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The CMI philosophy defines all of our activity
Our commitment to excellence is fundamental to the success of CMI, an Institute that provides the latest advances in responsible management of companies and organizations.
Rafael García
Founder and President of CMI
After completing his studies in Madrid and Paris, he graduated as an industrial engineer specializing in industrial organization at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He subsequently completed an International Executive MBA at IESE.
Rafael has professional experience since 2000, most of it at the aeronautical multinational Airbus. He is a specialist in international contract negotiation, business management, and project management, having worked in various positions of responsibility in the Purchasing, Commercial, and Programs departments, managing clients, partners, and suppliers mainly in the Asia-Pacific region. His experiences and learning from Eastern cultures were the seed of an awakening toward a process of personal evolution that resulted in the founding of CMI.
He currently continues his scientific research activity with passion in conscious organizational leadership and corporate social responsibility as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization of the Higher Polytechnic School of the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Nilsa Mármol
Co-Founder of CMI
Licenciada en Administración de Empresas Summa cum Laude, por la Universidad Acción Pro Educación y Cultura (UNAPEC).
An entrepreneur by vocation, she founded her first company in 2006, which continues to operate and grow. She has experience in the international public sector as a process consultant with Inter-American Development Bank funds. She has experience in the private sector since 2003. Since 2010, she has been a manager and director of major accounts for several Spanish companies in the marketing, commercial events, and protocol sectors.
She currently develops research work in the field of responsible human management to maximize the development of people’s talent and their conscious administration in organizations.
The CMI Teaching Team
All Professors and Administration staff of the Institute work with a commitment to serve students and companies with excellence, providing the most advanced training programs in responsible organizational management for a positive economic, social, and environmental impact.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is an essential part of CMI’s activities. Its Professors work in several areas: research into the creation of organizations, advising startups, and supporting the entrepreneurship projects of students in the Responsible MBA Programs. With all this, CMI presents a unique ecosystem where an entrepreneur can find all the necessary resources to maximize their chances of success. All these projects share a common spirit: that of creating Responsible startups.
Natural, Social, and Economic Environment
For CMI, organizations develop within environments that influence them and are affected by them from a range of perspectives — environmental, sociological, economic, and others. Therefore, to exercise truly responsible leadership, it is essential to study the environment in depth with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. CMI’s researchers delve into the phenomena of the various sciences at play and their interrelations, sharing the latest innovations in these fields.
Sales and Marketing
The team of research professors in the Sales and Marketing Area develops innovative tools to understand, deploy, and drive these disciplines to the highest level.
Optimizing adaptation to a global and digital market, a conscious and integrative vision is offered that covers all the fundamental factors of this field to achieve the desired positive impact on the minds of customers and continued, sustainable success.
Finance
In the Strategy Area of CMI, new developments and theories are led, stemming from, among others, research into the evolution of corporate social responsibility and its impact on the strategic conception and implementation of organizations. CMI professors with extensive experience in this field help to clearly understand the significance and consequences in all areas of strategic management.
Operations
CMI works to develop innovations in Operations Management in order to achieve a positive impact on society and the environment, ensuring ecological and sustainable industrial and service models that harness the latest scientific and technological advances. CMI’s Operations professors bring a wide range of experience as specialists in this field.
They are at the forefront of expanding the frontiers of knowledge and conveying the state of the art across the different areas, sectors, and business models.
Human Management
CMI champions a major change in Personnel management: its evolution to Human Management. This stops considering people as a resource for the organization’s ends and recognizes their key importance and the true role they deserve as human beings. A completely respectful vision based on the latest advances in neuroscience, psychology, administration, and management.
Strategy
Entrepreneurship is an essential part of CMI’s activities. Its Professors work in several areas: research into the creation of organizations, advising startups, and supporting the entrepreneurship projects of students in the Responsible MBA Programs. With all this, CMI presents a unique ecosystem where an entrepreneur can find all the necessary resources to maximize their chances of success. All these projects share a common spirit: that of creating Responsible startups.
Quality
Aspiring to perfection and maximum quality in everything we do is an essential part of the CMI business school. This is why it is a cross-cutting aspect of all subjects in the curriculum. The faculty of the Quality Area focuses on all relevant aspects and innovations to achieve excellence in management systems, administration, certifications, standards, etc. In an environment such as Corporate Social Responsibility, CMI works to develop and transmit its own vision regarding Certification systems.
Digital Technologies
As a new institution born in the digital era, CMI has research professors who are passionate about the advantages our time offers for managing information and communication systems. In a context of Industry 4.0, social networks and increasing digitalisation across all fields, the faculty of the Digital Technology Area provides training that includes the latest tools and knowledge to manage digital systems and technologies with excellence. Para gestionar con excelencia los sistemas y tecnologías digitales.
Research, Development, and Innovation
CMI is a research, development, and innovation Institute. Therefore, it works to push the boundaries of knowledge and develop technologies and innovations in various fields, such as organizational management, production processes, social innovation, etc.
The CMI Faculty is, therefore, fundamentally composed of doctors or doctoral candidates in the various areas of specialization of the Institute. In the creation and management of organizations, CMI places special emphasis on the characteristics of research, development, and innovation.
Consequently, its programs include these fields with two objectives: to lay the foundations for managing an organization based on R+D+i, and for students to acquire the knowledge and skills that allow them to develop so they can undertake a Doctoral Study Program in the future. Therefore, the Responsible MBAs are also conceived as Research, Development, and Innovation Masters, with the curriculum including the completion of a research project.