Five New Professors Join IESE’s Faculty

IESE welcomes five new professors to its faculty for the 2024-25 academic year, bringing in a diverse group of international scholars. The new faculty members, three women and two men, hold doctorates from some of the world’s leading universities. IESE’s faculty comprises 125 full-time professors from 24 different nationalities.  

Their research addresses the challenges faced by business leaders today, including innovation, managing uncertainty, the impact of changes on people within organizations, the effects of social media-driven activism on company valuations, and corporate environmental performance, among other topics.  

With these new additions, IESE’s full-time faculty now totals 125 professors representing 24 different nationalities. This year, IESE also has 81 external collaborators and 8 visiting professors.  

The new professors are:  

• Christoph Loch, Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology

Christoph Loch holds a Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and joins IESE after a long tenure at INSEAD, where he served as a tenured professor (1994-2011). He will continue to hold a position at Cambridge Judge Business School, where he was Dean from 2011 to 2021, and is currently 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 passionate about impactful research and has served as a consultant to organizations of all sizes, including non-profits, across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He spent a year as a visiting professor in China during 2023-2024.

• Maïlys George, Assistant Professor, Department of Managing People in Organizations

Maïlys George holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from ESSEC Business School. Before joining IESE, Professor George worked as an Assistant Professor at EDHEC Business School in France, was a postdoctoral researcher at IESE, and held visiting scholarships at the KU Leuven in Belgium and at George Mason University in the United States.

With her multicultural background, Professor George has always been interested in understanding how people perceive their identity and their goals. Her research explores how individuals experience uncertainty during role transitions, identity-threatening situations, and when their work conditions challenge relationships with colleagues. Her interest in these topics stems from a desire to foster greater diversity, inclusion, and well-being in the workplace. Professor George employs both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

She has published on these topics in top academic journals such as Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Academy of Management Discoveries. She has received several grants and awards, including a Fulbright scholarship.  

• Pablo Sanz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Business Ethics

Pablo Sanz holds a Ph.D. in Strategy from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He also earned an MBA from IESE Business School, an MSc in Economics from the University of Barcelona, and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. 

His research focuses on social movements, organizations, and political strategies, with a particular emphasis on the diffusion of digital activism and its implications for business strategies and resources. For example, his work examines the impact that organized social media activism can have on company valuations in the stock market, as well as the effects that social media boycotts can have on the ideological polarization of firms.

His teaching focuses on strategic management, corporate stakeholder relations, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics. He has taught strategy in the BBA program at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and developed teaching materials in these areas prior to his doctoral studies.  

• Jieun Shin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Strategic Management

Jieun Shin holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Toronto, an M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Prior to her academic career, she gained practical experience working in the chemical and financial industries.

Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental performance, innovation, and management. In her recent work, she explores what drives corporate environmental performance, with a particular focus on how internal organizational practices influence green innovation and pollution levels (e.g., CO2 emissions or toxic chemicals). For instance, one of her papers investigates how structured management practices influence firms’ adaptive responses to changes in fuel prices concerning CO2 emissions.  

• Mirel Yavuz, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations, Information, and Technology

Mirel Yavuz earned her Ph.D. in 2024 from UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

Mirel’s research focuses on the intersection of sustainable operations, multi-objective decision-making, optimization, and behavioral operations management. Her passion lies in developing optimization-based interactive algorithms that help make decisions about social and environmental responsibility issues. She is also deeply interested in exploring the decision-making processes underlying trade-offs in these contexts, often through experimental exploration.  

These new faculty members join the professors who arrived earlier in 2024: Martin Jacob, who arrived at IESE in February, and Pablo Hernández de Cos, who joined in July.  

Martin Jacob, Professor of Accounting and Control
Professor of Accounting and Control at IESE Business School, Martin Jacob is an advisor to the German Ministry of Finance and an expert in tax matters. His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions, including corporate and income taxes, as well as taxes on emissions and their effects on investment, sustainability, and the environment.  

Pablo Hernández de Cos, Professor of the Practice of Management of Economics
Former Governor of the Bank of Spain (2018-2024), Pablo Hernández de Cos joined IESE as a Professor in the Department of Economics. He has been a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), the Council of State, the Advisory Board of the Financial Stability Institute (FSI), the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). In the academic field, he has published extensively on monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial stability, and the Spanish and European economies.