Adrian
Caldart

Associate Professor of the Practice of Management of Strategic Management

• PhD in Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
• M.Sc. in Management and Economics, ESEADE
• B.Sc. in Accounting and B.Sc. in Business Administration, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
• BA in Management, Universidad Católica Argentina

Adrián Caldart is B.Sc. in Accounting and B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, M.Sc. in Management and Economics from ESEADE (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Ph.D. in Management from IESE Business School.

Prof. Caldart has started teaching at IESE in 2006 across most of the school’s degree and executive programs. He is currently the Academic Director of the IESE ONE EMBA and of the IESE Barcelona EMBA Program. Since 2003, Adrián has also collaborated very actively  with IESE’s affiliated business school in Portugal (AESE Business School) where he is the Academic Director of the Business Policy Department and President of the Academic Council of the School. Adrián has also been a consultant in Strategy and Organization in Spanish, Portuguese, and Argentine business firms and public organizations.

After graduating from IESE in 2003, Prof. Caldart worked for five years as a full-time professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School (Coventry, United Kingdom) reaching the position of Associate Professor. Before joining academia, he worked over seven years in the Corporate Center of the industrial conglomerate Pérez Companc (Argentina) as a trader in energy derivatives and money markets, and as an executive in Strategic Planning and Control.

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Areas of interest.

• Corporate-level Strategy
• International Strategy
• The Agenda of the CEO
• The Food and Beverage Sector

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

PISANI, N., CALDART, A., HOPMA, J. (2017). SMEs' Formation of Minority International Joint Ventures and Level of Internationalization. The Moderating Role of a Global Versus Regional Focus. European Management Journal, 35 (3), 414 - 424. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2016.08.006. CANALES, J. I., CALDART, A. (2017). Encouraging Emergence of Cross-Business Strategic Initiatives. European Management Journal, 35 (3), 300 - 313. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2016.10.003. CALDART, A., VASSOLO, R., SILVESTRI, L. (2014). Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation. Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, 12 (2), 123 - 151. doi:10.1108/MRJIAM-07-2012-0488. CALDART, A., OLIVEIRA, F. (2010). Analysing Industry Profitability: A "Complexity as Cause" Perspective. European Management Journal, 28 (2), 95 - 107. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2009.04.004. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2007). Corporate Strategy: An Agent-Based Approach. European Management Review, 4 (2), 107 - 120. doi:10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500077. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2004). Corporate strategy revisited: A view from complexity theory. European Management Review, 1 (1), 96 - 104. doi:10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500005.

Working Papers

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2006). A formal evaluation of the performance of different corporate styles in stable and turbulent environments (DI-621-E). CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2006). Corporate strategy in turbulent environments: Key roles of the corporate level (DI-623-E). CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2003). Corporate strategy revisited: A view from complexity theory (DI-528-E).

Proceedings

CALDART, A., VASSOLO, R., SILVESTRI, L. (2010). Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings.

Articles in other publications

CALDART, A., MORENO, JUAN, J. (2023). Tesla y el nuevo sector de automoción: ¿realidad o ilusión?. Casos prácticos. Harvard Deusto Business Review (330). ÁGUA, P., PROAÑO, Á., CALDART, A. (2022). ¿Cómo va a ser la estrategia empresarial post-pandémica?. La necesidad de un marco holístico. Harvard Deusto Business Review (324). CALDART, A., GIFRA, J., AKHMEDOVA, A. (2021). ¿Cómo será el consumidor del futuro?. Tendencias pospandemia en el sector de la alimentación y bebidas. Harvard Deusto Business Review (311). CALDART, A. (2020). Repensar la postura estratégica de la empresa en tiempos de crisis. Harvard Deusto Business Review (306). CALDART, A., GIFRA, J., AKHMEDOVA, A. (2019). Internacionalización: ¿Cómo definir la atractividad de un país para mi empresa? El caso del sector de alimentación y bebidas. Harvard Deusto Business Review (287).

Books

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., CARRERA, A. (2020). General Management in Latin and Ibero-American organizations. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. ROBERTSON D.,, CALDART, A. (2009). The Dynamics of Strategy. Mastering Strategic Landscapes of the Firm. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

Edited books

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., CARRERA, A. (2019). General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

CHAMAS, E., CALDART, A. (2019). Entrepreneurship in the digital economy: Latin American "unicorns". In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2019).
Stakeholder salience in Latin America: Who really counts?
. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2019). Introduction: The practice of general management. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2019). The agenda of the chief executive officer. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. ROSENBERG, M., CALDART, A., SEAGER, P. (2017). Strategy: The Soul of Your Business. In Mike Rosenberg and Philip H. Seager (Ed.), Managing Media Businesses: A Game Plan to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty (pp. 15 - 35).

Studies

CALDART, A., AKHMEDOVA, A., GIFRA, J. (2021). La crisis del COVID-19 en el sector de alimentación y bebidas. Impacto y futuro. IESE. CALDART, A., GIFRA, J., PASAMÓN, F. (2019). Vademecum on Food and Beverage Markets. Food and Beverage Attractiveness Index 2017-2018.

Cases

BERRONE, P., CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2024). Tesla in the 2020s: moment of truth for the "Master Plan" (Update 2024). IESE, SM-1764-E. , ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET, CALDART, A. (2022). La estrategia corporativa de Ebro Foods en el 2021. IESE, SM-1734. , ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET, CALDART, A. (2022). The Corporate Strategy of Ebro Foods in 2021. IESE, SM-1734-E. BERRONE, P., CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2021). Tesla in the 2020s: Moment of Truth for the "Master Plan". IESE, SM-1707-E. CALDART, A., CANALS, J. (2019). Almirall. Orientando el futuro de la empresa. IESE, SM-1686.

Technical Notes

CALDART, A. (2024). Estrategia corporativa. La diversificación sectorial. IESE, SMN-712. CALDART, A. (2024). Corporate strategy. Sectoral diversification. IESE, SMN-712-E. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2001). Strategy in Turbulent Environments. Organizations as Nonlinear Feedback Systems. IESE, DGN-619-E. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2001). An Introduction to Real Options. Incorporating Flexibility to Quantitative Strategic Analysis. IESE, DGN-616-E.