África Ariño, Pinar Ozcan, Doug McPhee, Carsten Heckemüller
It may be more difficult than ever for companies to grow, but investors still expect it. So while credit is down and money’s too tight to mention, joint ventures are on the rise. Partnerships are popping up everywhere, with companies from Fiat to Gazprom collaborating with others. A new study on joint ventures conducted by IESE and KPMG looks at how and why firms team up, and advises the best way to go about it.
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Josep Tàpies
While it is sometimes true that family businesses do not survive past the first generation, and that most SMEs, in Spain at least, are family-run, it cannot be presumed that all family businesses are SMEs, nor that a family business is, by definition, shorter lived than a non-family one. A new book by IESE Prof. Josep Tàpies redresses these and other common myths.
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IESE Insight
"Dynamic duos" is the focus of the latest IESE Insight magazine, and so, appropriately, we introduce a winning pairing of our own: This quarter, together with the second issue, we launch an associated website, where you can either view the entire magazine, or pick and choose only those articles that interest you, read them, download them and print them off as you please. By using the same log-in details that you registered previously with IESE Insight, you'll be able to search content from the previous edition.
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