Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard Business School

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2000. He is renowned as a dynamic teacher and has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course of Competitive Dynamics, Ph.D. courses on Strategy and Game Theory, and a range of Executive Education programs for leading companies worldwide. Professor Casadesus-Masanell received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his BA in Economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Professor Casadesus-Masanell's fields of specialization are management strategy, managerial economics, and industrial organization. He studies competition between organizations with different business models. He is also interested in the limits to contracting and the role of trust for management strategy. He has published in Management Science the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the USC Interdisciplinary Law Journal, and ABANTE Studies in Business Management, among others.

Professor Casadesus-Masanell has conducted corporate trainings in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Australia, for such clients as McKinsey & Company, American Greetings, MARS (makers of M & M’s), Thomson, Royal Bank of Scotland, and others.

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