The Rafael del Pino Foundation decided in 2023 to award a Rafael del Pino Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation to Professor Emilio Castilla, NTU Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management, for his co-direction of the programme Frontiers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Castilla joined the MIT Sloan faculty in 2005, after having been a faculty member in the Department of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently co-director of the MIT Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, as well as a research fellow at the Wharton Center for Financial Institutions and the Wharton School's Center for Human Resources. In the recent past, he was also head of the Labour and Organizational Studies Group. He received his postgraduate degree in Business Analysis from Lancaster University Management School (UK) and his Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University. Professor Castilla studies how social and organisational processes influence key employment outcomes over time. He approaches his research questions by examining different empirical contexts with longitudinal data sets, both at the individual and firm level. It focuses on the recruitment, hiring, compensation, development and job mobility of employees within and across organisations, as well as the impact of social relations on performance and innovation.
His work has been published in top academic journals and edited volumes such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review. He has also written a book on the use of longitudinal methods in social science research (Elsevier/Academic Press). Professor Castilla has taught in several undergraduate programmes at MIT Sloan, the Wharton School and other international universities. His teaching interests include Strategies for People Analysis, Strategic Human Resource Management, Leading Effective Organisations, Talent Management, Building Successful Careers and Organisational Behaviour. In addition to teaching MBA and full-time executive courses, he has taught several doctoral seminars.