TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP

Business administration

Seminars for Spanish academics. Madrid and the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University

On 17 October 2001 the Rafael del Pino Foundation signed a collaboration agreement with Madrid Complutense University which was renewed on 25 May 2004 and again on 10 September 2007. The purpose of the agreement is to sponsor the following activities:

  • a) To hold training and refresher seminars on business management, aimed primarily at Spanish academics who teach in this field. The seminars take place at the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard. The guest speakers are specialist academics from top-level American universities.
  • b) To hold courses and/or seminars at the Real Colegio Complutense to promote the study of research methodologies in the field of business administration, as well as to facilitate knowledge of establishments and academics of the highest standing in order to strengthen and internationalise research on business issues; and
  • c) To organise at least one academic event each year at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on important issues connected with business economics.

Within the framework of this agreement, a course for Spanish lecturers in business management was organised at the Foundation on 5 June 2008 on the subject of Research in Business Ecconomics. The speakers were Ramón Casadesús-Masanell (Harvard Business School) and María Guadalupe (Columbia Business School).

The course was attended by 94 people from 25 Spanish universitites and institutions.

Subsequently another course was held at the Real Colegio Complutense from 7-11 July 2008.

The course structure and faculty were as follows:

  • • Competitive strategy: Juan Alcácer, Ramón Casadesús-Masanell, Félix Oberholzer-Gee and Jordan Siegel, all from Harvard Business School;
  • • Technological change: Rebecca Henderson (MIT) and Mary Tripsas (Harvard Business School);
  • • Business performance: Emilio Castilla (MIT), Mauro Guillén (Wharton School) and Robert Gibbons (MIT);
  • • Academic session: Tom Eisenmann (Harvard Business School).

The course consisted of 10 sessions each lasting three hours, and was attended by 42 academics from 22 universities.

The Director of both courses was Professor Álvaro Cuervo (Madrid Complutense University) and the coordinators were Professors Mauro Guillén (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and Mª Ángeles Montoro (Madrid Complutense University).