Evgeny Káganer & Massimo Maoret

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.

Massimo Maoret is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management Department, and a European Commission Marie Curie Fellow. He received a Ph.D. in Management from Boston College in 2013; he is an active member of the Academy of Management and was also part of the Economic Sociology Work Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management between 2010 and 2013.

Massimo's research focuses on how social networks influence performance both at the individual and organizational level. His work focuses on explaining how informal relationships facilitate the innovativeness of knowledge workers (R&D engineers and architects), and the process through which new organizational members become socialized by developing their networks in their new jobs. He also studies how organizations of the public and private sector exchange knowledge in large technological consortia, and how the stability of task-related interactions boosts organizational competitiveness.

Massimo has investigated the impact of social networks on the performance of various small and large firms, but also on no-profit organizations from different institutional sectors (e.g. basketball teams and the military). His work has appeared in multiple prestigious academic outlets, including Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management and the Proceedings of the Academy of Management. He currently serves in the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science, Journal of Management and Organization Studies.

At IESE, Massimo teaches Competitive Strategy, Strategy Execution, Organizational Theory and Organizational Change. He also teaches modules on managing your network and getting things done at the Executive level, where he has collaborated with organizations such as DOW Chemical, DSM, Faurecia, Henkel and UNICEF.