Christoph Loch - Biography#

Christoph H. Loch is Professor of Operations and Technology Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona. Until 2024, he was Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), where he served as the Director (Dean) of the school from 2011-2021. A university business school combines academic activities (published research and degree teaching) with commercial activities in competitive markets (programmes and executive education). Under his leadership since 2011, CJBS grew in revenues from £24m in 2011-12 to £60m in 2019-20, breaking even every year while continuing to make a financial contribution to the University of Cambridge. On the teaching side, CJBS’ ranked programmes (MBA, EMBA, Master of Finance, and Executive Education) were all ranked in the FT Global top 20 in 2020 (from only one of them ranked in 2011). On the research side, the 2021 UK government’s official university research benchmarking exercise (“REF”), conducted every seven years, ranked CJBS as the best research school of all UK business schools (after a second place in 2014).

As an academic, Professor Loch has continued to teach and conduct research. His experience lies in the management of innovation in organizations, project management, and the emotional side of motivation of professional personnel. He was identified as one of the top ten Innovation researchers worldwide in the Journal of Product Innovation Management in 2012 , and he was identified as one of the top ten researchers worldwide in Operations Management in the journal Decision Sciences in 2020 . Since January 2024, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Management Science.

Employment

• IESE Business School, University of Navarra: Professor of Operations and Technology Management (since 2024)
  
• Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge: Professor of Operations and Technology Management (2011 - 2024)
  
• Director (Dean) (2011- 2021)
  
• Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen, China: Visiting Prof. of Operations and Technology Management (2023 - 2024)
  
• INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France: Professor of Technology and Operations Management (1994 - 2011)
  
• Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting Professor of Operations Management (August 2009 - July 2010)
  
• Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA: Visiting Professor in the Information Dynamics Lab (September 2002 - August 2003)
  
• McKinsey & Company, San Francisco, USA, and Munich, Germany: Associate (1991 - 1993)

Education

• Diploma in Clinical Organizational Psychology, INSEAD. Qualification for coaching of professionals, with Magna Cum Laude (June 2009).
  
• Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA. Special field Decision Sciences and Operations Management (September 1987 - September 1991).
  
• MBA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA (Sept. 1985 – Dec. 1986).
  
• Diplom-Wirtschafts-Ingenieur, Darmstadt Institute of Technology, Germany, a joint degree in mechanical engineering and business (September 1980 - May 1985).