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Institution
  
IESE Business School

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Born
  
September 6, 1973 (age 43) (
1973-09-06
)
Germany

Occupation
  
Economist, professor, author

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Franz Heukamp (born September 6, 1973, Germany) is a business management scholar and Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. In June 2016 was named Dean of IESE Business School.

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Biography

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Heukamp has been a member of IESE faculty since 2002. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999–2002), a degree in Civil Engineering from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - ParisTech and a degree in engineering from the Technische Universität München.

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Heukamp is a scholar of behavioral decision-making with a special interest in the area of neuroeconomics. He conducts research into neuroeconomics in conjunction with neuroscientists from the University of Navarra's School of Medicine and Hospital.

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He is a member of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Society For Neuroeconomics.

Heukamp’s teaching specialties are decision analysis and forecasting methods. He teaches in the MBA, Global Executive MBA and other executive education programs at IESE, including the Advanced Management Program which is aimed at international business leaders.

Publications

His articles have appeared in leading journals including Management Science, Social Indicators Research, Theory and Decision, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and The Journal of Private Equity.

Professor Heukamp has also authored business cases for university teaching and technical notes, among these “Erbitux: A Miracle Drug?” with Miguel A. Ariño, “NILOP Productions” also with Miguel A. Ariño, “Rattunde & Co GmbH” with Cedric Guinaud and others. Technical notes include "Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation" and “The Value of the Information,” both with A. Lewis; “Neuroeconomics,” “Option Properties” and “Derivative Markets (2005); and with M. Baucells and Cristina Rata, “Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Risk Preferences and the Role of Intuition".

Academic Management

Heukamp was Secretary General of IESE Business School between 2009 and 2012.

Since July 2012 he has been the Associate Dean for the school’s MBA Programs.

During his tenure, the IESE full-time MBA has seen a growth in international intake with 85% of its students now coming from outside of Spain and from 60 countries. He has been highly active in expanding the program's academic alliances and exchanges and has spearheaded the addition of overseas modules at IESE campuses and centers in New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Nairobi. Within its network of alliances, the IESE MBA delivers more than 30 exchange programs with top worldwide MBA programs.

Under Heukamp the MBA program has raised key performance indicators such as the average GMAT score of students, and graduate salaries. The Economist ranking of 2015 places the IESE MBA within the top 20 worldwide, and 3rd in Europe.

References

Franz Heukamp Wikipedia