Christoph
Loch
Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
• Ph.D, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Christoph Loch joins the Operations, Information and Technology Department of IESE as a Professor. He was a chaired professor at INSEAD (1994-2011), is still a professor at the Cambridge Judge Business School, where he served as Dean from 2011-2021, and he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science.
His research examines how organizations can make innovation happen, including executing as well as modifying strategy (strategy execution), managing uncertainty and complexity, and managing the motivation of professional employees to offer their best effort and ideas.
He is keen on doing research that achieves impact, and he has consulted with organizations (small and large companies as well as nonprofits) in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He spent a year as a visiting professor in China in 2023-2024.