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  Antonio Dávila



Curriculum Vitae
 

December 2006

IESE Business School
University of Navarra
Avenida Pearson 21, Barcelona 08034
Spain
email: adavila@iese.edu

 

EDUCATION


Doctor in Business Administration, 1998. Graduate School of Business,
Harvard University.
 
Master in Business Administration, 1991. IESE, Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra, Spain.
 
Telecommunications Engineer, 1989. Polytechnic University of Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain
 

Academic Experience

Director PhD program
9/2006

IESE, Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra
 
Associate Professor,
Fall 2006 to date
IESE, Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra
 
Visiting associate professor,
Fall 2004 to Summer 2006
IESE, Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra
 
Assistant Professor, Fall 1999- Summer 2006 Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
 
Assistant Professor, Fall 1997-
Spring 1999
IESE, Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra
 
Teaching Assistant, Spring 1997 Financial Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
 
Teaching Assistant, Fall 1996 Management Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
 
Research Assistant, 1994-1997 Research assistant to Professor Robert Simons
Harvard Business School
 
Instructor, Summer 1995 English for the MBA,
Harvard Summer School, Harvard University
 
Visiting Professor, Summer 1994,
1995, 1996, 1997, Spring 1998
Executive Education
IDE, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
 
Instructor, Fall 1991-Spring 1993 IESE Graduate School of Management,
University of Navarra.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
  • The Creative Enterprise (2007) Praeger (co-edited with Robert Shelton and Marc Epstein)
  • Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It (2005) Wharton Business School Publishing (co-authored with Robert Shelton and Marc Epstein)
  • Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy: Text and Cases, (2000) Prentice Hall. (main author: Robert Simons, contributors: Antonio Davila and Robert Kaplan)
Contribution to books
  • Davila, Antonio (2005). “The Promise of Management Control Systems for Innovation and Strategic Change” in Christopher S. Chapman editor, Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting, and Performance Measurement, Oxford University Press
  • Davila, Antonio and Marc Wouters (2003) “Measuring the benefits of product standardization and postponement of configuration in a supply chain,” in T. P. Harrison, H. L. Lee, and J. J. Neale editors, The Practice of Supply Chain Management, Kluwer Academic Publishing.
  • Koga, Kentaro and Antonio Davila (1999) “What is the role of performance goals in product development? A Study of Japanese Camera Manufacturers” in Michael A. Hitt, Patricia Gorman Clifford, Robert D. Nixon and Kevin P. Coyne editors Dynamic Strategic Resources: Development, Diffusion and Integration.
Research articles
  • Davila, Antonio and George Foster (2007) “Startup Firms Growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance.” The Accounting Review.
  • Davila, Antonio and Marc Wouters (2006) “An empirical test of the benefits of postponement in the supply chain.” International Journal of Production Research.
  • Davila, Antonio and Fernando Peñalva (2006) “Governance Structure and the Weighting of Performance Measures in CEO Compensation” Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Armstrong, Christopher, Antonio Davila and George Foster (2005) “Venture-Backed Private Equity Valuation and Financial Statement Information” Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Davila, Antonio and George Foster (2005) “Management accounting systems adoption decisions: Evidence and performance implications from startup companies” The Accounting Review.
  • Davila, Antonio and Marc Wouters (2005). “Multiple goals and the explicit design of conditional budgetary slack” Accounting, Organizations and Society
  • Davila, Antonio (2005). “The emergence of management control systems in the human resource function of growing firms.” Accounting, Organizations and Society
  • Davila, Antonio and Mohan Venkatachalam (2004). “The relevance of non-financial performance measures for CEO compensation: Evidence from the airline industry,” Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Davila, Antonio, Marc Epstein and Sharon Matusik (2004) “Innovation strategy and the use of performance measures,” Advances in Management Accounting.
  • Davila, Antonio and Marc Wouters (2004) “Designing cost-competitive technology products: Improving product development through cost management,” Accounting Horizons.
  • Davila, Antonio (2003) “Short-term economic incentives in new product development,” Research Policy.
  • Davila, Antonio, Mahendra Gupta and Richard Palmer (2003) “Moving procurement systems to the Internet: The adoption and use of e-procurement technologies,” European Management Journal.
  • Davila, Antonio, George Foster, and Mahendra Gupta (2003) “Venture capital financing and the growth of startup firms,” Journal of Business Venturing.
  • Davila, Antonio (2000) “An empirical study on the drivers of management control systems’ design in new product development,” Accounting, Organizations and Society.
  • Narayanan, VG and Antonio Davila (1998) “Using delegation and control systems to mitigate the trade-off between the performance-evaluation and belief-revision uses of accounting signals,” Journal of Accounting and Economics.
  • Simons, Robert and Antonio Davila (1998) “How high is your return on management?” Harvard Business Review.
Articles
  • Davila, Antonio, Marc Epstein and Robert Shelton (2006) Design for innovation: Sustain innovation to gain advantage Leadership Excellence
  • Davila Antonio (2005) Innovation and strategic change: The promise of management control systems Magazine of the Dutch Controllers’ Institute
  • Davila, Antonio and Robert Shelton (2005) The seven rules of innovation Optimize Magazine
  • Davila, Antonio, Mahendra Gupta, Richard Palmer and Tim Mills (2002) “Purchasing cards come of age: A survey of state and local government” Government Finance Review.
  • Davila, Antonio, Mahendra Gupta, Richard Palmer and Carol Normand (2002) “The saving power of purchasing cards” Business Officer.
Articles in Spanish
  • Dávila, Antonio (1999) “Nuevas herramientas de control de gestión: El cuadro de mando integral”, Revista de Antiguos del IESE.
  • Dávila, Antonio (2006) “Making innovation work” “Resolviendo el enigma de la innovación”, Revista de Antiguos del IESE.
Working papers
  • Armstrong, Christopher, Antonio Davila, John Hand and George Foster “U.S. public and private venture capital markets, 1998—2001: A fundamental information analysis” (submitted JAR)
  • Davila, Antonio and George Foster. “Board of directors in early-stage companies: Structure and performance implications“
  • Davila, Antonio, George Foster and Mu Li. “Designing Management Control Systems in Product Development: Initial choices and the influence of partners” (submitted AOS)
  • Davila, Antonio and Kentaro Koga. “Product selection strategies: A field based typology. An exploratory study on how companies allocate resources to new product development efforts.”
  • Davila, Antonio, George Foster, and Mahendra Gupta. “The impact of rounds of venture capital financing on the growth strategies of startups.”
  • Davila, Antonio, Mahendra Gupta and Richard Palmer. “The association between internal control mechanisms and decentralization of decision rights, and their impact on performance: Empirical findings.” (submitted CAR)
Cases

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
  • FC Barcelona
  • Red Herring: The magazine decision (E-178)
  • Salesforce.com: The Evolution of Marketing Systems (E-145)
  • Sygate Technologies: The Need for Planning? (E-154) (***)
  • Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer (9-102-065)
  • Logitech: (A): Passing the Baton to an External CEO (A-175)
  • Logitech (B): Redefining the Business Model (A-175B)
  • LECG and Leveraging of Intellectual Capital (
  • Check Point Software Technologies: Managing a High Growth Global Technology Company (IB-26)
  • Ebay’s Globalization Strategy (EC-1) (**)
  • The Great Game of Trinet (A-169)
  • NetCustomer: A Global Start Up (EC-26)
  • OnLink Technologies: Growth Challenges (***)
  • Applied Materials: Managing Product Costs (A-164)
  • Applied Materials: Teaching Note
Harvard Business School
  • Microsoft Latin America (9-100-040)
  • Financial Reporting and Control: Course Overview (9-195-117)
  • Preparing and Using the Statement of Cash Flows (9-196-108)
  • Chemalite, Inc. (B): Cash Flow Analysis (9-195-130)
  • Chemalite, Inc (B), Teaching Note (N5-196-144)
  • Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits (9-197-038) (*)
  • Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits, Teaching Note
  • ATH Technologies, Inc.: Making the Numbers (9-197-035) (*)
  • ATH Technologies, Inc.: Making the Numbers, Teaching Note
  • IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A),(B),(C), (9-397-058,-061,-062)
  • Becton Dickinson—Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process (N9-197-014) (*)
  • Becton Dickinson—Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process, Teaching Note
  • Citibank: Performance Evaluation (9-198-048) (*)
  • Citibank: Performance Evaluation, Teaching Note
  • Compagnie du Froid, S. A. (9-197-085) (*)
  • Compagnie du Froid, S. A., Teaching Note
  • Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan
  • Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust (9-198-089) (*)
  • Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems (9-198-076) (*)
  • Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems, Teaching Note
  • Purity Steel Corporation, 1995 (*)
  • Purity Steel Corporation, 1995, Teaching Note
* Included in Robert Simons Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, Prentice Hall.

** Included in Roger Kerin Strategic Marketing Problems: Cases and Comments, 10th edition Prentice Hall

*** Included in forthcoming book by Prof. William Miller

Professional Activities

Editorial board of:
  • Accounting, Organizations and Society
  • Journal of Management Accounting Research
  • Advances in Management Accounting
Presentations

Presentation at AAA Management Accounting Section Meeting, 2006: Startup growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance

Presentation at EIASM Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice 2005 Startup growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance

Presentation at Aarhus University, Denmark, 2005 Startup growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance

Presentation at 35th EISB, 2005: Startup growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance

Presentation at University of Washington, 2005: Startup growth, Management Control Systems Adoption, and Performance

Presentation at EIASM Management Accounting Conference, 2004: Management Accounting Systems Adoption Decisions: Evidence and Performance Implications from Startup Companies

Presentation at Iowa University, 2004: Corporate Governance and the Weighting of Performance Measures in CEO Compensation

Presentation at London School of Economics, 2004: The relevance of non-financial performance measures for CEO compensation: Evidence from the airline industry

Plenary speaker, Manufacturing Accounting Research Conference, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2003.

Presentation at AAA Management Accounting Meeting, 2003: An empirical test of the benefits of postponement in the supply chain, and The emergence of management control systems in the human resource function of growing firms.

Presentation at the Strategic Management Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2001: The Impact of Venture Capital Funding on the Growth Strategy of Startups.

Presentation at EIASM Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice 2001 A Contingency Model of Innovation Strategy and Performance Measurement: An Empirical Analysis

Presentation at Waseda University, Tokyo, 2001: Beyond Target Costing: Cost Management in High-Technology Product Development (co-authored with Marc Wouters).

Presentation at Michigan State University, 2001: Meeting Budgets: Budgetary Emphasis and the Release of Budgetary Slack

Presentation at AAA Management Accounting Meeting, 2001: Meeting Budgets: Budgetary Emphasis and the Release of Budgetary Slack

Presentation at Eindhoven University of Technology, 2000: Incentive Systems in New Product Development

Presentation at London School of Economics, 2000: Meeting Budgets: Budgetary Emphasis and the Release of Budgetary Slack

Presentation at OIT group, Stanford GSB, 2000: Incentive Systems in New Product Development

1999 Tom Robertson Memorial Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

Presentation at the European Accounting Association Meeting, Bordeaux, France, 1999: Incentive Systems in New Product Development

Presentation at the Management Accounting Conference, Orlando 1999, Incentive Systems in New Product Development

Discussant at the Management Accounting Conference, Orlando 1999.

Participant at the Euroconference on Exploring Relevance in Practices and Theories of Managerial Control, EIASM, Cork, Ireland, 1998.

Presentation at the European Accounting Association Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium, 1998: An Empirical Study on the Drivers of Management Control Systems’ Design in New Product Development

Presentation at the Strategic Management Society Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 1997: A Typology of New Product Development Selection: An Empirical Study

Presentation at the Management Accounting Conference, Memphis, 1997: Alternative Uses of Accounting Information.

Participant at the American Accounting Association, Northeast Regional Meeting, 1997.

Participant at the American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium, 1995.


Awards

2005 Premio Excelencia Investigadora IESE

2004 Ramón y Cajal Scholarship from the Spanish Government

2003 Accounting research paper award "Carlos Cubillo Valverde " (7th edition)

2001-2002 Morgridge Research Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Stanford University

Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association Best Dissertation Award (runner-up), 1999.

McKinsey Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference in Orlando, 1998. Paper co-authored with Kentaro Koga entitled “What is the Role of Performance Goals in Product Development: A Study of Japanese Camera Manufacturers.”


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