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Amy Shuen: How Web 2.0 Can Help Your Business Do More with Less

Sandra Sieber, Amy Shuen

Silicon Valley expert and bestselling author Amy Shuen suggests how budget-constrained managers can harness the power of Web 2.0 to multiply the effects of their existing networks and resources faster and more powerfully than ever before. The enterprise of the 21st century is going to look very much like a Web 2.0 community, she says, and executives need to learn how to manage the important social, business and industry transformation that is occurring now. (Video available)

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Economics

Toyoo Gyohten: The Responsibility for Recovery Lies in the Hands of Business People

Alfredo Pastor, Toyoo Gyohten

Toyoo Gyohten, president of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs, says we did not act soon enough to avert the current crisis, and that CEOs must take seriously their leadership responsibilities to put the corporate sector right again. Drawing on valuable lessons learned from the Japanese crisis of the ’90s, Gyohten says leaders must “go through a period of reflection and probably self-condemnation” but ultimately remain optimistic, because eventually “the night will end.” (Video available)

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Economics

The Post-Crisis World: Executives and Educators Point the Way Forward

IESE Insight

How to get out of the current crisis and prepare for the future? Economics professors Pedro Videla, Antonio Argandoña and Xavier Vives, together with an eminent panel of entrepreneurs, called for a spirit of “realistic optimism” to restore business competitiveness, as more than 500 executives gathered at IESE Business School, Barcelona, for a special session on “Creating the Company of 2020.”

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Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Research Excellence Awards 2008

IESE Insight

The IESE Alumni Association has presented its Research Excellence Awards for 2008 to IESE professors Josep Maria Rosanas, Pankaj Ghemawat and Pedro Nueno in the following categories respectively:
- Best academic article published in a top international journal
- Best book as measured by business and international impact
- Development of a new course or program teaching material

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Finance

Finance for the Poorest: Everyone Wins

IESE Insight

Financial services have not been designed for those in society who are the poorest. No matter which country we refer to, even in very developed countries like the United States, citizens with fewer resources often encounter difficulties in accessing banking products. This situation benefits neither poor people nor industry. IESE Prof. Javier Santomá and researcher Francesc Prior are well aware of this problem after analyzing the banking services offered in countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The authors arrive at two conclusions: poor people can be excellent customers for financial services, while at the same time playing a key role in the development of a country.

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