IESE Business School
Visiting Professor of Business
Av. Pearson, 21
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: 34 93 253 42 00
torresmax@iese.edu

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Ph.D.
University of Navarra (Doctor of Business Administration—Summa Cum Laude)

• Dissertation in Business Ethics: Character and Decision-Making—A Dynamic Model of Ethical Decision-Making
  

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D.

• Thesis in Comparative Law: Liberty v. Dignity—A Comparative Inquiry into Law and
  Ethics in the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany
  

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PHILOSOPHY
(“grundkurs“; non-degree student)

HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, B.S.
University of California, Berkeley

• Dual Emphasis: Finance; Applied Economics

CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, A.A.

• Student Body President
  
  

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA
Assistant Professor of Business Administration (1992-2004); extended leave (2004-2009); Visiting Professor (2005-2007)

• First-year MBA: Leading Organizations (2005-2007); Ethics, Leadership and Values (2001-2002, 2003-2004); Organizational Behavior (1996-2001); Business Ethics (1993-1996)
• Global Executive MBA (Internet Based): Organizational Behavior (2001-2004; 2007-2008)
• Executive MBA: Organizational Behavior (Madrid; 2003-2004)
• International Executive Education: Leadership (1997-2002)
• International Faculty Development Program (Eastern European Professors): Business Ethics (2000-2002)
• First-year Ph.D.: Management Theory (2002)
• Research interests: ethics and business; ethics and law; positive ethical decision-making models; anthropological theory for social sciences; conditions for organizational unity

PETTIT COLLEGE OF LAW, OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor of Law

• Upper-level JD Requirement: Business Organizations I (2006-2007)
• Upper-Level JD Electives: Business Organizations II (2006-2007); Securities Regulation (2006-2007)
• LLM Requirement: Legal Context of American Business (2006-2007)

IME—INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT
Professor of Management

• Media and Entertainment Ethics (2004-2006)
• Special Project: developed the inaugural M&E Ethics module
  

AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW
Visiting Associate Professor of Law

• Upper-level JD Requirements: Professional Responsibility (2004-2005); Business Organizations (2005-2006)
• Upper-level JD Elective: Securities Regulation (2004-2006)
  
  
  

TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT DARTMOUTH
Visiting Scholar (2002-2003); Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration (2003-2004)

• Second-year elective: Business Ethics (2003-2004)
• Special Project: developed the ethics course; co-taught individual sessions with seven functional area professors (Cost Accounting; Financial Accounting; Corporate Governance; Managerial Economics; Marketing; Real Estate; Strategy)
  
  
  

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Visiting Scholar (summer)

IEDC—BLED SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Visiting Professor of Management (spring)

• Executive MBA: Human Resource Management
  

SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW
Part-time Professor of Law (summer)

• Upper-level Elective: Church-State Relations
  

1986-1988

MAX TORRES & CO
Independent Financial Services Consultant

• Sole Proprietor; Registered Securities Principle with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) through Private Ledger, an independent broker/dealer

WALNUT CREEK, CA

1985-1986

D/A FINANCIAL GROUP
Executive Vice President of Investments

• Manager of the securities department; registered with the NASD through PML Securities Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, PA.

ORINDA, CA

1983-1985

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH
Financial Consultant

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

1979-1983

DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC.
Account Executive

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Journal Articles

JOURNAL OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTING; 1524-5586/Vol. VI (2005), pp. 491-494: “Truth: The Indispensable Precondition of Business”

HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY; 28 HJLPP 282 (1991): Commentary on the United States Supreme Court ruling in Employment Division Department of Human Resources v. Smith

Book Chapters

A VIRTUE-BASED BUSINESS ETHICS, Acton Center for Entrepreneurial Stewardship (2005): “Is There a Relationship Between My Success and Significance?” Eds., Gregg, S. & G. Zandstra, Ch. 5, pp. 131-148.

DEMOGRAPHIE UND WOHLSTAND. NEUER STELLENWERT FÜR FAMILIE IN WIRTSCHAFT UND GESELLSCHAFT (DEMOGRAPHY AND WELFARE. NEW PRIORITY FOR THE FAMILY IN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY), Leske + Budrich Verlag, Opladen (2003): “Familie, Humankapital und Zukunftsfahigkeit” (“Family, Human Capital and Economic Sustainability”), Ed., Leipert, C., pp. 223-237.

PARADIGMAS DEL LIDERAZGO: CLAVES DE LA DIRECCION DE PERSONAS (PARADIGMS OF LEADERSHIP: KEYS TO MANAGING PEOPLE), McGraw Hill Interamericana de Espanya (2001): “Liderazgo personal” (“Personal Leadership”), Ch. 8, pp. 115-129.
(with Dr. Maria Nuria Chinchilla, University of Navarra—IESE Business School)

Research Papers

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Ph.D. dissertation (2001): “Character and Decision-Making”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Research Paper No. 358 (1998): “Ethical Decision-Making Models”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Research Paper No. 349 (1997): “Survey of Theories Employed in Business Ethics”

Technical Notes

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, TDN-121E (2002): “Ethical Theory for Managers”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, FHN-334E (2001): “Motivational Conflicts”

Case Studies

MCGRAW-HILL (Forthcoming 2006; Laura Hartman, editor, Business Ethics text): “David Duncan and the Demise of Arthur Andersen” (included in her chapter on governance and accounting)

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, TD-146E, 150E, 151E, 152E (2002): “Salomon Brothers” (A-D)

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, TD-147E, 148E, 149E (2002): “Marshall Bradley at Hoffman Lucas” (A-C)
(with Dr. Joseph Harder, University of Virginia—Darden Graduate School of Business)

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, FH-665E (1999): “Welcome to E.G. Financial”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, TD-109E (1996): “Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, TD-110E (1996): “Storm on Wall Street” (C) (with Dr. Domenec Mele, University of Navarra—IESE Business School)

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, DP-117E (1996): “John Bak” (Postscript)

Newsletters

ACTON NEWS AND COMMENTARY, Acton Institute (January 19, 2005): “Truth: The Indispensable Condition of Business”

ACTON NEWS AND COMMENTARY, Acton Institute (January 26, 2005): “The Scandal of Anti-truth: The Era of Fraud”

ACTON NEWS AND COMMENTARY, Acton Institute (February 2, 2005): “What Have We Learned?”

Book Reviews

HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION; 14 HJOL 282 (1991): Book Review of Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe's Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes

Op-Ed Pieces

LA VANGUARDIA—Spain, USA Supplement, p.5 (Wed., April 19, 2000): “Square Wheels and American Minds”

Magazines

IESE ALUMNI MAGAZINE—Spain, Nº 75, pp. 52-3 (September, 1999): “On the Business Polis”

Speeches

ACTON INSTITUTE, Calihan Lecture—Washington, DC (December, 2004): “Business Ethics and Truth: Restoring the Broken Nexus” (See “Awards,” 2003 Novak Award)

Solo Seminars

ASOCIACION ARTE Y CULTURA, (ART AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION), Seminar on Ethical Leadership in Finance—San Jose, Costa Rica (August, 2003): “Surmounting the Era of Fraud”

ASOCIACION PARA LA COOPERACION EDUCATIVA NICARAGUENSE (NICARAGUAN ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION), Seminar on Ethical Leadership in Business—Managua, Nicaragua (August, 2003): “Surmounting the Era of Fraud”

ASOCIACION PARA LA COOPERACION CULTURAL (ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL COOPERATION), Seminar on Ethics in Finance—Panama City, Panama (August, 2003): “Surmounting the Era of Fraud”

EUROPEAN TRAINING CENTER, Beyond Excellence: A Seminar on Leadership and Virtue Ethics—Helsinki, Finland (November, 2001): “Being More, Doing More & Having More: Developing One’s Capacity for Rational Decision-Making”

Seminars

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Ph.D. dissertation (2001): “Character and Decision-Making”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Research Paper No. 358 (1998): “Ethical Decision-Making Models”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Research Paper No. 349 (1997): “Survey of Theories Employed in Business Ethics”

Conferences

KOORDINATIONSKREIS FAMILIEN- und GESELLSCHAFTSPOLITIK, INTERNATIONALE STIFTUNG HUMANUM (CIRCLE OF COOPERATION FOR FAMILY AND SOCIAL POLICY, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN FOUNDATION), Demography and Prosperity: New Priority for the Family in Economy and Society—Berlin, Germany (June, 2002): “Family Education: The Basis for Education, Every-day Competence and Success in Occupational Life”

DePAUL UNIVERSITY, The Eighth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics—Chicago, Illinois (October, 2001): “Character and Decision-Making”

PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE, Work as Key to the Social Question: The Great Social and Economic Transformations and the Subjective Dimension of Work Conference—Rome & Vatican City (September, 2001): “From Personalist Philosophy to Positive Science: A Conceptual Approach to Bridging the Gap between Moral Theory and Management Practice”

IPADE, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Biannual Meeting of Alliance Network Schools (IESE, Spain; IPADE, Mexico; IDE, Ecuador; AESE, Portugal; PAD, Peru; IEEM, Uruguay; IAE, Argentina; INALDE, Columbia; TAYASAL, Guatemala; ISE, Brazil; UAP, Philippines; LBS, Nigeria; ESE, Chile)—Mexico City, Mexico (August, 2001): “Organizational Behavior in Cyberspace: A Report on IESE Business School’s Inaugural Global Executive MBA Distributed Learning Program”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Ethics in Leadership Colloquium: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century—Barcelona, Spain (November, 1999): “The Capacity to Lead: Classical Wisdom about Virtues for Tomorrow’s Leader”

IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Biannual Meeting of Alliance Network Schools (See above)—Barcelona, Spain (June, 1999): “A Freedom-Centric Model of Ethical Decision-Making”

EUROPEAN TRAINING CENTER, Conference: Beyond Excellence: Practical Views on the Ethical Dimension of Business—Helsinki, Finland (November, 1998): “Ethical Decision-Making, Virtue and Business Organizations”

EUROPEAN TRAINING CENTER, Conference: Beyond Excellence: Practical Views on the Ethical Dimension of Business—Helsinki, Finland (November, 1998): “Business Activity as Envisioned in the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church”

UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, National Congress of Economics and Management Students—Porto, Portugal (May, 1996): “Business Ethics in Theory and Practice”

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, Business Ethics, Legal Ethics and the Family Conference—Porto, Portugal (April, 1994): “Structural Impediments to the Ethical Formation of Management Students”

Quotations

CFA MAGAZINE (SEPT-OCT 2005): “Friend or Foe?: Investors need to be aware of conflicts of interest posed by performance fees,” by Lori Pizzani

BALTIMORE SUN (March 8, 2005): “Affairs Are Bad Business—Ethics: Romance Between Workers Can Be Detrimental, Especially When the Boss is Involved,” by Blanca Torres, Sun Staff

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE (March 26, 2004): “24-Year Prison Term for Executive in Fraud Sends Tough Message,” by Rob Lever