Prof. Stjepan Orešković is an extremely successful businessman and scientist who believes that education and science are the foundation of success in both business and life. That is why his most recent big investment is in one of the most innovative business schools in Europe—the IEDC Bled School of Management.
And when it comes to business, Stjepan Orešković certainly has something to say. His company M+ Group has grown into a global player and is the second largest employer in Croatia with more than 11,000 people in 15 countries and operates in 62 world markets. Among the investors in M+ Group are Croatian pension and investment funds, and MidEuropa Partners, a leading investor in this part of Europe with their headquarters in London.
In addition to his duties as a tenured professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb, Prof. Orešković teaches and conducts research at the world’s most prestigious universities, from Harvard to the Sorbonne and Bocconi. He is the Principal Investigator of Pfizer’s Global Grand Project, and his works have been published by the world’s most important publishers such as Cambridge University Press and the British Medical Journal. The Lancet also cited his public health projects as an example of successful practices.
However, despite such an exceptional biography, his greatest pride is his family—his wife Manica and their three children. All three have followed his uncompromising philosophy of investing in knowledge and have graduated from the most prestigious American Ivy League colleges.
