altJaume Ribera
Professor, Production and Operations Management Department
IESE Business School

Spain

He is Professor at the Production and Operations Management Department, IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Barcelona. Doctor of Industrial Engineering (Doctor Ingeniero Industrial – Thesis supervisor: Prof. Josep Riverola), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 1983. Ph. D. (Mathematical System Theory- Thesis supervisor: Prof. Rudolf Kalman), University of Florida, August 1982. Master of Sciences (Operations Research), University of Florida, March 1980. Industrial Engineer, Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, (ETSIIT), October 1975. Port of Barcelona Chair of Logistics Professor, CEIBS – China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, P. R. China, since 2001 – Joint appointment with IESE

Business School. Associate Dean for Faculty, IESE, University of Navarra, 1993-2001. Professor, Business Management, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, since 1984 (on leave of absence since 1993).

He is a member of the Board of several Spanish companies, in health, and manufacturing sectors. Vice President of the Board, Caixa de Terrassa. Consultant for private and public companies in the following sectors: health, banking, tourism, food processing, textiles, electric components, etc. in Europe, America and Asia in the areas of Organizational Development, Operations Management, Project Management, Quality Management, and Operations Information Systems. Director and consultant in projects sponsored by the EU and the government of Spain in Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Albania, Peru, in the area of Health Systems Management and Financing. Consultant in several World Bank projects involving Latin American and Caribbean countries. He is the author of well over 100 business school teaching cases, many in the health field.

 
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-"Assessment of Graduate Management Education", William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School (2003)