Miguel Ángel
Canela

Professor Emeritus of Managerial Decision Sciences

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona

Miguel Ángel Canela is Professor Emeritus in the Managerial Decision Sciences Department. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Universitat de Barcelona (1980). Before joining IESE Business School in 2009, he was a Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis of that university and a part-time Professor of the Ph.D. Program at IESE. He also worked many years as a consultant at the Institut Català de Tecnologia.

His Ph.D. Dissertation and first research papers were concerned with various problems of Functional Analysis. Later, his interest switched towards interdisciplinary research, entering diverse fields, such as Management Science, Nutrition, Botany, Toxicology and Biochemistry. Nowadays, his attention is focused on the application of Data Science to various aspects of Management.

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

VÉLEZ-PEREIRA, A. M., DE LINARES, C., CANELA, M. Á., BELMONTE, J. (2023). A Comparison of models for the forecast of daily concentration thresholds of airborne fungal spores. Atmosphere, 14 (6), Article 1016. doi:10.3390/atmos14061016. BARROSO DEL TORO, A., TORT-MARTORELL, X., CANELA, M. Á. (2022). How shareholders react to sustainable narratives about leading European energy companies?. An event study using sentiment data from the global database for events, language and tone (GDELT). Applied Economics, 54 (30), 3482-3494. doi:10.1080/00036846.2021.2009759. ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á., PASTORIZA, D. (2022). Dataset on PGA Tour tournament entry. Data in Brief, 41, Article 107952. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.107952.

Working Papers

N'GUESSAN, M. N., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Crowdfunding In Africa. An Empirical Study Of Kiva Platform Users In Sub-Saharan Africa (WP-1172-E). Barcelona: IESE. IBARRA GARZA, A., CUGUERÓ-ESCOFET, N., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Prosocial Crowdlending in Kenya (WP-1166-E). Barcelona: IESE. MOLESKIS, M., CANELA, M. Á. (2016). Crowdfunding Success: The Case Of Kiva.Org (WP-1137-E). Barcelona: IESE.

Books

CANELA, M. Á., ALEGRE, I., IBARRA, A. (2019). Quantitative Methods for Management: A Practical Approach. Berlin: Springer.

Book Chapters

CANELA, M. Á., GUÇLU, B., ALEGRE, I. (2019). An Exploratory Analysis Using Co-Authorship Network: Trends in Risk Behavior. In Dileep Kumar G. (Ed.), Machine Learning Techniques for Improved Business Analytics (pp. 166 - 200). Hershey, PA: Igi Global. GÜÇLÜ, B., CANELA, M. Á., ALEGRE, I. (2019). An Exploratory Analysis using Co-authorship network: trends in risk behavior. In Kumar, D. (Eds.), Machine learning techniques for improved business analytics (pp. 166-200). Hershey, PA: Igi Global. GÜÇLÜ, B., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Analytics Overuse in Advertising and Promotion Budget Forecasting. In Information Resources Management Association (USA) (Ed.), Advertising and Branding: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 477 - 505). Hershey, PA: Igi Global.

Non-refereed articles

ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2018). 'Marketing intelligence', una evolución necesaria de los sistemas BI que demanda competencias clave. Harvard Deusto Márketing y Ventas (152), pp. 38 - 45. ARIÑO, M. A., CANELA, M. Á., ALEGRE, I. (2017). Cómo sacar partido del analisis de datos big data. IEEM Revista de negocios, 48. ALEGRE, I., ARIÑO, M. A., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Big Data: Where To Begin?. How To Get The Most Out Of Data Analysis. IESE Alumni Magazine (145), pp. 22 - 25.

Studies

CHINCHILLA, N., LEÓN, C., TORRES E., CANELA, M. Á. (2007). Trayectoria, conciliación y rol de los directivos. ALEGRE, I., CHINCHILLA, N., LEÓN, C., CANELA, M. Á. (2007). Políticas de conciliación, liderazgo y cultura en 2.200 PYMES españolas. CHINCHILLA, N., LEÓN, C., CANELA, M. Á., ARIÑO, M. A., QUIROGA, V. (2007). Análisis sectorial de las políticas de conciliación. Conclusiones del estudio IFREI 2006 basado en 360 empresas.

Cases

OSUNA, I., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2019). The Sales Trend at Guarini. IESE, AD-370-E. N'GUESSAN, M. N., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2019). HR Analytics at Barney. IESE, AD-369-E.

Outputs in other media

IBARRA, A., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). ¿Para qué existe el crowdfunding? El Universal, México DF. REICHE, S., LEE, Y.-T., CANELA, M. Á., CARDONA SORIANO, P. (2014). O papel da confiança entre diretores e empregados. Administradores, Brazil.