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Josep °Õà±è¾±±ð²õ is Professor Emeritus in the Strategic Management Department. He gained a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and an MBA at ESADE.

His areas of specialization include strategic management, corporate governance, family-owned firms, their development and governance structures. He currently teaches several courses in the MBA program, as well as in other General Management Programs at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. He also designs programs focused at issues related specifically to family-owned firms, where he teaches general management, governance and strategy in family-owned businesses.

Professor Emeritus °Õà±è¾±±ð²õ has taught General Management in a number of different business schools in both Europe and Latin America, including AESE in Portugal, IDE in Ecuador, PAD-University of Piura in Peru, ISE in Brazil, IAE in Argentina, ESE in Chile, and INALDE in Colombia. He has also been a member of the academic board of IPADE in Mexico and ESE in Santiago, Chile.

For many years now, Professor Emeritus °Õà±è¾±±ð²õ has worked as a consultant with individual businesses, many of them family-owned, as well as with Spanish and international banking institutions. He is a member of the board of directors at several Spanish companies, Fellow of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), member of the board of the Spanish Association of Family-Owned Business Consultants and Academics (CAEF) and The International Center for Financial Research (CIIF).

He has written book chapters and books such as 100 Familias que cambiaron el mundo: Las empresas familiares y la industrialización, Sí quiero: el compromiso de la familia empresaria, Management Buy Out, Plan de vuelo, Family Business: not so small nor so young. A renewed approach to the age and size of the Spanish family business, Family values and value creation (co-authored by Professor John L. Ward) and Empresa Familiar: 30 años de preguntas con respuesta. He has also developed a wide variety of academic and journalistic articles on family-owned businesses.