Knowledge and Communication
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
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
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
Leadership and People Management
Kimio Kase, Ignacio Urrutia
Strategy
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