Senior Lecturer, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at
Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Director Departamento Acádemico, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability
Investigador, GRIIS - Grupo de investigación en Innovación Social
Investigador, IIS - Instituto de Innovación Social
Biography
Professional Background Marc Vilanova has a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Economics
Shepherd University, USA and a PhD in Management Sciences from ESADE Business School,
focused on managing responsible competitiveness through culture, identity, paradoxes
and narratives. Marc is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation and Lecturer
in the Department of Social Sciences. Marc began his career as a consultant in Tokyo,
developing projects in developing countries funded by the Japanese International Cooperation
Agency. He then moved on to work in internationalisation consultancy services at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Following this, he became Managing Partner of a consultancy firm in Barcelona and
a freelance consultant for various companies. In 2001, Marc began his collaboration
with the Institute for the Individual, Corporations and Society currently the Institute
for Social Innovation, first as a Research Assistant and then, since 2006, as a Research
Associate. He took up the post of Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences in
2009 and is also Researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation. His academic work
focuses on the areas of responsible competitiveness, corporate social responsibility
CSR strategy and accountability. His latest academic article, exploring the relationship
between CSR and firm competitiveness, has been published in the Journal of Business
Ethics. Besides collaborating with ESADE, Marc is working on projects with the United
Nations University, Ryerson University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda University,
Umniversity College Dublin and the Polytechnic University of Catalunya among others.
In 2009, Marc was a Research Fellow at the Aspen Institute Centre for Business Education
in New York. He is currently directing a research project on the innovation processes
that are generated in large companies during CSR strategy development and implementation
processes.Since 2013 Marc is also the Academic Director of the Msc in International
Management at ESADE, which in 2014 was ranked number 6 in the world.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2396
Fax: +34 932 048 105