Prof. Gomes had been an Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa from 2003 to 2010, where he taught in the Masters, MBA and executive education programs, while also serving in the Lisbon MBA program (in partnership with the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Sloan School of Management in Boston, USA), and in the bio-engineering program, Nova’s program jointly conducted with MIT’s School of Engineering. Prof. Gomes had also been a visiting scholar at MIT in Boston and at Shanghai University, China, where he teaches in the MBA program since 2007. Besides NORDAKADEMIE, he has standing visiting appointments with IAE Lyon in France. In 2011, he accepted an offer to join MIT’s prestigious faculty in the US as a full-time faculty member.
Prof. Gomes teaches courses in operations management, project management and innovation management. His research has been published in several international journals, namely Managerial and Decision Economics, International Journal of Service Industry Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management and published several book chapters. His research has focused on the economics of organizing the development of software products in extended settings, i.e., when design is shared by several technology partners. He has received research grants from FCT- Portuguese Science Foundation, Egide and Boston University School of Management. More recently he has been studying how companies make their products and processes more sustainable.
Before initiating his doctorate Prof. Gomes worked for banking institutions in Portugal, first as a financial analyst, then as a product manager. More recently he has been a project consultant in software development and design of healthcare services. He has developed significant consulting work with the Portuguese Health Ministry on the redesign of the National Primary Care service.
He holds a PhD in Operations and Technology Management (2003) from Boston University, and a Licenciatura degree in management with specialization in Finance from University of Porto in Portugal.
