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Professor Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program at IE
Business School in Spain. This is a program specially designed for small and medium sized
companies that want to develop an exponential business model to scale. He is also the
Academic Director of the Global Scaleup Program, a joint course offered by IE with the
American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business and the Director of
the "Scaling Up For Growth" Programme at William J. Clinton Leadership Institute in
Queens University, Belfast.
In the International MBA, he teaches an award winning elective called "Scaling Your
Startup", in the Master in Management (MIM) he teaches a similar elective called “Scaleup
Yourself!” and in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) he teaches “The Scaleup
Mindset”. In addition, he teaches a number of online programs for IE Executive Education.
These include “Scaleup Fundamentals” for the Global Online and the Executive MBA
Programs and Scale, “Scaleups & Scaleups” in the IE Brown EMBA, a joint MBA that IE
runs with Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2022, he began teaching an
exchange course at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York.
In 1998, Prof Haslam was on the founding Team of Marrakech, a Dublin based e-
procurement company that raised over seventy five million dollars in Venture Capital and
scaled to over two hundred and fifty people. He was the co-founder and Chairman of Hot
Hotels, the first company from Spain to be accelerated by the Techstars program in the
USA (Boston, Summer 2015). Joe was born in Ireland. He has a B.Comm and an MSc from
University College Cork in Ireland. In addition, he has an MBA from IE Business School in
Spain and has completed an Executive Education Program on Emerging Technologies
from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley College of
Engineering. He has lived in Spain for over twenty years.
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