Full-time Postdoctoral Fellow for the… at IESE Business… · Barcelona

The Sustainable Leadership Initiative (SLI) at IESE Business School invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral fellowship. The primary criterion for acceptance is evidence of research excellence and an interest in studying sustainability-related topics. Ideally the candidate will have defended an excellent dissertation and have a strong pipeline of academic articles to be published in top academic journals. The position will start in January 2023 or as soon as possible.

Candidates should have finished their PhD degree by the start date.

The fellow will be responsible for conducting original research under the supervision of the Academic Director, Professor Fabrizio Ferraro, or any other of the 14 professors involved in the initiative (see website for more information). This will help you consolidate your research pipeline and continue your academic career. You will also be involved in coordinating one international research conference on sustainable leadership, and another one targeted at corporate leaders.

More broadly, it is expected that the fellow will also become actively involved in the IESE Business School intellectual communities by regularly participating in research seminars, brown bag presentations, etc.

No teaching is expected or required.

IESE Business School

IESE Business School (www.iese.edu) is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra with campuses in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, New York and Sao Paulo. It offers master’s degrees (MBA, MiM), graduate degrees (PhD in Management) and executive education. Founded in 1958, recent rankings of the Financial Times, the Economist, and Business Week consistently place IESE among the top 5 business schools in the world. With full-time professors from 25 countries and professors with PhDs from the world’s leading universities, the IESE faculty’s teaching and research efforts are global in outlook and content. IESE has more than 50,000 alumni in more than 100 countries around the world.

Sustainable Leadership Initiative

The IESE’s Sustainable Leadership Initiative (https://www.iese.edu/sli) is dedicated to generating rigorous, impactful knowledge to prompt leaders across sectors to create economic, social, and environmental value for their organizations and for society. The initiative brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and aims to both foster impactful research and help diffuse it among corporate leaders and policy makers.

Faculty members across the following departments are affiliated with the initiative:

• Accounting and Control
• Business Ethics
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Management
• Managing People in Organizations,
• Operations, Information and Technology
• Strategic Management

Research affiliated with the initiative has been published in top journals including but not limited to:

• Academy of Management Journal
• Administrative Science Quarterly
• Business Ethics Quarterly
• Journal of Accounting Research
• Journal of Financial Economics
• Management Science

Qualifications

• PhD degree in economics, sociology, strategy, management, finance, operations, etc. (any social science discipline and field in business school).
• Demonstrated research ability excellence in sustainability-related topics. Ideally, a strong pipeline of academic articles to be published in top academic journals (top publications a plus, but not required).
• Rigorous research methods expertise (either quantitative or qualitative)

Application instructions

Interested candidates are to send the following:

1. Research statement, specifying the fit of your research with any of the themes or professors affiliated with the SLI
2. CV
3. 2 letters of recommendation
4. Copies of 2-3 research papers

Equal opportunity

IESE’s programs, research and activities, and our organizational practices, are informed by a humanistic and ethical vision of management. As such, IESE is an equal employment opportunity organization, and does not discriminate against any person on any legally protected basis.