Professor Aguilera teaches courses on international corporate governance, sustainability and ESG, and global strategy to undergraduate, graduate (MBAs and Master in Human Resource Management, Master in Accountancy, Master in Finance and Juris Doctor), and executive education programs.
Her courses have a strong analytical and international focus. Most of all, she is interested in preparing students and active practitioners for the challenges of the real global business world. Aguilera has written several teaching cases to support her pedagogical approach.
She also teaches doctoral courses on: “Institutions, Markets and Organizations” and “The Craft of Publishing in A journals.” The goal of both courses is to generate and position research ideas for high quality research as well as develop rigorous research designs targeted towards top tier peer reviewed journals.
Global Strategy
The course intends to demonstrate that decisions affecting the international expansion of the firm are neither obvious nor totally determined by the technological or economic forces generally associated with globalization. Ruth seeks to illustrate with theoretical articles and detailed case studies that the internationalization of the firm is a sequential decision-making process operating at the country, industry, corporate, business, and subsidiary levels of analysis. Firms manage knowledge accumulation and transfer as they grow international through a mixture of planning and trial-and-error. She would like students to experience in the classroom the most transcendental decisions that multinational firms face in the course of conducting business across borders, and particularly in emerging markets. The course is unique in that it presents and explains the unexpected ways in which international competition unfolds over time and across countries.
Executive Teaching
International Corporate Governance and Strategic Thinking
This course aims to introduce participants to key strategic tools in corporate governance, and use them to navigate the different economic, legal, social and political contexts across advanced industrial and emerging economies.
Prepare participants to transition to board service from executive functions.
Discuss the competitive advantage that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) can bring to your board and your organization.
Equip participants with key concepts in ESG Strategies and Metrics.
Conduct Board evaluations.
And ultimately, link governance decisions with strategic thinking!
An Introduction to Corporate Governance
Who Will Guard the Guardians?: International Corporate Governance
Technical Note: Globalization, Globaloney, Semi-Globalization, and the Multinational Enterprise
What Happened When India Mandated Gender Diversity on Boards
When to say yes to your first board of directors (and your second and subsequent ones)
Teaching Materials
A visiting researcher & scholar
Courses Taught
Northeastern University
International Business (Undergraduate)
Strategy, Online MBA, Spring 2023
Global Strategy (MBAs)
International Corporate Governance (MBAs)
Strategic Corporate Governance (Doctoral)
The Art of Publishing (Doctoral)
Effective Board of Directors (Executive program)
National University of Singapore
Strategic Global Management (MBAs, undergraduates)
Family Business (Executive program)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Firms, Markets and Globalization (PhD)
International Corporate Governance (Master in Accountancy and Finance)
Doing Business Globally (MBA and Business Undergraduates)
Multinational Management (MBA and Business Undergraduates)
Comparative Employment Systems (Master in Human Resource Management)
Global Strategy (Executive MBA)
Other Courses
Diversity and Inclusion in Boards.
What do Boards need to know about ESG?
Strategic Decisions within the Board of Directors.
Corporate Governance in Family Firms. The Push towards Professionalization.
Governance in Non-Profit Organizations. What Works?
Otros Cursos
Diversidad e Inclusion en los Consejos de Administración.
¿Qué deben saber los Consejos de Administración sobre el llamado ESG?
Decisiones estratégicas en el Consejo de Administración.
El Gobierno Corporativo en las Empresas Familiares. El Impulso hacia la Profesionalización.
La Gobernanza en las Organizaciones Sin Ánimo de Lucro. ¿Qué funciona?
Boston Corporate Governance Community
The Boston Corporate Governance Workshop gathers scholars from the greater Boston area to discuss current research in corporate governance. The workshop is intended to share work-in progress from different disciplinary areas (accounting, finance, law, management, politics, sociology, etc.) so that we can cross-polianite and develop stronger academic ties.
This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Emerging Markets.