Luis Vives

Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management in ESADE, URL Associate Professor, Associate Dean, MBA FT Unit at Aalto University School of Business

Deputy Dean for Programmes at ESADE Business School

Biography

Aalto University School of Business

Dr. Luis Vives is the Associate Dean of The ESADE MBA, Director of the Multinational MBA and Associate Professor of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School. Dr. Vives joined ESADE in 2006 and has held various positions of responsibility within ESADE.

Previous to joining ESADE, Dr. Vives was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and holds a PhD from IESE Business School, and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration, Piano Performance and Music Theory. He has been a visiting professor at different Universities in Europe and Latin America.

As a lecturer and consultant, Dr. Vives has worked with multinational companies in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East across different sectors: banking and insurance, telecommunications, wines and spirits, pharmaceuticals, creative industries, logistics and industrial groups, working for companies and organizations such as the FIA, Telefonica, Repsol, Sberbank, SIPG, Telekom Austria Group, or the Bayer Group, among others.

His research focuses on the creation and development of innovative business models. His work has appeared in: Sloan Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Long Range Planning, Advances in International Management, Advances in Strategic Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, as well as in several books on international business.

Doctor Vives advises companies in different industries and sits in different boards. He is also a member of the editorial board of three scientific journals, and is Consulting Editor of Harvard Deusto Business Review.

ESADE Business School

Education

  • Doctor of Business Administration. university of Navarra
  • Bachelor in Business Administration. university of Navarra

Areas of interest

  • Growth Strategies
  • Innovation Management
  • digital transformation
  • Business Models

Professor Luis Vives is the Deputy Dean for Programs and Associate Professor of General Management and Strategy at ESADE Business School. He joined ESADE in 2006 and has held various positions of responsibility within ESADE.

Professor Vives academic credentials include Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D. at IESE Business School, Bachelor in Business Administration, Bachelor in Piano Performance and Music Theory. He has been a visiting professor at different Universities in Europe and Latin America, and was awarded different teaching prizes.

As a lecturer and consultant, Professor Vives has worked with multinational companies in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East across different sectors: banking and insurance, telecommunications, wines and spirits, pharmaceuticals, creative industries, logistics and industrial groups, working for companies and organizations such as Bayer, IKEA, Samsung, Stora Enso, Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), Sberbank, Mobily, Mapfre, Repsol, Telekom Austria Group, among others.

His research focuses on the creation and development of innovative business models. His work by him has appeared in: Sloan Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Long Range Planning, Advances in International Management, Advances in Strategic Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, as well as in several books on international business. Professor Vives advises companies in different industries and sits on different boards.

Selected publications

  • You live, L. (2015). The FinTech revolution: the case of Kantox. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (249), pp. 76-82.
  • You live, L. (2015). SMEs + Innovation: It is not just a matter of size but of attitude. Spanish Commercial Information: Economy Magazine, (885), pp. 57-64.
  • Vives, L., Hugas Sabater, J. & Ilie, C. (2015). Corporate universities, aligning people and strategy. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (247), pp. 64-75.
  • You live, L. (2015). The revolution of the platform economy. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (243), pp. 52-63.
  • Morgenstern de Muller, A. & Vives, L. (2014). What can be learned from the video game industry? Harvard Deusto Business Review, (233), pp. 16-26.
  • Collet, F. & Vives, L. (2013). From preeminence to prominence: The fall of US business schools and the rise of European and Asian business schools in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 12 (4), pp. 540-563. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2011.0094.
  • Lessard, D., Lucea, R. & Vives, L. (2013). Building your company's capabilities through global expansion. MIT Sloan Management Review, 54 (2), p. 61-67.
  • You live, L. & Kalinowski, M. (2012). Annual Forum of the Virtual Center. The Spanish company in a global world: opportunities and threats in emerging countries. Experiences, (5), p. 1-13.
  • Gimeno Sandig, A. & Vives, L. (2012). The internationalization of the Spanish family business. Experiences, (5), p. 1-16.
  • Kalinowski, M. & Vives, L. (2011, November). Emerging market multinationals: Competing through business models [Paper presentation]. SMS 31st Annual International Conference, Miami.
  • Svejenova Velikova, S., Strandgaard Pedersen, J. & Vives, L. (2011). Projects of passion: Lessons for strategy from temporary art. Advances in Strategic Management: A Research Annual, 28, pp. 501-527.
  • Vives, L. & Svejenova Velikova, S. (2011). To, from and beyond the margins: Business models: Towards an integrative framework. Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, 9 (3), pp. 230-242.
  • Dolan, S., Parada, M., Mendoza Mayordomo, F., Puig Bastard, P., Sabal Cárdenas, J. & Vives, L. (2010). The Spanish multinational before a new international scenario. Second annual report of the Observatory of the Spanish Multinational Company (OEME). ESADE Business School, ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade).
  • You live, L. & Mendoza Mayordomo, F. (2010). The multinationalization process of Spanish companies: challenges and opportunities. In P. Puig Bastard (Coord.), The Spanish multinational facing a new international scenario. Second annual report of the Observatory of the Spanish Multinational Company (OEME), pp. 122-165. ESADE Business School, ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade).
  • Alfaro Faus, M., Arenas, D., Batllori Lloveras, G., Bieto Caubet, E., Bonache, JA, Busquets Carretero, J., Cano Giner, J., Casaburi, I., Colet Petit, E., Fabregat Feldsztajn, J., Fontcuberta Llanes, J., Garcia Gay, R., García Lancha, O., Gimbert Ràfols, X., Heras Forcada, M., Iglesias, O., Mària Serrano, J., Parada, M ., Platikanova, P., ... Wareham, J. (2010). Batllori Lloveras, G. (Ed.), The ESADE MBA: all the knowledge to achieve professional success. Planet.
  • Kalinowski, M. & Vives, L. (2010, August). Business model transformation: Towards a research agenda [Paper presentation]. 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal.
  • Vives, L., Lucea, R., Cuervo Cazurra, A., Rugman, A., Ambos, B. & Lessard, D. (2010, August). Regional multinationals: Looking backward and looking forward [Paper presentation]. 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal.
  • Vives, L., Asakawa, K. & Svejenova Velikova, S. (2010). Innovation and the multinational enterprise. In T. Devinney, T. Pedersen & L. Tihanyi (Eds.), The past, present and future of international business and management, pp. 497-523. Emerald.
  • Svejenova Velikova, S., Vives, L. & Alvarez Alvarez, J. (2010). At the crossroads of agency and communion: Defining the shared career. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31 (5), pp. 707-725.
  • Svejenova Velikova, S., Planellas Arán, M. & Vives, L. (2010). An individual business model in the making: A chef's quest for creative freedom. Long Range Planning, 43 (2-3), pp. 408-430.
  • Svejenova Velikova, S., Planellas Arán, M. & Vives, L. (2010, March). An individual business model in the making: A chef's quest for creative freedom [Paper presentation]. SCANCOR Seminar Series (Invited presentation) Stanford 2010, Stanford.

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