Eduard
Calvo

Eduardo Calvo is full professor in the Department of Operations, Information, and Technology at IESE Business School. He is the CELSA Chair of Competitiveness in Manufacturing and serves as Associate Director of the Faculty Division. An electrical engineer by training, he holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and has been visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) several times. In 2005, he received the Salvà i Campillo Award to the Best Young Engineer by the Association of Electrical Engineers of Catalonia. In 2014, he appeared among the world’s top 40 business school professors under the age of 40. In 2019, his research received an honorable mention at M&SOM’s Practice-Based Research Competition.

Professor Calvo does empirical research in operations management, and is an expert on analyzing massive datasets for the obtention of causal inferences relevant to top management teams. His research works—published in top academic journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management—span online retail, procurement, and supply chain management.

Professor Calvo is the director of the Industrial Excellence Award in Spain—a competition that benchmarks European competitiveness in the industrial and service sectors—and of IESE’s Initiative for the Excellence in Operations (INEO)—a community of practice comprising the C-level executives of +15 manufacturing companies. Thanks to this, he has visited the plants and discussed the operations strategy with the top management teams of +100 industrial companies. After interacting with +50 companies through consulting and advisory engagements, his external activities are currently focused one serving as acting COO of the foodtech Hunger Brands, a virtual brand operator.