A Day In The Life Of An Associate Professor At IESE Business School

The link to the previous point I mentioned about The Three Hats is the typical day. I would say a typical day has a little bit of everything.

It's difficult to speak about a typical day. Perhaps a typical week is a bit easier to respond to. In any case, I don't teach every day.

Obviously, the days I teach take a lot of my energy because I have to prepare well for the session. Then the session happens, and there's always a debrief. Students come and ask questions. I might have to send materials used in class as a handout after class, or evaluate the participants.

If you're teaching, that day takes a lot of your time. But as I mentioned earlier, every day or every week there's a meeting for a research paper you're working on. Or maybe you need time by yourself to think about the next study you'll run to support your thesis.

Maybe you're getting your feet wet in a specific literature or area of marketing, and that's my field. Or as I mentioned earlier, I may have some pending analysis to do for a specific company I'm working for. I might have meetings with people in an organization we're working on a project with, or a question we're trying to solve.

So, I didn't respond directly, but maybe a typical day or typical week has a little bit of those three things: teaching, research, and advising or consulting.