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Date: 19/11/2009
Area(s): Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Document type: Interview
The 2009 conference has offered a challenging exploration of an issue that has vital importance today to business and all of its key stakeholders: the current financial crisis.
Furthermote, this year’s Colloquium has focused on the governance of the firm in the context of new global governance challenges. EABIS and IESE also have particular interest ...
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Date: 17/11/2009
Area(s): Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Leadership and People Management
Document type: Interview
A growing body of psychological research has focused on concepts of well-being, life satisfaction and workaholism. In his book, IESE Prof. Steven Poelmans considers how the research in this field has evolved, and he analyzes some of the key factors related to workplace psychological health.
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Date: 17/11/2009
Area(s): Service and Operations Management
Document type: Interview
Ordering two clothing collections a year is so last season. The latest trend in the sector is the “fast fashion” model, used by companies such as Zara or H&M. IESE Professor Victor Martínez de Albéniz highlights how companies can use assortment rotation to increase consumer spending and gain competitive advantage.
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Date: 05/10/2009
Area(s): Finance
Document type: Interview
As investors everywhere lose money to the financial crisis, many are wondering whether large catastrophic market swings, known as “black swans,” could ever be predicted with any degree of accuracy. IESE Prof. Javier Estrada considers the impact of outliers in emerging markets and finds that they can have a massive impact on the long-term performance ...
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Date: 18/09/2009
Area(s): Leadership and People Management
Document type: Interview
¿Qué significa que un CEO fracase? ¿Quién lo determina? ¿Se debe únicamente a resultados económicos? A partir del análisis de un gran número de investigaciones, el profesor del IESE Guido Stein se centra en los factores de fracaso más habituales, para intentar aclarar una cuestión tan difusa como son las dificultades en la carrera profesional del CEO. ...
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Date: 14/09/2009
Area(s): Strategy
Document type: Interview
Peter Sutherland had planned to retire as chairman of BP in 2008, but the search for a successor has taken longer than anticipated, so he has stayed on. He insisted, however, that this would be his last AGM. Despite a tumultuous year, Sutherland reinforced BP’s commitment to being a leading provider of energy. He reiterated BP’s firm commitment to ...
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Date: 30/07/2009
Area(s): Entrepreneurship
Document type: Interview
For young start-ups looking to secure funding, VC funds are not the sole provider of capital to get their venture off the ground, but rather, institutional investors are often the first step, along with a host of other intermediary agents. Alexander Groh, a visiting professor at IESE, takes a closer look at the criteria used by these institutional ...
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Date: 07/07/2009
Area(s): Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Leadership and People Management
Document type: Interview
In July 2009, IESE hosted the Third International Conference of Work and Family on the theme of "Harmonizing Work, Family and Personal Life in Times of Crisis." To find out how individuals, families and organizations were coping with the current socio-economic context, we put two key questions to conference participants.
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Date: 02/07/2009
Area(s): Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Document type: Interview
The business journalist Matthew Bishop, speaking at the Doing Good and Doing Well conference held at IESE Barcelona, says we’re witnessing a transitional moment in history, as significant for this generation as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the future of the global economy depends on business leaders who identify with social progress and embrace ...
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Date: 01/07/2009
Area(s): Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Document type: Interview
For the second year running, IESE hosted a workshop dedicated to sharing new ideas that may lead to a revised understanding of management fundamentals from a humanistic perspective. IESE Prof. Josep Rosanas highlights some of the main theories that were discussed at the 2009 conference.
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