Maximilian B. Torres

Biography

Max Torres joined IESE?s faculty in 1992 and currently holds visiting appointments in two departments, Business Ethics and Managing People in Organizations. Formerly a member of the permanent faculty, he returned to his native United States of America in 2002. He teaches courses in business ethics, organizational behavior and leadership in various IESE programs, and has taught corporate law, business associations, and securities regulation in the US since 2004. He is currently the founding director of the Three-Dimensional Leadership Institute in Ann Arbor, MI. His research centers on the relationships among decision-making, personal character and organizational culture and is multi-disciplinary in scope, spanning business, ethics and law. In aims to identify, model and harnesses the intangible human phenomena underlying measurable results in organizations. His most recent publication, "Getting Business Off Steroids" (2009) was the opening chapter of Doing Well And Good: The Human Face of the New Capitalism (Information Age Publishing, Ethics in Practice Series). He has won numerous awards, and was recipient of the 2003 Novak Award from Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, MI. He serves on the executive board of the Journal of Markets and Morality and the editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics Education. His opinions on the financial crisis of '08 can be heard on Ave Maria Radio, WDEO in Ann Arbor, MI, and found in the podcast archives of "Kresta in the Afternoon."

Research Interest

* Ethical decision-making * Leadership and motivation * Corporate governance * Organizational pathology