Luisa Alemany

Luisa Alemany is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She was formerly at ESADE Business School and a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Her main areas of interest are Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Education, Business Angels, and Venture Philanthropy. She holds a MBA from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics and Business from Universidad Complutense (Madrid).

Luisa began her career as a Financial Analyst at Procter & Gamble in Madrid. She subsequently worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. Later, she worked at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division, in the venture capital fund Europ@Web and as a Senior Associate of the American private equity fund The Carlyle Group, in its European buyout team.

Luisa Alemany was the director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute for nine years (2009-2017) and the academic sponsor of ESADE BAN (Business Angels Network), that was awarded the Best BAN in Europe in 2016. She seats in the investment committee of two early stage investors and is involved in Rising Tide Europe I and II, the first European Women-only business angels’ fund. In the past, she was in the Board of EBAN, the European Business Angels Network.

Her research is published in top academic journals and she has written several books, the most recent being “Entrepreneurial Finance: The Art and Science of Growing Ventures” (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the first European textbook on the topic.

She has taught at the Master of Science, MBA and executive education level in different programs in London, Oxford, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Milan, Miami, Mexico and Shanghai. She has received the Best Teacher Award 2017, ESADE’s Executive Master in Finance and her case “Scytl”, regarding exits options for investors, was honored Best Entrepreneurship Case Award by EFMD (2017).

Publications

2021

• A gendered view of risk taking in Venture Philanthropy
  Zacharakis A; Alemany L; Scarlata M G
  Journal of Social Entrepreneurship 2021 Online first

2018

• Corporate venture capital innovación para las grandes corporaciones desde el mundo de las startups (Corporate Venture Capital: Innovation for the Big Corporations from the Startups World)
  Alemany L; Trenchs C
  Revista Espanola de Capital Riesgo 2018 Vol 5 p 209-228

• Emprendimiento innovador y crecimiento económico: abriendo la caja negra desde la investigación académica
  Urriolagoitia L; Alemany L
  Informacion Comercial Española (ICE) 2018 Vol 904 p 11-24

• Entrepreneurial finance: the art and science of growing ventures
  Alemany L; Andreoli J
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

• Introduction to Entrepreneurial Finance
  Alemany L; Andreoli J
  in: Alemany, L and Andreoli, J (eds) Entrepreneurial finance: the art and science of growing ventures. Cambridge University Press, pp. 2-22

• The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance
  Alemany L; Andreoli J
  in: Alemany, L and Andreoli, J (eds) Entrepreneurial finance: the art and science of growing ventures. Cambridge University Press, pp. 562-582

• Valor anadido de los venture capital a las startups: preferencias de los emprendedores e inversores
  Ruano L A; Alemany L; Fernandez R; Rodriguez J E
  Revista Espanola de Capital Riesgo 2018 Vol 2018:1 p 33-55

• Valuation of New Ventures
  Alemany L; Andreoli J
  in: Alemany, L and Andreoli, J (eds) Entrepreneurial finance: the art and science of growing ventures. Cambridge University Press, pp. 214-248

2017

• El capital riesgo filantrópico en España: situación y perspectivas (Philanthropic venture capital in Spain: Current situation and future perspectives)
  del Pozo L; Alemany L
  Anuario de Capital Riesgo 2017 Vol 2017 p 301-318
  

2015

• Momentum project: buscando el equilibrio entre la creacion de valor economico y valor social
  Alemany L; Vernis A
  ICADE: Revista de las Facultades de Derecho y Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales 2015 Vol 94 p 89-117
  

2014

• 'Crowdfunding': nueva forma de financiación para los emprendedores
  Alemany L; Bultó I
  Harvard Deusto Business Review 2014 Vol 237 p 6-18

• Iniciativa emprendedora y jóvenes en España
  Alemany L; Urriolagoitia L
  Informacion Comercial Española (ICE) 2014 Vol 881 p 101-119

Books and cases

2019

• BanaPads: To grow or not to grow? That is the question
  Alemany L; Andreo N; Gutierrez A

• Trip4real: Negotiating Series (A)
  Alemany L; Trenchs C; Urriolagoitia L; Jenkins S