Professor Steinberg's main research interests include the cultural history of modern Germany and Austria with particular attention paid to German Jewish intellectual history and the cultural history of music. He has written and lectured widely on these topics for venues such as The New York Times, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Bard Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Salzburg Festival, and he serves as an advisor to the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, as well as the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.

While she has the perspective of a psychologist, Cristina Simón believes that when teaching Human Capital and Talent Management to ExMBA students, the subject must be closely related to the harder-edged side of business. Her years spent working for consultants such as Coopers & Lybrand and Ernst & Young after getting her PhD degree have given her a distinct advantage in this respect. A particularly exciting new line of research for the professor who in 2003 created the Centre for Human Resources at IE Business School is the analysis of the employment relationship. In 2010 Professor Simón was offered a Chair in People Management by Inditex, the top fashion retailer with Zara as its flagship brand. Financial Times described her role as ‘embedded academic’ at the company.

Professor Simón is the author of numerous academic papers and books on different aspects of Talent Management, development and measurement. As of January 2014 she is the Academic Director of the IEBrown EXMBA Joint Degree program.

Gayle Allard has been a professor of Managerial Economics for IE Business School since 2001. She is a native of California, although she has lived and worked in Europe for 25 years. She studied at the University of California, Davis (PhD in Economics), Johns Hopkins University (Master in International Affairs) and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Spanish language and literature). Her research has centered on labor markets, in particular the position of youth and immigrants in Europe and how labor-market rigidities affect unemployment. More recently she has moved into development issues, particularly in Africa and in relation to China. She leads a group of IE MBA students on a volunteer and research trip to Ethiopia each summer. Gayle appears regularly in leading international media as a commentator on today's key economic problems.

Gayle has taught a course on Coursera (Understanding Economic Policymaking) to about 30,000 students, and has authored numerous interactive exercises and games, along with an e-textbook on macroeconomic policymaking.