Lourdes Casanova


Lourdes S. Casanova is an academic, author and currently a Senior Lecturer of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. Before her appointment to Johnson School, Casanova was a lecturer in the Strategy Department at INSEAD. She specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets. In 2014 and 2015, Lourdes Casanova was appointed as one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. Also, she is member of the Board of Directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.

Affiliations

Lourdes Casanova is a Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University, since 2012. She is also the Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. For the previous 23 years she was a lecturer in the Strategy Department of INSEAD.
Past teaching experiences include visiting faculty positions and guest lecturer assignments at Tecnológico de Monterrey, HEC Montréal, ESADE Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, San Diego University's School of Business Administration, Oxford University’s Latin American Center, Cambridge Judge Business School, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona’s Institute of European Studies, Universität Zürich, and Haas School of Business. She is a visiting professor at Wenzhou University, China.
Casanova is also a former awardee of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
She is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America. Also, she's a member of the Competitiveness in Latin America Task Force and of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America of the World Economic Forum,. Furthermore, she is a board member and chairperson of the Compensation Committee of the Boyce Thompson Institute, a member of the Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, the World Investment Network of the UNCTAD, B20 Business Summit's Information and Communication Technologies and Innovation task force, a reviewer of Strategy Management Journal, and was responsible at INSEAD of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative. She is a board member of a start-up Documenta, a member of the Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms and the Nominating committee of the World Innovation Summit. She is also member in the Executive Committee of the Cornell Institute for European Studies, member of the advisory board of the Tompkins County Public Library, a member of the NCE Standing Selection Committee, and a founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau. She is also a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank.
Casanova speaks Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.

Current books

As of January 2023 the following books were published:
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2022. '. 4 November 2022..
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2021. '. 5 November 2021..
  • Cahen. F.; Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2021. From copycats to Leaders: Innovation from Emerging Markets. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/es/academic/subjects/management/international-business/innovation-emerging-markets-copycats-leaders?format=HB https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Emerging-Markets-Copycats-Leaders/dp/110848686X
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2020. '. 6 November 2020..
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2019. '. 8 November 2019..
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2019. . Academic Press. Elsevier. Paperback eBook
  • Casanova, L.; Cornelius, P. and Dutta, S. 2017. '. Elsevier.
  • Taotao Chen, Lourdes Casanova, Chen Chen, Run Xu. 2017. Transnational Companies from China and Latin America. Lessons from a comparative analysis. 2017. Report for CAF. Taotao Chen, Lourdes Casanova, Chen Chen, Run Xu.
  • Casanova, L.. . Pensamiento Iberoamericano. Revista de la Secretaría General Iberoamerican. 3a época/01/2017. pp 140–147.
  • Casanova, L.. I . 4 July 2017. Esglobal/Secretaría Permanente de las Cumbres Iberoamericanas.
  • Casanova, L.. '. Esglobal. 4 July 2017.
  • Casanova, L.. . Esglobal. 22 May 2017.
Casanova with Anne Miroux wrote the forthcoming Emerging Multinationals coming of age. Casanova with P. Hertenstein and B. Hobdari edited the 2016 book New Wine in Old Bottles? The Role of Emerging Markets Multinationals in advancing IB Theory and Research in the International Journal of Emerging Markets, a special Issue. in 2015, Casanova with Julian Kasum wrote the book Brazil - A Economia Política de uma Potência Global Emergente. This book is available in English.
Casanova is coauthor of the book ', published in 2014, and author of the book ', published in 2009. Furthermore, she coauthored “” in 2011 and “” in 2012.

Selected works

Casanova has published numerous reports, case studies, chapters in books and articles in journals including Beijing Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Business and Politics, and Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica.
  • Casanova, L.. La pandemia, un punto de inflexión para las empresas españolas en Iberoamérica y en el mundo Documentos de Trabajo 48 / 2021. Madrid. Fundación Carolina. https://www.fundacioncarolina.es/dt_fc_48/ ISSN-e: 1885-9119
  • Casanova, L. 2021. La Estrategia Comercial de Biden. ¿Será Latinoamérica una prioridad para el nuevo gobierno de Estados Unidos? Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. Volumen 21. Númro 1. Enero-Marzo 2021. http://revistafal.com/la-estrategia-comercial-de-biden/
  • Casanova, L. 2020. Las Multinacionales españolas ante un futuro incierto. In Geopolítica y Comercio en tiempos de cambio. Una mirada desde Barcelona. P. García-Durán Huet and Eloi Serrano Robles December 2020. Monografías CIDOB 79. Barcelona. https://www.cidob.org/es/articulos/monografias/geopolitica/las_multinacionales_espanolas_ante_un_futuro_incierto https://www.cidob.org/es/publicaciones/serie_de_publicacion/monografias/monografias/geopolitica_y_comercio_en_tiempos_de_cambio_una_mirada_desde_barcelona
  • Casanova, L. 2020. El daño económico del covid-19 en Latinoamérica. Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. Volumen 20. Número 3. ITAM. July/September 2020. http://revistafal.com/fal-20-3/
  • Casanova, L. and A. Miroux. 2019. “” in Vecchi A. Chinese Acquisitions in Developed Countries. Measuring Operations Performance. Springer, cham. Switzerland AG.
  • Casanova, L. Taotao Chen, Chen Chen & Run Xu, Transnational Corporations Review,
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2018. Special Issue. Transnational Corporations Review. Transnational Corporations Review, Volume 10. Issue 4. Pages: 285-295. 2019-03-21.
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2018. '. 9 November 2018..
  • Casanova, L. and A. Miroux 2017, “” in OECD EMnet, “Business Insights on Emerging Markets 2016”, OECD Emerging Markets Network, OECD Development Centre, Paris.
  • Casanova, L. and Kassum, J. 2017. In Multilatinas: Strategies for Internationalization. Andonova, V., and Losada, M.. Cambridge University Press.
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2017. . Emerging Markets Institute. S.C. Johnson School of Management. Cornell University.
  • Casanova, L. and Miroux, A. 2016. '. 8 December 2016. Blog. World Economic Forum.
  • Casanova, L. and A. Miroux, ' in OECD EMnet, “Business Insights on Emerging Markets 2015”, OECD Emerging Markets Network, OECD Development Centre, Paris, http://www.oecd.org/dev/oecdemnet.htm.
  • Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2016. '. Emerging Markets Institute. S.C. Johnson School of Management. Cornell University.
  • Casanova, L.; Chen C.; Taotao C.: 2016. China and Latin America Go Global: A Comparison of the Characteristics and Development Phases of Outward Foreign Direct Investment. EMI Johnson Working Papers. Cornell University.
  • Casanova, L.; Bacaria, Josep M.; Coll, J.M.; Rullán, S. 2016. '. EMI Johnson Working Papers. Cornell University. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2593068
  • Casanova, L. 2016. China and Latin America Go Global: A Comparison of the Characteristics and Development Phases of Outward Foreign Direct Investment. EMI Johnson Working Papers. Cornell University.
  • Casanova, L. and Sukriti Jain. 2016. Innovation in Latin America. In Haar, J. and Ernst, R., Innovation in Emerging Markets. International Political Economy series. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Casanova, L. and A. Miroux. 2016, “” in OECD EMnet, “Business Insights on Emerging Markets 2015”, OECD Emerging Markets Network, OECD Development Centre, Paris
  • Casanova, L. 2016. Latin American Multinationals moving ahead. In Fernández, P. and Lluch, A.. Evolution of Family Business: Continuity and Change in Latin America and Spain. Edward Elgar.
  • Peña-Vinces, JC. Casanova, L. Guillen, J. & Urbano D. 2016. International Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Peru, a Latin-American Emerging Market. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. .
  • Rullá n S. and Casanova, L. 2015. '. Special Issue of Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting in International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research. Vol. 8 Issue 3: 59-68. December 2015.
  • Casanova, L. Latin American multinationals facing the new reality. 2015. Revista Brasileira de Comercio Exterior nr. 123. Ano XXIX. A revista da Funcex: Fundaçao Centro Estudos de Comércio Exterior. Brazil. April–May–June 2015.
  • Casanova, L. & Kassum, J. 2014. The Brasília Consensus: Looking for a second wind. The World Financial Review. September–October.

Awards

  • Awarded in 2017 - One of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal.
  • Awarded in 2014 and 2015 – One of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal, published by the Foundation for International Relations and Dialogue.
In 1987 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Media articles and interviews

  • Casanova, L. 2021. Sólo ganamos si nadie pierde. 28 March. El Pais. Madrid. Spain. https://elpais.com/economia/2021-03-28/solo-ganamos-si-nadie-pierde.html
  • CASANOVA, L. 2020. BLOG AGENDA PUBLICA. EL MUNDO DE BIDEN: ¿DÓNDE QUEDA AMÉRICA LATINA? Nov 14, 2020. Agenda Pública. http://agendapublica.elpais.com/el-mundo-de-biden-donde-queda-america-latina/
  • Casanova, L. ¿Qué cambiará con China? La Vanguardia. Barcelona. Spain. October 25, 2020.
  • Casanova, L. 2020. Whatever it takes: Latin America’s solution to the crisis. Latin Trade. August–October 2020. https://latintrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/LT.2.2020-low.opti_.edit_.cjr_.pdf
  • Casanova, L. 2020 ¿Quién está al Mando? El País. Spain. 15 August 2020. https://elpais.com/economia/2020-08-15/quien-esta-al-mando.html
  • Interview by CNN en español. "". 29 January 2019.
  • Interview by Zhen Xin. January 18, 2019. "".
  • Casanova, L. 2018. "". 15 March 2018. World Economic Forum.
  • "" 29 March 2015. Portafolio. Colombia
  • "Global Latinas in Search of a second wind" 2015. Latin Trade.
  • "". Latin Trade. March–April 2015
  • "What next for BNDES and Brazil banks’ overseas expansion?" October 20, 2014. Business News Americas.
  • "". Jeroen Ansink. Fortune. 10 June 2014.
  • "Who is who in internationalization: Interview with Prof. Lourdes Casanova". Estrategiaparatodos. 15 July 2013. Blog Evodio Kaltenecker.
  • "". Latin Trade. 4 April 2013. Ryan Dube.
  • "". O Estado de S. Paulo. 1 October 2012. Casanova, L.
Casanova is a regular contributor to CNN en español. She also regularly writes opinion columns in the Latin Trade magazine.

Research interests