Prof. Johanna Mair
Professor of General Management at IESE, the Business School of the University of Navarra in Barcelona (Spain)
Johanna Mair is Professor of General Management at IESE, the Business School of the University of Navarra in Barcelona (Spain), where she teaches corporate strategy and entrepreneurial strategies for social impact in the MBA program, executive programs and the PhD program. She is the academic director of the Program for Management Development and teaches in the International Faculty Development Program.
Her current research lies at the intersection of traditional strategy and entrepreneurship. Current topics include entrepreneurial activity that aims at social impact. More specifically she is interested in how institutions stifle and enable social progress and the role of entrepreneurial actors in this process.
Professor Mair research has been published in leading academic journals, the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Herald Tribune. She sits on the advisory board of a number of companies and foundations and consults with large multinational companies and international organizations such as the World Bank.
Before earning her Ph.D in management from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), Johanna was directly involved in many aspects of the executive decision making process working in international banking in New York and Frankfurt and has worked for the European Commission in Brussels.
