Gonzalo Freixes is a senior lecturer in the accounting area and is currently the Associate Dean of the Executive MBA and Fully Employed MBA programs, as wells as overseeing the Global Immersion programs for all three UCLA Anderson MBA programs. Mr. Freixes also serves as faculty director for the Applied Management Research Program for the full-time MBA Program. He holds a doctorate in jurisprudence from Loyola Law School and a master’s in business taxation from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Freixes teaches business law, international business law, business ethics, corporate and individual taxation, and real estate law & taxation in the MBA Program and in the undergraduate accounting minor program. He has lectured in Brazil, Spain, France, Holland, Argentina, South Africa, Belgium and Chile on international business & tax subjects. Previously, he taught international business law and business law at California State University, Northridge.

Mr. Freixes also directs the Price Center’s UCLA Summer Entrepreneurship Institute for undergraduate students, where he also teaches a course in business ethics and corporate governance. He frequently lectures in the subjects of taxation, corporate governance, business ethics, international business law, and trial advocacy.

In 2011, Mr. Freixes received the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award from the UCLA Anderson faculty and in 2006, he received the Fully Employed MBA class Outstanding Teacher Award. He is the faculty advisor and coach for the UCLA Mock Trial program. UCLA won the national mock trial championship in 2004, 2005, and 2011. He also served as a writer and consultant for the pilot of a Fox TV reality series, The Partner.

Mr. Freixes currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Executive MBA Council and was Chair of the Board in 2012. He was an elected official with the Newhall School Board of Trustees (serving two years as its president) and also served on the State Bar of California’s Judicial Nominees Commission for three years, where he evaluated the California governor’s judicial nominees for the Supreme, Appellate, Superior and Municipal Courts.

Education

J.D. Law, 1979, Loyola Law School
M.A. Business Taxation, 2008, USC

Interests

Business law, taxation, business ethics, governance, international law and taxation, international trade, Latin America, law, political and legal strategy, start-up companies

Dr. Filipe Caro joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2005. His main research interests are related to decisions made under uncertainty with a strong emphasis on practical applications. In his PhD dissertation at MIT, he developed analytical models with demand learning for the dynamic assortment problem faced by fast-fashion retailers. This led to an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish apparel retailer Zara that made him a Franz Edelman Laureate in 2009. On the theoretical side, his work on product and price competition with satiation effects won the first prize in the 2010 INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper competition.

Some of his current research projects include carbon allocation in supply chains; coordination of pricing and inventory decisions; forecasting; and exploration versus exploitation problems.

Prior to receiving his PhD, Professor Caro worked as an instructor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Chile. He taught courses in optimization, dynamic programming and stochastic processes and also worked on research projects involving natural resources, mostly in the forestry and copper industries. He continues to collaborate on a permanent basis with his colleagues in Chile.

At UCLA Anderson, Professor Caro teaches the MBA core course on operations and technology management and doctoral level courses on stochastic models in operations management. In 2007, he was awarded the George Robbins Assistant Professor Award that distinguishes excellence in teaching at the UCLA Anderson School.

Recognitions

2014 ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources.

2013 Eric and “E” Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award.

2013 ecch Production & Operations Management Award and New Case Writer Award.

2012 EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Finalist

2012 MSOM Meritorious Service Award

2010 MSOM Meritorious Service Award

2010 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, First Prize

2010 Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award, Finalist

2009 Franz Edelman Laureate

2008 Deloitte Consulting Award for Management Field Study Achievement

2007 Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award

Education

Ph.D. in operations management, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ind. Eng. In industrial engineering, (Profesional Title) 1999, University of Chile
B.Sc. in industrial engineering, 1998, University of Chile

Interests

Retailing, supply chain management, bandit problems, approximate dynamic programming, natural resources