Professor Juan Alcacer - Biography and Contribution

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard bUSINESS sCHOOL

Juan Alcacer received his Ph.D. in International Business and Strategy and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from IESA. Before entering graduate school he worked as an associate at McKinsey & Co. in Latin America. 

Professor Alcacer’s research interests are in international strategies of firms in the Telecommunications industry. His current research focuses primarily on the effect of competition on the location decisions of multinationals.

Recent Research Papers of  Professor Juan Alcacer

Alcacer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming).

Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies." Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming).

Alcacer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley. "Learning by Supplying." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 2 (February 2014): 204–223.

Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao. "Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices." Special Issue on The Multinational in Geographic Space. Journal of International Business Studies 44, no. 5 (June–July 2013): 504–520.

Alcacer, Juan, and Minyuan Zhao. "Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages." Management Science 58, no. 4 (April 2012): 734–753.

Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Seeking." Global Strategy Journal 1, nos. 1-2 (May, 2011): 132–134.

Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval." Global Strategy Journal 1, nos. 3-4 (2011): 233–236.


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