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Mauro Guillen
Director, The Lauder Institute
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management


Mauro F. Guillén is the Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at Penn, a research-and-teaching program on management and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a PhD in sociology from Yale University and a Doctorate in political economy from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain.

He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe’s largest savings bank.

He has received a Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, a Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, the Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management, the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award of the American Sociological Association, the Gustavus Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights, and the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He is an Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, a former Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2005 he won the IV Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the best Spanish social scientist under the age of 40.

His current research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations. His most recent books are Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander (Princeton University Press, 2008; Santander, el banco, Madrid: LID Editorial, 2007), The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press, 2006). He is also the author of The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton University Press, 2001), Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994), and, with Charles Perrow, The AIDS Disaster (Yale University Press, 1990). In Spanish, he has published La Profesión de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and Análisis de Regresión Múltiple (CIS, 1992).

His research has appeared in a variety of academic journals in four separate fields:

Management: Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Advances in International Comparative Management, Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Financial Services Research , Organization, Trends in Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, and Sloan Management Review. Sociology: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces.

Area Studies: East Asian Economic Perspectives, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review. Applied Policy: Telecommunications Policy and Transnational Corporations. He is an Associate Editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.

Publications
Mauro Guillen (2008), Building A Global Bank: The Rise of Banco Santander
Mauro Guillen (2006), The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Mauro Guillen (2005), The Rise of Spanish Multinationals
Mauro Guillen (2002), The New Economic Sociology
Mauro Guillen, Adrian E. Tschoegl (2002), Banking on Gambling: Banks and Lottery-Linked Deposit Accounts, Journal of Financial Services Research, 21(3): 219-231
Mauro Guillen (2001), Limits of Convergence

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In The News
The European Debt Crisis — International economy 101, Radio Times, National Public Radio, 10/2011
Bloomberg TV The Bloomberg TV, 10/2011
IMF Special Report: Sorting Out Spain, Institutional Investor, 09/2011
Global Financial Turmoil, CBS News Radio (New York), 08/2011
Capital Market Overhaul, Korea Times, 08/2011
Roundtable: Where Are We Heading For?, Korea Times, 04/2011

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Knowledge@Wharton
Is Greece Close to Leaving the Eurozone? 02/01/2012
One, Two, Three Free Trade Agreements: Finally, a New Era for Global Trade? 01/27/2012
China and the WTO: Looking Back, Looking Forward 12/20/2011
Troubled Times Ahead for North Korea? 12/19/2011
Is China's Solar Industry Heading for an Eclipse? 12/07/2011
Will a Eurozone Recession Put a Damper on the World's Fragile Economic Recovery? 12/07/2011

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Honors And Awards
Spring Core Teaching Award (“Goes above and beyond the call of duty"), 2011
IV Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the most promising Spanish social scientist under the age of 40, 2005
Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, 2004
W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award, American Sociological Association, 2003
Wharton Core MBA Teaching Award, 2000
Selected as Guggenheim Fellow, 1998

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Guillen Mauro

Mauro  Guillen
212 Lauder-Fisher Hall
256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 573-6267
Fax: (215) 898-2067
guillen@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Organizational Theory; Multinational Management; Economic Sociology; International Banking Strategies