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Knowledge and Communication

Telecom in Spain Not in Line With E.U. Average

Spain needs to stimulate competition in the telecommunications sector to bring rates and user levels in line with the European average. It must also introduce appropriate regulation to promote the expansion of next-generation networks. A new report by IESE’s Ángel Luis Lopez and Sandra Jódar Rosell contributes to the debate over which measures would be most effective.

Leadership and People Management

The Factors Behind the Failure Rate of CEOs

Guido Stein, Javier Capapé

What does it mean for a CEO to fail? Who is responsible? Is it purely about financial results? Drawing on a large selection of prior research, IESE Prof. Guido Stein and research assistant Javier Capapé map the myriad factors behind CEO failures in an attempt to clarify the ever more complicated twists and turns of a modern-day CEO’s career path.

 

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Strategy

Not Just in It for the Money

Brian T. McCann, Govert Vroom

You would think that the goals of family-owned businesses and other owner-managed enterprises would be perfectly aligned with profit maximization. However, in their paper, Brian T. McCann and Govert Vroom find that the competitive nature of professionally managed firms implies that their interests are better aligned with profit maximization. This, the authors claim, is due to the fact that owner-managers pursue non-pecuniary objectives in addition to profit maximization.

 

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Finance

The Unpredictability of Black Swans in Emerging Markets

Leadership and People Management

The Juande Method of Managing Change

Kimio Kase, Ignacio Urrutia

Strategy

Creating Winning Partnerships

IESE Insight

Opinion

Information Technologies

Does Windows 7 matter?

Sieber, Sandra

The new operating system comes to the market just 3 years after the launch of the much announced Windows Vista, which never fulfilled the expectations of the market, nor that of Microsoft.

 

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Decision Analysis

Appreciating Paradoxes

Ward, John L.

Dilemmas: problems to solve or a source of long-term success?

 

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