Prof. Pons has extensive international experience as a management educator and has been part of CEEMAN’s IMTA-International Management Teachers Academy faculty team since the program’s beginning in 2000. He has taught in more than fifty countries in institutions such as the Darden School at the University of Virginia, INSEAD in Fontainebleau, ESMT in Berlin and Munich, ESADE in Barcelona and IAE in Buenos Aires. He is currently teaching and cooperating with Babson College in Boston, USA, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia and Instituto Internacional San Telmo in Seville, Spain.
IMTA, a unique faculty development program, takes places in June in Bled, Slovenia every year and has so far educated more than 500 professors of management from 40 countries, including close to 100 educators from Russia.
Under the masterful guidance of highly experienced international faculty, the participants get a chance to enhance their teaching methodologies, materials and skills; receive valuable feedback on their own teaching techniques; as well as learn from some of the personal “tips and tricks” of the teacher’s profession. According to many alumni, IMTA was a major milestone in their teaching careers, and gave start to many new joint projects and lasting professional connections.
The lecture with Prof. Pons will be a great opportunity to learn more about IMTA and faculty development in general.
When: May 28, 2015, 18:15-19:30
Where: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Stremiannyi pereulok, 36 (Стремянный переулок, 36), Moscow
Schedule:
- 18:15 - 18:30 Registration
- 18:30 - 19:15 Lecture: Career Paths for Management Educators
- 19:15 - 19:30 Networking
The event will be in English and free of charge. However, as the number of seats is limited, please register before Monday, 25 May.
About the Speaker
Dr. Joe M. Pons lives in Barcelona Spain, where he founded and is currently President of AXIOMA Marketing Consultants, a firm specializing in strategic marketing projects as well as in the training and executive development aspects that usually go hand in hand with Customer Orientation activities.
Since August 2012, Prof. Pons is a Visiting Professor at Babson College in Boston, teaching MBA and Executive Programs as well as developing new frameworks in the Entrepreneurial Marketing Mindset.
He earned his PhD at IESE, Barcelona with a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of marketing management practices in the branch networks of Saving Banks. For 14 years he was a Marketing Professor at IESE International Graduate School of Management in Barcelona. Currently, his regular teaching assignments include being a Visiting Professor at the IEDC - Bled School of Management. He also lectures at Instituto Internacional San Telmo in Seville, Spain and participates in Seminars organized by efmd and CEEMAN for business school academics. He has taught in more than fifty countries in institutions such as the Darden School at the University of Virginia, INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France), ESMT in Berlin and Munich, ESADE in Barcelona and IAE in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Professor Pons is the author of a number of well-known business cases as well as articles on the use of the case method in management education. His current consulting engagements focus on aligning sales and marketing organizations to shifting strategic priorities, improving inter-functional coordination as a mechanism towards greater market orientation as well as international market selection criteria.
He has worked, as consultant, -among others- for Henkel, Electrolux, Deutsche Bank, Telefonica, Omnicon, ABN Amro Bank, BBVA and Bertelsmann.