IESE's Alumni Association has awarded its 2007 Research Excellence Awards to Professors África Ariño, Tony Dávila, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair.

The prize for "Best Academic Article Published in a Top International Journal" went to Ariño for her article in the Strategic Management Journal in 2007. Written in collaboration with Ohio State University Prof. Jeffrey J. Reuer, it was titled: "Strategic Alliance Contracts: Dimensions and Determinants of Contractual Complexity."

The "Development of a New Course or Program Teaching Material" prize was won by Seelos and Mair for the course they developed, "Entrepreneurial Strategies for Social Impact."

"Best Book Published in Terms of International and Business Impact" was awarded to Dávila for the book series "The Creative Enterprise. Managing Innovative Organizations and People," which was co-edited by Profs. Marc J. Epstein and Robert Shelton.

Activities

The Center for Globalization Strategy was one of the partners in the fifth annual "Doing Good and Doing Well" conference, held on IESE's Barcelona campus from February 29 to March 1. This year the conference, which is organized by IESE's full-time MBA students, featured more than 100 speakers and attracted more than 350 participants, from more than 50 countries. Responsible banking, social entrepreneurship and climate change were some of the key topics discussed.

Among the speakers were GE regional vice president Daniel García Guelbenzu; Charity Bank founder and CEO Malcolm Hayday; Volans Ventures founding partner and Schwab Foundation former director Pamela Hartigan; Boston Consulting Group senior partner and managing director David R. Dean; KenCall co-founder and CEO Nik Nesbit; and Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab in India director Reuben Abraham.