Corporate partnership programmes

Experience

Luisa Alemany is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She was formerly at ESADE Business School and a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Her main areas of interest are Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Education, Business Angels, and Venture Philanthropy. She holds a MBA from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics and Business from Universidad Complutense (Madrid).

Luisa began her career as a Financial Analyst at Procter & Gamble in Madrid. She subsequently worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. Later, she worked at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division, in the venture capital fund Europ@Web and as a Senior Associate of the American private equity fund The Carlyle Group, in its European buyout team.

Luisa Alemany was the director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute for nine years (2009-2017) and the academic sponsor of ESADE BAN (Business Angels Network), that was awarded the Best BAN in Europe in 2016. She seats in the investment committee of two early stage investors and is involved in Rising Tide Europe I and II, the first European Women-only business angels’ fund. In the past, she was in the Board of EBAN, the European Business Angels Network.

Her research is published in top academic journals and she has written several books, the most recent being “Entrepreneurial Finance: The Art and Science of Growing Ventures” (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the first European textbook on the topic.

She has taught at the Master of Science, MBA and executive education level in different programs in London, Oxford, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Milan, Miami, Mexico and Shanghai. She has received the Best Teacher Award 2017, ESADE’s Executive Master in Finance and her case “Scytl”, regarding exits options for investors, was honored Best Entrepreneurship Case Award by EFMD (2017).

Academic Focus

Julian’s main area of expertise is in the strategy and management of large multinational corporations, specifically corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and subsidiary headquarters relationships.

Recent Clients

Rio Tinto, ABN Amro, UBS, Tata Group, Exxon.

Experience

Professor Julian Birkinshaw is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Strategic Management Society, and the (US) Academy of Management. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by the Stockholm School of Economics (2009) and Copenhagen Business School (2018), and is regularly ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers.

His main area of expertise is in the strategy and organisation of large corporations, and specifically such issues as innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic agility and headquarters-subsidiary relationships.

Professor Birkinshaw is the author of 15 books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, Reinventing Management and Giant Steps in Management, and more than 90 articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.

Professor Birkinshaw speaks at business conferences in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He is regularly quoted in international media outlets, including CNN, the BBC, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Businessweek and The Times.

Experience

Dr Gary Dushnitsky is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

His work focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation. He explores the shifting landscape of entrepreneurial finance, exploring such topics as corporate venture capital, crowdfunding and accelerators. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal and Nature Biotechnology.

Dr Dushnitsky has received several academic distinctions, including the 2013 SMS Emerging Scholar Award, the 2009 Kauffmann Junior Faculty Fellowship and several best dissertation prizes. He serves as the Co-Editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and a Senior Editor at Organization Science.

Academic Focus

Current developments and best practices in M&A, private equity perspectives on M&A, valuation and structuring of M&A transactions and negotiations of M&A terms. Florin received the Best Teacher Award in 2021 voted by the MiF 2021 programme. 

Recent Clients

Florin has been advising companies across sectors including manufacturing, construction, hospitality and financial services.

Experience

Florin has a PhD in Management with a specialisation in accounting and finance. He sits on the editorial board of two top academic journals and has published extensively in top tier U.S. based business academic journals. He has been pursuing research on private equity topics and debt markets and is regularly invited to present his research at major business schools around the world. He has long combined his academic expertise with the practice; advising several large investment funds and serving on few advisory boards.

Academic Focus

Niro Sivanthan’s research broadly centres around decision-making, power and status. He is an award-winning teacher of negotiations, decision-making and influence.

Recent Clients

IBM, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Roche, PwC, Sanofi, Vodafone, Mars, Deutsche Bank, A.T. Kearney, Vodafone, Nordea and Sabic.

Experience

His research is regularly presented at leading international conferences, and he serves on editorial boards. He has been published in top international journals covering management and psychology, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology and Psychological Science. His research has also garnered international press coverage in CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes. He has won numerous awards and been named in Poets and Quants' 'Top 40 under 40' list for the top 40 business school professors globally under the age of 40.

Experience

Alex is Academic Director of the CCG and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk ‘What to Trust in Post-Truth World’ and the TEDx talk ‘The Social Responsibility’ with a combined 2.3 million views. He has written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and appeared on Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ITV, Reuters, and Sky News. Alex serves on the Steering Group of The Purposeful Company and on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was named to the Financial Times Business Books of the Year for 2020.