Lourdes Casanova

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Lourdes S. Casanova[1] is an academic, author and currently a Senior Lecturer of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. Before her appointment to Johnson School, Casanova was a lecturer in the Strategy Department at INSEAD. She specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets. In 2014 and 2015, Lourdes Casanova was appointed as one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal.[2] Also, she is member of the Board of Directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.

Born
Lourdes S. Casanova

Fraga, Spain
AlmamaterUniversiteit van Amsterdam (M.A.),
University of Southern California (M.A.),
Universitat de Barcelona (Ph.D.)
SpouseSoumitra Dutta
ChildrenSara Dutta
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Lourdes Casanova
Born
Lourdes S. Casanova

Fraga, Spain
Alma materUniversiteit van Amsterdam (M.A.),
University of Southern California (M.A.),
Universitat de Barcelona (Ph.D.)
SpouseSoumitra Dutta
ChildrenSara Dutta
Scientific career
FieldsInternational business, Latin America, emerging markets
InstitutionsJohnson School at Cornell University, INSEAD
Websitewww.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/lc683/
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Affiliations

Lourdes Casanova is a Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University, since 2012. She is also the Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. For the previous 23 years she was a lecturer in the Strategy Department of INSEAD.

Past teaching experiences include visiting faculty positions and guest lecturer assignments at Tecnológico de Monterrey, HEC Montréal, ESADE Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, San Diego University's School of Business Administration, Oxford University’s Latin American Center, Cambridge Judge Business School, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona’s Institute of European Studies, Universität Zürich, and Haas School of Business. She is a visiting professor at Wenzhou University, China.

Casanova is also a former awardee of the Fulbright Scholar Program.

She is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America. Also, she's a member of the Competitiveness in Latin America Task Force and of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America of the World Economic Forum,.[3] Furthermore, she is a board member and chairperson of the Compensation Committee of the Boyce Thompson Institute, a member of the Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, the World Investment Network of the UNCTAD, B20 Business Summit's Information and Communication Technologies and Innovation task force, a reviewer of Strategy Management Journal, and was responsible at INSEAD of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative. She is a board member of a start-up Documenta, a member of the Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms[4] and the Nominating committee of the World Innovation Summit (HiT Barcelona). She is also member in the Executive Committee of the Cornell Institute for European Studies (CIES), member of the advisory board of the Tompkins County Public Library, a member of the NCE Standing Selection Committee,[5] and a founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau. She is also a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Casanova speaks Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.

Current books

As of January 2023 the following books were published:

Casanova with Anne Miroux wrote the forthcoming Emerging Multinationals coming of age. Casanova with P. Hertenstein and B. Hobdari edited the 2016 book New Wine in Old Bottles? The Role of Emerging Markets Multinationals in advancing IB Theory and Research in the International Journal of Emerging Markets, a special Issue. in 2015, Casanova with Julian Kasum wrote the book Brazil - A Economia Política de uma Potência Global Emergente. This book is available in English.

Casanova is coauthor of the book The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream, published in 2014,[11] and author of the book Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals, published in 2009.[12] Furthermore, she coauthored “Innovalatino, Fostering Innovation in Latin America” in 2011[13] and “El papel de España en los Lazos Económicos entre Asia y Latinoamérica: Grandes empresas, Pymes y la ciudad de Barcelona como puentes entre las dos zonas” (“The Role of Spain in the Economic Relations between Asia and Latin America: Big companies, SMEs, and the city of Barcelona as bridges between the two zones”) in 2012.[14]

Selected works

Casanova has published numerous reports, case studies, chapters in books and articles in journals including Beijing Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Business and Politics, and Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica.

Awards

  • Awarded in 2017 - One of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal.[23]
  • Awarded in 2014 and 2015 – One of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal, published by the Foundation for International Relations and Dialogue (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, FRIDE), offspring of Foreign Policy en español).[24][25]

In 1987 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Media articles and interviews

Casanova is a regular contributor to CNN en español. She also regularly writes opinion columns in the Latin Trade magazine.

Research interests

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