Technical Notes

Leadership and People Management

Objective: Making It to CEO

José Ramón Pin, Guido Stein

Everyone wants to make it to the top in their chosen career, but not everybody achieves that goal. This article takes an in-depth look at the different stages an executive must go through to become a CEO or to earn whatever other job title is used to describe the person at the apex of a business organization.

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Leadership and People Management

The Challenge of International Assignments

Sebastian Reiche, Anne-Wil Harzing

The international staffing policies of multinationals are shifting away from “sending a guy out from head office” to secondments to the parent country and on-site training of local nationals. In “Management of International Staff,” Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing examine the effectiveness of ethnocentric, polycentric and geocentric policies as a means of resource management and information sharing.

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Leadership and People Management

Management for the immediate future

Guido Stein

How should the continuous changes faced by organizations be dealt with? According to IESE Prof. Guido Stein, the right combination of short-term financial efficiency and long-term economic efficiency is necessary. Although they are not irreconcilable objectives, they do differ, and as such require a separate and balanced treatment. The current financial and economic crisis provides the perfect opportunity for institutions to carry this out.

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Finance

Keys to Avoiding Another Subprime Crisis

Jorge Soley

The subprime crisis started with the mortgages that go by the same name, but have ended up affecting the financial system in general and, consequently, investors and private parties. What strategies can help financial institutions overcome this crisis? IESE Prof. Jorge Soley sifts through these in his technical note "Aspectos financieros de la crisis subprime" ("Financial Aspects of the Subprime Crisis").

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Corporate Governance

Balanced Relationships an Asset for the Family Company

Joan de Dou, Luis Carlos Vallejo

Like other families, those owning family companies can be disengaged or enmeshed, chaotic or rigid, barely or highly communicative. These characteristics affect not only relationships between family members, but also the company's performance. To determine how balanced an enterprising family is, the technical note "Aspectos relacionales en la familia empresaria" ("Relational Aspects in the Enterprising Family") offers a framework for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of family business relationships.

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