IMMERSE: The Leader’s Agenda
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João Duque
Dean of ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management of Universidade de Lisboa
PhD in Management from Manchester Business School
Member of the General and Supervisory Board of Caixa Central de Crédito Agrícola Mútuo, C.R.L.
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, SGPS, S.A.
Member of the Fiscal Council of Novabase Capital SA
Belongs to the PSI 20 Steering Committee of Euronext Lisbon SA. - +
Joana Santos Silva
CEO of ISEG Executive Education and Director of the MBA programme at ISEG Executive Education.
Advisor to ISEG’s President for Strategic Development and Professor of Strategy, Digital Transformation, Marketing and Digital Marketing. PhD in Management with a specialisation in Strategy. MBA from Católica-Nova and a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Coimbra. Postgraduate degree from the Kellogg School of Management. Member of the Board as Senior Director for Strategy and Advancement at CATOLICA-LISBON. Director of executive training programmes in the areas of strategic management, marketing, commercial management and healthcare. Member of the Board of Make-a-Wish Portugal. She was honoured with the Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira award, which annually honours a Portuguese woman who has stood out for her entrepreneurial spirit and management skills. Has worked worked in Research and Development, Strategic Marketing & Planning and Business Development in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Colin Mayer, CBE FBA
Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
PhD from Oxford University
Board member on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals
Director of Aurora Energy Research Limited
Honorary Fellow of Oxford
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute
Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal
Trustee of the Oxford Playhouse - +
Sofia Lourenço
PhD in Management, Accounting from Harvard Business School, Harvard University,
Master’s in Management/MBA, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
Degree in Management, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
Associate Professor at ISEG, University of Lisbon
Principal Investigator of the Field Experiments on Incentives Project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology - +
Sara Falcão Casaca
Full Professor at the Higher Institute of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (ISEG-ULisboa).
Researcher and coordinator of CSG – Consortium in Social Sciences and Management
Her main research themes are Gender, Work and Organisations.
Degree in Sociology (ISCTE, 1994), studied at the University of Warwick in the UK, and then obtained a Master’s degree (ISCTE, 1998) and a PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology (ISEG, 2005).
Co-coordinated the European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Gender Relation in the Labour Market and the Welfare State. - +
Bruno Horta Soares
President of the ISACA Lisbon Chapter and IDC executive consultant in the areas of digital transformation, governance, strategy and security.
Certified Project Management Professional by PMI®, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA®), Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT®), Risk and Control of Information Systems and COBIT ® 5 Foundation.
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Joana Pais
Joana Pais is ISEG’s Vice-President for Research. She is Professor of Economics at ISEG, where she coordinates the XLAB-Behavioural Research Lab, the laboratory of the Portuguese consortium PASSDA (Production and Archive of Social Science Data). She is also a researcher at REM-Research in Economics and Mathematics, working on game theory and market design, experimental economics and behavioural economics, having published on topics in these areas in scientific journals such as Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior and International Economic Review. He has coordinated and integrated several national and international research projects, currently coordinating the project Perceptions of (in)justice: labour market, anti-discrimination policies and algorithms, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
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Víctor Barros
Victor Barros is Associate Professor of Finance at ISEG – Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, University of Lisbon. He holds a doctorate in Management and a master’s degree in Finance from ISEG.
His academic background also includes executive courses at international institutions such as Columbia University, Harvard Business School and NYU Stern School of Business. He holds a CFA® licence and is a Portuguese Chartered Accountant.
His teaching focuses mainly on finance in undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, MBA and executive training programmes. He is the coordinator of the Master’s in Finance, the Bachelor’s in Finance and the Executive Programme in Sustainable Finance at ISEG, and is a consultant to ISEG for the CFA Institute Research Challenge. His research focuses on finance, with an emphasis on corporate financial decisions, corporate taxation, tax policy evaluation and sustainable performance/ESG.
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Peter Cohan
Peter Cohan teaches strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and MBA students including courses such as Strategic Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making. He also developed and teaches Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management for undergraduate transfer students.
Cohan joined Babson in May 2002, as an executive-in-residence, advising teams in their consulting work with companies through Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) programs.
In June 2016, he was promoted to a full-time Lecturer of Strategy. And in August 2022, Babson appointed him an Associate Professor of Management Practice.
DEVELOP: The Leader’s Journey
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Stephan Meier
Chair of the Management Division and the James P. Gorman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich
PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich
Has been profiled by the press such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Neue Zuercher Zeitung. - +
Sheena Iyengar
S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University
B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Former Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
Top 50 most influential business thinkers by Thinkers50
One of the world’s best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants - +
Paul Ingram
Kravis Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Faculty Director of the Advanced Management Program
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School
PhD from Cornell University
Former faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Toronto - +
Stephan Meier
James P. Gorman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Chair of Management Division
PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich
Senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank
Former Professor at Harvard University and the University of Zurich - +
Chris Washburne
Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Columbia University
Founder and director of Columbia’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
PhD Ethnomusicology
BM University of Wisconsin
Master New England Conservatory - +
Moran Cerf
Academic Director in Executive Education
Adjunct Professor of Business, Marketing Division
PhD in Neuroscience from Caltech
MA in Philosophy
BSc in Physics from Tel-Aviv University
Professor of Neuroscience and Business at the Kellogg School of Management
Taught leadership and marketing at NYU
Conducted research in neuroscience, focusing on psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decisions, and dreams
Authored nearly 90 academic publications
Published in journals like Nature, Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist, and more
Published books, including “Brain Imaging: An Illustrated Guide to the Future of Neuroscience”
Board member of neuro-tech companies (Nervanix, X-Trodes, BestFit)
Co-founder of ThinkAlike
Consultant to companies like Ferrari, Viacom, TransUnion, Nielsen, Founders Pledge, and the U.S. Government
Named one of the “40 leading professors below 40” - +
Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after advisor and speaker, and a longtime faculty member at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. McGrath’s recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).
At Columbia, Rita directs the popular Executive Education course Leading Strategic Growth and Change. She guest-lectures in a number of other courses, including the flagship Advanced Management Program, and is active in other Columbia initiatives such as the launch of its Think Bigger Innovation Hub. She also acts as faculty director for some of Columbia’s prestigious custom programs offerings, learning experiences designed specifically for individual organizations.
Rita is one of the most frequent contributors to the Harvard Business Review. Her most recent article is The Permissionless Corporation (Jan/Feb, 2023). She also publishes regularly in other premier journals such as the MIT Sloan Management Review. Her work on discovery-driven growth was praised by the late legendary management thinker Clayton Christensen as offering “some of the most important tools of management and strategy that have ever been developed.”
Rita was awarded the prestigious C. K. Prahalad award from the Strategic Management Society, an award for scholarly impact on practice. She has won many other awards for her work and impact, including the “Theory to Practice” award from the Vienna Strategy Forum, the “best paper” award from the Academy of Management Review and multiple “best book” awards for her work.
McGrath received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.
His academic background also includes executive courses at international institutions such as Columbia University, Harvard Business School and NYU Stern School of Business. He holds a CFA® licence and is a Portuguese Chartered Accountant.His teaching focuses mainly on finance in undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, MBA and executive training programmes. He is the coordinator of the Master’s in Finance, the Bachelor’s in Finance and the Executive Programme in Sustainable Finance at ISEG, and is a consultant to ISEG for the CFA Institute Research Challenge. His research focuses on finance, with an emphasis on corporate financial decisions, corporate taxation, tax policy evaluation and sustainable performance/ESG.
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Hitendra Wadhwa
Hitendra Wadhwa is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and founder of the Mentora Institute. He teaches Columbia’s most popular MBA leadership class on Personal Leadership & Success. He also teaches MBA and Executive Education programs on Driving Strategic Impact and Leading from the Inside Out, and has received the Executive-MBA Commitment to Excellence Award, the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the Lear Award for Service to Students, and the Columbia Marketing Association Award for the Most Dynamic and Engaging Professor.
Hitendra’s mission is to codify and teach scientific principles of success in life and leadership. With a Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, Hitendra brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, human potential, and more. His widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership have been covered by Inc., Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. His weekly webcast, Intersections, features acclaimed thought leaders and practitioners in the craft of leadership.
Hitendra’s Mentora Institute is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership for the 21st century where executives achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through ever-deepening Inner Mastery. Through its digital learning platform, Mentora has created a pocket “flight simulator” for leadership that helps learners gain mastery in a wide range of leadership skills through MicroPracticeTM. His clients include Accenture, SAP, Pfizer, Tata Group, Ericsson, GE, Kraft Heinz, Siemens, a Big-4 Accounting Firm and Morgan Stanley.
In the past, Hitendra was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up, Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire.