Pascual Berrone is Full Professor and Director of the Strategic Management Department, as well as holder of the Schneider Electric Chair of Sustainability and Business Strategy at IESE Business School. He is also Vice-President of the Ibero-American Academy of Management.
Prof. Berrone holds a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Católica de Córdoba, has training in Administration and International Business from FUNCER Business School, and earned his PhD in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is also an IESE alumnus, where he completed a doctoral programme.
Before joining the faculty of IESE Business School, he was a visiting researcher at Arizona State University and a visiting professor at Concordia University (Montreal) and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). More recently, he served as a visiting professor at Nanyang Business School in Singapore.
Prof. Berrone has extensive management experience, gained over years of academic work and consulting in Latin America, Europe and the United States. His main research and teaching interests focus on three areas: corporate governance, social issues in management, and family businesses.
His academic work has been widely published in internationally renowned scientific journals, including: Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, California Management Review, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of Management Studies (all included in the FT45 list), as well as Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Family Business Review, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Management Research, and the prestigious Revista de Economía Financiera in Spain.
Throughout his career, Prof. Berrone has received several research awards. In 2015, he received the IBM Faculty Award in recognition of his work on city strategies and urban development. In 2009, he was awarded the Academy of Management’s Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, sponsored by the Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. That same year, he won the Best Paper Award in the Corporate Governance category at the EURAM conference, sponsored by the Center for Family and Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO).
In 2008, he received the Best Proceedings Paper Award from the ONE Division of the Academy of Management. In 2010, his paper “The Impact of Symbolic and Substantive Actions on Environmental Legitimacy” was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the Ibero-American Academy of Management Conference. In 2011, his work on environmental innovation was also a finalist for the UAM-Accenture award for best paper.
More recently, he was awarded the Best Scientific Contribution Prize by the Universidad Pública de Navarra for his work carried out between 2009 and 2010 in the field of Humanities and Social, Legal and Economic Sciences. In 2012, he also received an Honourable Mention in the 4th Annual Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula Award, for his contribution to integrating sustainability into management education programmes.
Prof. Berrone is Associate Editor of the journal Organization & Environment and serves on several international editorial boards. He is also the founder of the Strategic Madrid Group, an initiative that brings together world-renowned academics and professionals with an interest in strategic issues. In addition, he is Academic Co-Director of the IESE Cities in Motion research platform.
