Luisa Alemany
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting in ESADE, URL Associate Professor at ESADE Business School
Associate Professor Management Practice. Academic Director, Inst. Entrepreneurship & Private Capital, MBA (Stanford) BBA PhD (Spain) at London Business School
Schools
- London Business School
- ESADE Business School
- Amsterdam Institute of Finance
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Biography
ESADE Business School
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).
London Business School
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 209-228Emprendimiento innovador y crecimiento económico: abriendo la caja negra desde la investigación académica
Urriolagoitia L; Alemany L
Informacion Comercial Española (ICE) 2018 Vol 904 p 11-24Entrepreneurial finance: the art and science of growing ventures
Alemany L; Andreoli J
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018Introduction 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. 2-22The 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. 562-582Valor 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 33-55Valuation 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 6-18Iniciativa 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 ATrip4real: Negotiating Series (A)
Alemany L; Trenchs C; Urriolagoitia L; Jenkins S
Videos
A breakfast with Michael Moore, Director General, BVCA
TEDxESADE - Luisa Alemany - Entrepreneurship in Spain-Impossible Mission?
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