Mª Julia
Prats

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Bertrán Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurship

• Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University
• Master in Business Administration, IESE, University of Navarra
• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

Mª Julia Prats is Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship, and holder of the Bertrán Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurship at IESE.

Prof. Prats’s primary area of interest is the entrepreneurial process, which includes the identification, evaluation and implementation of opportunities in any context. Central to this work is developing strategies and systems that help established firms achieve profitable growth. Her second work stream focuses on understanding the key factors in building and managing professional service firms. Over the years she has had the opportunity to develop both areas of interest through teaching, research projects and consulting work.

Prof. Prats was nominated Kauffman Emerging Scholar for her dissertation work and has published in international journals and congress proceedings, both for practitioners as well as the academic community. She has also authored teaching materials and contributions to several books on entrepreneurship and strategy related topics.

She holds a DBA in business administration from Harvard University, an MBA from IESE Business School, and a degree in industrial engineering from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. She has taught at Wharton Business School, IPADE (México), INALDE (Colombia), and AESE (Portugal).

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

PRATS, M. J., SOSNA, M., VELAMURI, R. (2012). Managing in Different Growth Contexts. California Management Review, 54 (4), 118 - 142. doi:10.1525/cmr.2012.54.4.118.
GROYSBERG, B., NANDA, A., PRATS, M. J. (2009). Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility?. Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis. Journal of Financial Transformation, 25, 95 - 106.

Working Papers

AGULLES, R., PRATS, M. J. (2012). Change, growth and learning (DI-955-E).
AGULLES, R., PRATS, M. J. (2011). Learning in practice: What organizational and management literature can contribute to professional and occupational development (DI-938-E).
PRATS, M. J., AGULLES, R. (2008). Algo más que intuición para los negocios. Competencias que todo emprendedor debería desarrollar (DI-765).
GROYSBERG, B., NANDA, A., PRATS, M. J. (2007). Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility?. Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market (WP-1081-E).
PRATS, M. J., NANDA, A. (2004). What can we learn from history? The entrepreneurial boom and bust in the investment management industry (1927-1931) (WP-1085-E).

Articles in other publications

PRATS, M. J. (2022). Adopting a retail phygital experience via open innovation. The Story of WOW. Blog IESE.
SIOTA, J., PRATS, M. J. (2022). The Three internal barriers to deep-tech corporate venturing. Chief innovation officers must tackle not-invented-here syndrome, risk aversion, and top-down cultures to successfully collaborate with deep-tech startups.. MIT Sloan Management Review.
PRATS, J., SIOTA, J. (2021). Corporate venturing enablers. How they help open innovation. IESE Insight.
PRATS, J., SIOTA, J. (2019). How corporations can better work with startups.. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles.
PRATS, M. J., SIOTA, J., SACCOMANO, C., CANONICI, T., CONTIJOCH, X. (2018). Corporate Venturing: Challenges and best practices of large firms innovating with start-ups. The European Business Review.

Books

PRATS, M. J., SOSNA, M., SYSKO-ROMANCZUK, S. (2014). Entrepreneurial Icebreakers. Insights and Case Studies from Internationally Successful Central and Eastern European Entrepreneurs. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

PRATS, J., KISLENKO, S. (2015). Empowering growth from within. Cultivating conditions for intrapreneruship to thrive in shaping entrepreneurial mindsets. In Canals, Jordi (Eds.), Shaping entrepreneurial mindsets: innovation and entrepreneurship in leadership development (pp. 59-80). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
PRATS, M. J., AGULLES, R. (2011). Managing Managers as Professionals: Leadership Development and Talent Transfer in a Global World. In Jordi Canals (Ed.), The Future of Leadership Development: Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools (pp. 266 - 291). Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan.
PRATS, M. J. (2010). Iniciativa emprendedora y la lógica del don. En Domènec Melé y J.M. Castellá (Ed.), El desarrollo humano integral. Comentarios interdisciplinares a la Encíclica "Caritas in veritate" de Benedicto XVI (pp. 243 - 257). Barcelona: Iter.
PRATS, M. J. (2008). Entrepreneurship: Los superhéroes no existen. En Francisco J. Garrido (Ed.), Lo que se aprende en los mejores MBA (pp. 95 - 122). Barcelona: Gestión 2000.
LIECHTENSTEIN, H., AMIT, R., PRATS, M. J., MILLAY, T. (2008). Single family offices: The art of effective wealth management. In Josep Tàpies, John L. Ward (Eds.), Family values and value creation. The fostering of enduring values within family-owned businesses (pp. 166 - 193). Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan.

Studies

PRATS, M. J., SIOTA, J., BUSTAMANTE, C., CAMACHO, B. (2023). Open Innovation. Corporate venturing squads. Teaming up with other corporations to better innovate with start-ups. IESE, Barcelona, Spain.
PRATS, M. J., ALCARAZ, J. A. (2022). Análisis de una nueva generación de start-ups en España y Portugal. CaixaBank.
SIOTA, J., PRATS, J. (2021). Open Innovation. Unlocking hidden opportunities by refining the value proposition between your corporation and corporate venturing enablers. IESE, Barcelona, Spain.
PRATS, J., ALCARAZ, J. A. (2021). Análisis de una nueva generación de start-ups en España y Portugal. CaixaBank.
SIOTA, J., PRATS, J., BRIA, V. E. (2021). Open innovation. How corporate giants can better collaborate with deep-tech startups: the case of East and Southeast Asia. IESE, Barcelona, Spain.

Cases

PINHEIRO SAURIN, L., PRATS, M. J. (2022). PERSEO (A). Iberdola's Corporate Entrepreneurship Quest. IESE, E-229-E.
PINHEIRO SAURIN, L., PRATS, M. J. (2022). PERSEO (B). Iberdola's Corporate Entrepreneurship Quest. IESE, E-230-E.
PINHEIRO SAURIN, L., PRATS, M. J. (2022). PERSEO (C). Iberdola's Corporate Entrepreneurship Quest. IESE, E-231-E.
PINHEIRO SAURIN, L., PRATS, M. J. (2022). Findasense. Scaling Up Meaningful CX. IESE, E-227-E.
DE ROS, M. D. M., SAN ROMÁN, E., PRATS, M. J. (2021). Iberostar: Wave of Change. A Family Business Face to Face With a Global Problem. IESE, E-223-E.

Technical Notes

WAKELING, N., MITCHELL, J., PRATS, M. J. (2009). Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) and Letters of Intent (LoI) in an Entrepreneurial Context. IESE, EN-13-E.
SABRIÀ, F., PRATS, M. J. (1996). Curvas «input-output». IESE, PN-384.
SABRIÀ, F., PRATS, M. J. (1996). Input-output Curves. IESE, PN-384-E.