Dean of Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor of Management Studies
Fellow of Queens’ College
MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale University), Doctorate (cum laude) (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Research interests
Organisational theory; economic sociology; comparative sociology; international management; competitiveness and emerging economies; digital platforms.
Subject group: Strategy & International Business
Professional experience
Professor Guillén has consulted with Analistas Financieros Internacionales, Madrid (2006-present), Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior (ICEX), Madrid (2006-2011), Accenture Institute of High Performance (2008-2011), Caja de Ahorros de Navarra (2008-2012), and Accenture, Global Banking Practice (2013-2014), as well as several Fortune 500 companies.
Previous appointments
Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School in 2021, Professor Guillén held various positions at The Wharton School, including the Dr Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management (2003-2021), Professor of Management (2003-present), Associate Professor of Management (2000-2003), Assistant Professor of Management (1996-2000). He was also the Edward Pennel Brooks Career Development Assistant Professor of International Management and Sociology at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992-1994).
Awards & honours
- Faculty Pioneer Award, Aspen Institute, 2013
- IV Premio Fundación Banco Herrero, awarded annually to the most promising Spanish social scientist under the age of 40, 2005
- W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award(for Guler, I., Guillén, M.F. and Macpherson, J.M. (2002) “Global Competition, Institutions, and the Diffusion of Organizational Practices: The International Spread of the ISO 9000 Quality Certificates.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 47: 207-232), Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, American Sociological Association, 2003
- Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award (for “Business Groups in Emerging Economies.” Academy of Management Journal, 43(3): 362-380), International Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 1997
- President’s Book Award (for Models of Management), Social Science History Association, 1993
- Finalist, Best Dissertation Award (for “States, Professions, and Organizational Paradigms”), American Sociological Association, 1992
- Co-Winner, Sussman Dissertation Prize (for “States, Professions, and Organizational Paradigms”), Department of Sociology, Yale University, 1992
- Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States (for The AIDS Disaster), 1991
Selected publications
Guillén, M. (2020) 2030: how today’s biggest trends will collide and change the future of everything. New York, NY: St Martin’s Press/Macmillan.
A Wall Street Journal bestseller, and a Financial Times Best Book of the Year.
Translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Guillén, M. and Capron, L. (2016) “State capacity, minority shareholder protections, and stock market development.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(1): 125-160 (DOI: 10.1177/0001839215601459)
Zhou, N. and Guillén, M. (2015) “From home country to home base: a dynamic approach to the liability of foreignness.” Strategic Management Journal, 36(6): 907-917 (DOI: 10.1002/smj.2242)
Berry, H., Guillén, M. and Hendi, A.S. (2014) “Is there convergence across countries? A spatial approach.” Journal of International Business Studies, 45: 387-404 (DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.72)
Guillén, M. (2006) The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical: scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Also published in Spanish in 2009 as La disciplinada belleza de lo mecánico: el taylorismo y el nacimiento de la arquitectura modernista, Madrid: Modus Laborandi.
Guillén, M. (1994) Models of management: work, authority, and organization in a comparative perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Journal articles
Berry, H., Guillén, M. and Hendi, A.S. (2014) “Is there convergence across countries? A spatial approach.” Journal of International Business Studies, 45: 387-404 (DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.72)
Zhou, N. and Guillén, M. (2015) “From home country to home base: a dynamic approach to the liability of foreignness.” Strategic Management Journal, 36(6): 907-917 (DOI: 10.1002/smj.2242)
Guillén, M. and Capron, L. (2016) “State capacity, minority shareholder protections, and stock market development.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(1): 125-160 (DOI: 10.1177/0001839215601459)
García-García, R., García-Canal, E. and Guillén, M.F. (2022) “Walking on thin ice: CEOs′ internationalization decisions in underperforming firms.” Long Range Planning, 55(5): 102243 (DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2022.102243)
Books, monographs, reports & case studies
Guillén, M. (1994) Models of management: work, authority, and organization in a comparative perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Guillén, M. (2006) The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical: scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Also published in Spanish in 2009 as La disciplinada belleza de lo mecánico: el taylorismo y el nacimiento de la arquitectura modernista, Madrid: Modus Laborandi.
Guillén, M. (2020) 2030: how today’s biggest trends will collide and change the future of everything. New York, NY: St Martin’s Press/Macmillan.
A Wall Street Journal bestseller, and a Financial Times Best Book of the Year.
Translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
