Faculty 2012

Fabrizio Ferraro, Professor of Strategic Management, IESE Business School, Spain
Hoje Jo, Professor of Finance, Leavey School of Business , St. Clara University, USA
Jill Solomon, Professor of Corporate Governance & Accountability, King’s College London, UK
Nicolas Mottis, Professor for Accounting and Management, ESSEC Paris, France

Fabrizio Ferraro is associate professor of strategic management at IESE Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in management from Stanford University. At IESE he teaches classes for MBAs and executives on competitive strategy and strategic decision-making, focusing in particular on strategy execution. He also taught executive programs and/or consulted for multinational firms such as Oracle, Goodyear, General Motors, Banco Santander, Henkel, Nestlé, Puig, and Gonzalez-Byass, as well as a number of high-tech startups.

Fabrizio is the author of numerous academic articles on the topics of self-fulfilling prophecies, governance regimes, open-source communities, and industry transition in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He received the 2005 IESE Prize for Excellence in Research, and the 2006 Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Review. He is an associate editor of the European Management Review, and a member of the Programme Development Group of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. Dr. Ferraro is the founder (and current board member) of Interactive Market Research, an international market research firm.

Hoje Jo started his professional career in 1977, specializing in Korean plant and steel exports. After several years in the industry, he decided to pursue a career in academia. Holding a BA in Chinese Literature from Seoul National University, he went on to receive his MBA in Finance from State University of New York at Buffalo and his PhD in Finance from the University of Florida.
Dr. Jo’s main research interests lie in the areas of corporate, international, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and corporate social responsibility. He published in various leading journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Ethics. Some of Jo’s works have won him awards from the European Finance Association, Global Finance Association, and the PACAP Finance Conference. In 1999, the Korean Chamber of Commerce in Silicon Valley voted him “Professional Man of the Year.”
Recently Dr. Jo received the Moskowitz Prize (2009), the only global award recognizing outstanding quantitative research in the field of socially responsible investing.
Professor Jo has been teaching at Santa Clara since 1990 and is heavily involved with the Santa Clara community, having worked with the Center of Applied Ethics, the Faculty Senate, the University Research Committee and the Korean Student Association, among other groups. He was appointed chair of the Finance Department in July 2011.

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Jill Solomon is Professor of Corporate Governance & Accountability at King’s College London, University of London, in the Department of Management. Her primary research interests include institutional investor engagement and dialogue (private reporting processes), responsible investment, stakeholder accountability, pension fund governance and sustainability issues in accounting and finance. Before moving to King’s College in 2009, Jill lectured at Cardiff University and Sheffield University. She gained a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1996 in International Finance. Jill enjoys an active involvement in the evolution of corporate governance and accountability both in the academic and practitioner spheres and chairs the British Accounting Association Special Interest Group on Corporate Governance. She is also a member of the Steering Group of ACCA’s Governance Risk & Performance Forum (previously the Corporate Governance and Risk Management Committee, ACCA). Jill’s best-selling textbook ‘Corporate Governance and Accountability’ is entering its 4th edition in 2012.

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Nicolas Mottis joined ESSEC Paris as an assistant professor in 1995, after having held a number of positions in companies from 1988 to 1995: in the Marketing department with Renault, Switzerland (1989-90), then as project manager in the Information Systems department of BNP (1990-93), then with Bertelsmann (1993-95). He was promoted to the rank of full Professor in September 2000.

He is the former Director of the school (Grande Ecole & MBAs) and still heavily involved in accreditation processes of universities worldwide for the AACSB. He was Member of the Board of the Initial Accreditation Committee of AACSB from 2003 to 2006 and Chair of the Board of the Accreditation Quality Committee (in charge of defining the standards) from 2006 to 2009. He regularly chairs accreditation teams in Europe, North America and Asia.

Dr. Mottis obtained his doctorate in economics from Ecole Polytechnique France and a “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” degree (qualification to supervise research) from the University of Paris Dauphine. He has been Visiting Researcher at Stanford University (US), the Harvard Business School (US) and the Australian Graduate School of Management Sidney

His research areas focus on strategic control (corporate governance, value creation, socially responsible investment, incentives and performance measurement) and project management in high tech sectors. He has published many articles and several books on these subjects (for a complete list see: www.essec.edu/professors-research).

In 2011 he was the President of the jury of the FIR-Eurosif Prizes and is member of the jury for the Best Paper Award of the PRI Academic Conference since 2010.