Authors

Dr. Jill Kickul served as a professor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Narayan Research Director of the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, both at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California in the United States. She was also the academic director of the Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship at the same institution. Furthermore, she is the founding director of the Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, the largest academic conference in the field. Jill Kickul was previously director of the Social Entrepreneurship program at NYU’s Stern School of Business and academic advisor for the MBA’s Social Innovation and Impact Specialization. She also held several distinguished positions, such as president of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) in 2020, and was part of the Research Committee Chair (2018-2020) and the Teaching Committee Chair (2009-2012) for the Academy of Management, both in the Entrepreneurship Division. Her career has been marked by a focus on entrepreneurial studies and social enterprise, where she combines her expertise in research with practical applications in these fields. Her work primarily revolves around understanding and fostering entrepreneurship, particularly emphasizing social entrepreneurship and its impact on society. 

Director Emerita at McKinsey & Company, Joanna helped consumer-facing clients for over 30 years on growth strategy, performance transformation, organization effectiveness, and leadership development. In 2007, Joanna led the creation of Centered Leadership with the mission to develop all leaders seeking to transform their organizations and communities. Joanna has counseled over 100 companies, governments, and organizations around the world, including Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, U.A.E. and many western countries. She leads top team discussions, facilitates executive workshops, and delivers keynotes on centered leadership, unlocking the potential of women, and engaging Millennials in the workforce.

El Dr. Jorge Alberto Alvarado es economista en Banco de México y profesor de cátedra en el departamento de economía del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.

Dr. Velarde currently holds the position of Director of Academic Programs at EGADE Business School. His fields of teaching and research include macroeconomics and microeconomics, corporate finance, bond markets and capital markets. He has published on various economic and financial themes including various papers on the valuation of public companies listed on the Mexican stock Exchange and case studies at a national and international level, including “México:¿Se hubiera podido prevenir la crisis de 1994?” and “Selling? That is easy". In the corporate world, he has worked as an analyst at Vector Casa de Bolsa and as Deputy Director of Economic and Financial Studies in GBM Grupo Bursátil Mexicano. In the public sector, at federal level, he was a member of the group of economic advisors of the Ministry of Economy. He has also been an economic and financial advisor to private companies and has participated as a mentor and consultant in company incubators and accelerators.

Jorge Vera holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences, with honors, from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MBA from the Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). He also holds a degree in experimental psychology from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Before his career in academe, he had made his mark as a market research consultant. Currently, Jorge Vera is a research professor in the Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School, Mexico City Campus. He has taught, at graduate and undergraduate levels, subjects such as marketing research, empirical research methodology, instrument design, strategic marketing, brand management and multivariate methods for marketing decisions. At the EGADE Business School, he is currently leader-coordinator of the Research Group (GIEE) on Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing. He has been an active member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Science and Technology Council of Mexico (CONACyT) since 2006. He has published several research articles in scientific reviews on topics such as consumer behavior, service/product performance, consumer involvement, perceived value, brand perceptions and marketing strategies.

He is currently director of the Regional Department of Management and Leadership of the Business School in the South Region of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, he has a doctorate in Government and Public Administration from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset of Madrid Spain.He has been a consultant, researcher and professor in the areas of planning, strategy, transformation, competitiveness and regional development for the past 19 years, in addition to having designed and facilitated various projects and processes of strategic development, competitiveness and educational innovation. He has participated in more than 25 consulting projects in Mexico and Central America, and he has more than 10 publications in specialized magazines. He actively participates as a columnist in various media.

Jorge Ramos Mercado's research focuses on dynamic information economics. He was a research associate at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from 2014 to 2017 and a research assistant at the Center for Opportunity and Inclusive Growth at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2019 to 2021. He has worked with multiple researchers on projects ranging from industrial organization and the implications of government programs on well-being. Within his teaching experience, he was an instructor of Industrial Organization and Cost-Benefit Analysis for undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota.

Professor Núñez Mora’s research and teaching focuses on the field of financial risk. As a researcher, he actively participates in the publication of articles in different national and international journals, books, and book chapters. Professor Núñez Mora is a member of the SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Level II, Conacyt. He is Director of the EGADE Business School’s  Journal of Administration, Finance, and Economics and he has directed 10 theses in the last five years for students of the Ph.D in Financial Sciences program. In addition to his teaching activity at EGADE, Professor Núñez has been the Director of the Ph.D. in Management Sciences. He has also carried out consultancy in Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus, in topics related to the macro-economic impact of pension reforms in Mexico.