The Global Nomad

IE Business School professor Mark Esposito is an expert in business and economics who is away travelling some 200 days of the year. He says, however, that the world is now a sole, converged platform. As a social media mogul and serial blogger he asks himself whether he could be a virtual economist? It’s well worth hearing what this consummate global nomad has to say!

Prof. Esposito has also authored and co-authored 8 books. His academic work is regularly featured in the Academy of Management Journal, as well as in The Economist and Harvard Business Review

Complexity

Data is fast becoming an organization’s most critical asset says IE business School Business Intelligence expert Prof. Josep Curto. There is, however, one thing you have to remember about it. Big Data is a confusing term, given that we usually just think about it in terms of volume. What companies really need to worry about is complexity, and more precisely data complexity. And complexity is not only driven by volume, velocity or variety (the 3 V’s of the world of big data), but also by other aspects such as the related IT strategy, data-driven culture or governance (the way data is managed, protected or accessed).

Professor Curto continues to challenge our whole approach to data saying that in his humble opinion the starting point should not be data itself but rather a business need or opportunity, and we will also need to understand the role data will play in leveraging that specific need or opportunity…

Prof. Curto is author or co-author of many articles, academic notes and books related to his professional expertise. He also has his own company, Delfos Research.

Another bunch of crazy knowledgeable profs. 2nd Season 2014/15

Here’s another bunch of crazy knowledgeable IE Business School professors who don’t think twice about revealing what makes them tick and how their passions in life often serve to illustrate key points about the subjects they teach.

This video features just some of the professors who have given us insights into their lives and specializations over the course of the last academic year. I hope you’ll enjoy this reminder of Jeffrey Char’s fondness for chocolate, Felipe Quintana’s passion for frontenis, Eduardo Morcillo’s China, Joe Haslam´s love of mountains, Dean Iniguez’s homage to exec ed from China, Erik Hiep’s walk around Amsterdam, Kevin Dubin’s hike through Silicon Fen, Newton Campos’s challenging analysis of what it really means to be an entrepreneur, Susana Campuzano’s penchant for luxury, and the circus Felix Muñoz chose as the setting for his video.

I’d just like to add a very big thank you to all the professors who have been the subject of Other Side videos with such enthusiasm and good grace, and don’t mind admitting that I’m looking forward to discovering the other side of many more IE professors this coming year!