Eduard
Calvo

Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

CELSA Chair of Competitiveness in Manufacturing

• Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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.

Areas of interest.

• Operations management in telecommunications
• Strategic network optimization
• Decision analysis

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

WAGNER, L., CALVO, E., AMORIM, P. (2023). Better Together! The Consumer Implications of Delivery Consolidation. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25 (3), 903-920. doi:10.1287/msom.2023.1200. CALVO, E., CUI, R., WAGNER, L. (2023). Disclosing product availability in online retail. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25 (2), 427 - 447. doi:10.1287/msom.2020.0882. CALVO, E., CUI, R., SERPA, J. C. (2019). Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis. Management Science, 65 (12), 5651 - 5675. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2018.3202. MARTÍNEZ DE ALBÉNIZ, V., CALVO, E. (2016). Sourcing Strategies and Supplier Incentives for Short Life-Cycle Goods. Management Science, 62 (2), 436 - 455. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2014.2138. CALVO, E., MUÑOZ MEDINA, O., VIDAL MANZANO, J., AGUSTÍN DE DIOS, A. (2012). Downlink Coordinated Radio Resource Management in Cellular Networks with Partial CSI. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 60 (3), 1420 - 1431. doi:10.1109/TSP.2011.2177971. CALVO, E., PALOMAR, D. P., RODRÍGUEZ FONOLLOSA, J., VIDAL MANZANO, J. (2010). On the computation of the capacity region of the discrete MAC. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 58 (12), 3512 - 3525. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2010.091710.090239. KOVÁCS, I. Z., GARCÍA ORDÓÑEZ, L., NAVARRO, M., CALVO, E., RODRÍGUEZ FONOLLOSA, J. (2010). Toward a Reconfigurable MIMO Downlink Air Interface and Radio Resource Management. The SURFACE Concept. IEEE Communications Magazine, 48 (6), 22 - 29. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2010.5473860. CALVO, E., VIDAL MANZANO, J., RODRÍGUEZ FONOLLOSA, J. (2009). Optimal Resource Allocation in Relay-Assisted Cellular Networks with Partial CSI. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57 (7), 2809 - 2823. doi:10.1109/TSP.2009.2020008. CALVO, E., STOJANOVIC, M. (2008). Efficient channel-estimation-Based Multiuser Detection for Underwater CDMA Systems. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 33 (4), 502 - 512. doi:10.1109/JOE.2008.2005355.

Articles in other publications

AMORIM, P., CALVO, E., WAGNER, L. (2023). How e-commerce companies can reduce returns. MIT Sloan Management Review, 64 (3), 15-17. CALVO, E., CUI, R., WAGNER, L. (2020). "¡Date prisa! ¡Solo quedan tres!". IESE Business School Insight (155), pp. 56 - 61. CALVO, E., CUI, R., WAGNER, L. (2020). Hurry! Only 3 left in stock! When scarcity signals are most powerful. IESE Business School Insight (155), pp. 56 - 61. CALVO, E. (2016). Mobile Payments: A Framework for Success. The Keys to a Killer App. IESE Insight (31), pp. 56 - 63. CALVO, E. (2016). Saque todo el partido al pago móvil. Un valor añadido para su cliente. IESE Insight (31), pp. 56 - 63.

Book Chapters

MUÑOZ MEDINA, O., VIDAL MANZANO, J., AGUSTÍN, S., CALVO, E., ET AL. (2009). Relaying techniques for OFDM-MIMO systems. In Emmanuelle Vivier and Guillaume Vivier (Ed.), Radio Resources Management in WiMAX: From Theoretical Capacity to System Simulations (pp. 271 - 313).

Cases

ZAMORA, J., VALOR SABATIER, J., CALVO, E., ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET (2023). Artificial Intelligence at Arriaga Asociados: Paralegal or partner. IESE, OIT-23-E. ZAMORA, J., VALOR SABATIER, J., CALVO, E., ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET (2023). La Inteligencia Artificial en Arriaga Asociados: ¿Una paralegal o socia del despacho? IESE, OIT-23. SERRANO, A., CALVO, E. (2020). Fiore di Zucca. IESE, P-1183-E. SERRANO, A., CALVO, E. (2020). Fiore di Zucca. IESE, P-1183. CALVO, E. (2019). Fashiop: A Box of Surprise. IESE, P-1150-E.