Loredana Padurean

Faculty Fellow at Sloan School of Management

Biography

Sloan School of Management

Prof. Dr. Loredana Padurean is the Senior Associate Dean at the all new Asia School of Business, a collaboration between the Central Bank of Malaysia and MIT Sloan School of Management, and an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan.

Loredana is the Faculty Director for Action Learning and Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ASB. Prof. Loredana has been an energizing force behind the establishment of the school and, in particular, the development of MIT Sloan-devised action learning programs in Asia, in collaboration with corporate partners in the region.Under her leadership, the Action Learning program at ASB was recognized repeatedly as one of the most innovative program in the world.

She is an international keynote and TedX speaker that shared the stage with Steve Wozniak, Bob Geldof, ministers, deans, authors and public figures in the United States, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

Prof. Loredana has taught in various MIT Sloan executive programs such as the Executive Program in General Management (EPGM), the MIT Scaling Bootcamp, Driving Strategic Innovation, at IMD Lausanne and Cambridge, MA, as well as regional companies such as AirAsia, AIIB, MIDF, Thomson Hospital, AXIATA ADA, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council, China Construction Bank, Maybank, CIMB, Prudential, Khazanah Nasional and many more.

She just published her most recent book “The Job is Easy, The People are Not - 10 Smart Skills to Become Better People” and she is working on her next book “Nail it, Scale, It Sail it - Operations for Entrepreneurs”, that focuses on understanding the evolution of start-ups to scale-ups to sail-ups.

Prof. Loredana has an MA in Communication and Economics and a PhD in Management from USI Switzerland.

Education

  • PhD USI Università della Svizzera italiana (2007 — 2010)
  • MA USI Università della Svizzera italiana (2004 — 2006)
  • BA Babeș-Bolyai University (1996 — 2001)

Publications

  • Upcoming: Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, Special issue “Operations for Entrepreneurs”
  • July, 2014, Fine C., Werner M., Padurean L., (2014) “The Tesla Roadster (A): Accelerated Supply Chain Learning”, Case study, MIT SLOAN, 14-157
  • June 2011, “Destination Dynamics: Evolution and Governance of Tourist Destinations, Proceedings of the the 12th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, Cornell University, June 2011. (joint w/C. Fine).
  • Padurean L., Maggi R. (2011), “TEFI values in tourism education: A comparative analysis”, Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 11:1–14, 2011
  • Padurean L., Maggi R. (2009), “Higher Education in Tourism in English-Where?” Tourism Review year: Volume: 64 Issue: 1 Page: 48 – 58
  • Padurean L., Maggi R., (2007), “Marketing higher education in tourism based on location attributes”, APTA APac-CHRIE Tourism Education PressBook chapters
  • Book Chapter – Anja Saretzki & Karlheinz Wöhler (Eds.): Governance von Destinationen. Neue Ansätze für die erfolgreiche Steuerung touristischer. Zielgebiete, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2013 (based on my PhD dissertation)

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