chair of Marketing at Loyola University Chicago. He has expertise in macromarketing and policy in transitioning and recovering economies.
Venue & Accommodation
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) has positioned itself among the top higher education institutions in Argentina and in Latin America. With a strong commitment to academic excellence, equal opportunity and pluralism, the University´s mission is to educate new generations of academic, social, political and business leaders, and to advance research and scholarship in the arts and sciences.
The School of Business is an important hub of production of new ideas and knowledge for the business community both in Argentina and in Latin America. It is also renowned for its pedagogic excellence, which is applied to its undergraduate, graduate and executive education programs. Our objective is to form the best business leaders in the region and to contribute to knowledge production through state-of-the art academic research. This is carried out by our professors, who were educated in the top European and North American universities, and who have experience in the most successful companies world-wide. Academic excellence, international perspective and a vigorous community of students and alumni are the Business School´s distinctive characteristics.
How to get here
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350 - [C1428BCW] Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The university has a free shuttle bus that connects with the main bus & subway stops in the Belgrano neighborhood.
Agenda
Novedades
Melani Machinea es la nueva directora académica y Carlos Loisi el nuevo director ejecutivo del MBA y Executive MBA de Di Tella, El MBA Di Tella, #1 de Argentina en Fortaleza Académica, Retorno sobre la Inversión y Producción de Conocimiento
Ranking por América Economía Publicación de Fabiana Penas y coautores seleccionada para un número especial de la Review of Finance Joaquín Navajas es el nuevo director del Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella La Maestría en Finanzas de la Di Tella renueva su equipo directivo
Julio Fermo será el nuevo director académico del programa y la dirección ejecutiva quedará a cargo de Guadalupe Sanz