Florian Federspiel

Florian Federspiel is an Assistant Professor at INCAE Business School, specializing in Managerial Decision Sciences. Prior to joining INCAE Business School, he was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business’ Operations and Information Management Group, as well as Adjunct Professor in the Operations & Technology area at IE Business School in Spain.

He focuses his teaching on the Decision Sciences for business, with the aim being to enable a critical approach to effective data-based decisions. Closely related, his research is broadly driven by the interplay of how decisions #1 are actually made in practice (based on insights from cognitive and social psychology), versus #2 how they assumedly ought to be made (based on analytical models), #3 and how we can remove possible discrepancies. As such, his research combines both descriptive and normative aspects of decision-making in order to find prescriptive solutions, enabling managers to make better decisions.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Management, as well as a M.Sc. in International Management at IE Business School, further holding a BA (Honours) in Psychology & Management from Bradford University. He is an active member of the Decision Analysis Society and editor of the Ask DAS column of Decision Analysis Today as well as member of the Behavioral Operations Management section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He is also affiliated with the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), the European Association of Decision Making (EADM), as well as the Academy of Management’s Operations Management and Managerial and Organizational Cognition divisions.

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences INCAE Business School (2016)
• Editor of Ask DAS // Decision Analysis Today Decision Analysis Society (2012)
• Visiting Scholar Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business (2015 — 2016)
• Adjunct Professor - Operations & Technology Area IE Business School (2013 — 2015)
• Teaching Assistant IE Business School (2012 — 2015)
• Research Assistant IE Business School (2010 — 2010)
• Management and Organisational Development LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG (2007 — 2007)
• Fellow Forum für internationale Friedensarbeit e.V. (2005 — 2006)
• Public Private Partnership division GTZ - Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (2003 — 2003)

Education

• Ph.D., Management (Managerial Decision Sciences) IE Business School (2010 - 2016)
• MSc IE Business School (2009 — 2010)
• BA (Honours) University of Bradford (2006 — 2009)
• Ruhr University Bochum (2008 — 2008)