Dr. Polakova is a marketing professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de Mexico, teaching the courses: Consumer Analysis, Marketing of Services, International Market Analysis and International Marketing Project.
Dr. Polakova worked as a professor at the Department of Administration and Public Accounting of the Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Santa Fe, Mexico City, where she taught the Consumer Behavior in the Bachelor of Business Administration.
She also taught at the summer program at ITESO Guadalajara.
During the period 1997 – 2003, Dr. Polakova worked in the commercial section of the Embassy of Argentina in Prague, where she facilitated commercial contacts between Argentine and Czech companies, organized trade missions from Argentina to the Czech Republic and wrote economic analysis reports for the Embassy.