IE Business School
Full Professor
Strategy Department
Email: luis.diestre@ie.edu
Phone: (+34) 915689600
Luis Diestre is a Full Professor at IE Business School. He received his PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Southern California in 2009. His research interests evolve around two distinct topics: non-market strategy and R&D activities in the Biopharmaceutical industry. Luis' work appears in publications such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, the Journal of Management Studies, and Research Policy.
Luis served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal between 2019 and 2022, and has been a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal (since 2010) and the Strategic Management Journal (since 2014). In addition, Luis was included in Poets and Quants' 2015 list of "The World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors".
As part of his teaching portfolio, Luis has developed a series of online simulations, available at strategic-decision-making.com, that immerse students in realistic business scenarios and enable them to appply strategic management concepts through expertiential, decison-based learning.
Luis is also the CEO and founder of Translucent Datalab, a healthcare technology start-up that generates knowledge around Online Pharmacies’ activities. This start-up is an University spin-off that emerged from an ERC Starting Grant (€1.4 million) awarded in 2016 and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant (€150,000) awarded in 2023 to perform research around the online sale of pharmaceutical drugs.
Education
PhD in Strategic Management, University of Southern California, USA
MBA, IE Business School, Spain
BSc in Telecommunication Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Experience
Founder & CEO of Translucent Datalab
ERC Proof of Concept Grant, 2023-2024
Full Professor of Strategy: IE Business School, since 2020
ERC Starting Grant, 2017-2022
Academic Director of the Strategy Area: IE Business School, 2014-2017
Associate Professor of Strategy: IE Business School, 2014-2020
Visiting Professor: University of Surrey, 2014-2017
Assistant Professor of Strategy: IE Business School, 2009-2014