Evgeny Káganer & Josep Valor

Teaches at IESE Business School

Professors: Evgeny Káganer & Massimo Maoret

Evgeny Kaganer is Associate Professor at IESE Business School where he teaches MBA and executive courses in digital business, IT strategy, and dynamic organization. His research focuses on understanding how rapid digitalization reshapes business models and organizations.

Evgeny has published on these topics in premier academic and business journals, including MIT Sloan Management Review, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems among others. His work on the effects of digitalization in business and education has been widely cited in major media outlets, such as Financial Times, Business Week, Handelsblatt, CIO Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle.

Evgeny has extensive experience working with executive audiences in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Middle East, and Russia. He has taught, directed custom programs, and consulted with multinational companies, including HP, Oracle, Amadeus, Carlsberg, Schneider Electric, and Desigual. He regularly advises early-stage start-ups on issues of business model and technology design.

Currently, Evgeny also serves as Academic Director for Learning Innovation at IESE Business School, helping the school navigate digital transformation of the business education space.

Prior to joining academia Evgeny spent several years working for a major financial services firm in Russia. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Louisiana State University, MBA from Syracuse University, and MD degree from the Ural State Medical Academy, Russia.

Josep Valor-Sabatier is professor of information systems and information technology and holder of the Indra Chair of Digital Strategy.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep Valor teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy.

In in-company training he has been involved in projects with leading organizations like the Telefonica, Ericsson, Vodafone, The World Bank, Santander, BBVA, Oracle, Sony, Technicolor, Abbott, ING, BASF, KPMG, Henkel and 3i.

His research has been published in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Knowledge and Process Management and he has published books on the information-telecommunications hyper-industry and information systems management. His current research interests focus on the impact of ITCs on competitiveness and industry structure, with emphasis on telecommunications and media.

Prof. Valor served as the conference co-chair of the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Barcelona.