Eric Weber
Professor
Accounting and Control
IESE Business School Universidad de Navarra
Spain
Biography
Professor Eric Weber is associate dean of IESE Business School and professor of accounting and control. He is a member of both the Executive Committee of IESE and the Harvard Business School - IESE Advisory Committee. He has formerly served as the associate dean for the MBA program, as the associate dean for Executive Education and Executive MBA Programs, and as the academic director for the Global Executive MBA program. Dr. Weber earned his Ph.D. in Management (Accounting and Information Systems) from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA, and his MBA from IESE. He also holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Universidad Simón Bolivar, in Venezuela.
Research Interest
Areas of Interest * Management control systems * Cost accounting and decision-making: the design of cost systems * The regulation of the auditing market: differences between North American and European (EU) systems and between specific countries within the European Union
Publications
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Managers take decisions whose contents are the everyday work of the people they manage. By their very nature, managers deal with their subordinates' liberty; as such their decisions must be prudential.
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The complexity and discretional nature of management decisions requires leaving aside preconceived mental schemas and, using their strong points, generating one's own window on the world for non-technical or highly uncertain questions.
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1) Control de la gestión: un marco conceptual; 2) Instrumentos para el control de la gestión; 3) El «Controller»: Papel y funciones.
