Eduardo Calvo is Professor in the Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management at IESE Business School, where he holds the CELSA Chair of Competitiveness in Manufacturing and serves as Associate Director of the Faculty Division. An electrical engineering by training, he holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and has been visiting scholar several times at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2005 he received the Salvà i Campillo Award to the Best Young Engineer by the Association of Electrical Engineers of Catalonia. In 2014 he appeared among the world’s top 40 business school professors under the age of 40. In 2019, his research received an honorable mention at M&SOM’s Practice-Based Research Competition.

Eduardo does empirical research in operations management, and is an expert on analyzing massive datasets for the obtention of causal inferences relevant to top management teams. His research works—published in top academic journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management—span online retail, procurement, and supply chain management.

Eduardo is the director of the Industrial Excellence Award in Spain—a competition that benchmarks European competitiveness in the industrial and service sectors—and of IESE’s Initiative for the Excellence in Operations (INEO)—a learning community for the C-level executives of +15 manufacturing companies. Thanks to this, he has visited the plants and discussed the operations strategy with the top management teams of a number of industrial companies exceeding 2.5% of Spain’s GDP. He consults on strategy and operations and speaks in corporate events.