University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Lauder Institute (2003)
In 2003, the Rafael del Pino Foundation decided to award a Rafael del Pino Chair to Mauro Federico Guillén Rodríguez, Professor of International Business Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The research took place mainly at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). In accordance with the agreement signed on 13 June 2003, the objective of the Chair was for Professor Guillén to carry out research under the title "The Spanish Multinational Company: Economic and Organisational Characteristics".
Professor Guillén completed the research in the summer of 2004 and it was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press under the title The Rise of the Spanish Multinational Firm. European Business in the Global Economy. In Spain it was published in 2006 by the Rafael del Pino Foundation in its Economics and Business Collection, under the title "The Rise of the Spanish Multinational Firm".
In his work, Professor M. Guillén analyses the causes and consequences of Spanish investment abroad. The analysis is based on numerous sources of information: some 110 interviews with businessmen, managers, politicians, diplomats, experts and journalists; several public opinion polls; data on Spanish companies and their international activities; confidential reports and all sorts of internal documents, as well as existing academic and journalistic literature.
As a complementary activity, Professor Mauro Guillén gave a seminar on "Theory, strategy and organisation of the multinational company" at the Department of Business Organisation of the Complutense University of Madrid, as part of the PhD course "Strategic Management of the Company".
Mauro Guillén was appointed Director of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. His latest publication is entitled: Santander, el banco (Editorial LID) and is co-written with Adrian Tschoegl, Professor of Management at the Wharton School and prefaced by Fernando González Urbaneja, journalist.