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A well-prepared entrepreneur is worth his weight in gold
“One afternoon we decided to close the business. I think it was a good decision.” Sandro Bortesi started a business and failed. His Racing Masters, an entertainment center for professional pilots,...
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Professor Eduard Calvo One of the "Top 40 Under 40"
IESE Prof. Eduard Calvo has been chosen as one of the top 40 professors under 40 by the popular business school website Poets & Quants. The ranking “Top 40 Under 40″ recognizes these rising stars,...
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A Battle of MBA Minds
Last weekend, Chicago Booth Business School became the most recent winner of the IESE-Roland Berger International Case Competition. Since 1996 this meeting of MBA minds has been drawing students from...
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GEMBA: One Class, Two Cohorts
As the name of the program implies, the GEMBA is becoming more and more global: This week, it launches the Americas program from the New York Center, the first degree program offered from IESE’s...
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The Energy Bonanza
North America is experiencing an unconventional energy bonanza thanks to the foresight of various entrepreneurs who began developing the sector 15 years ago, IESE's 11th Energy Sector meeting heard....
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“It’s Principles, Not Rules that Matter"
Hans van der Noordaa overlooks the economic landscape from a unique vantage point: the Management Board of ING, one of the leading global financial institutions. Over the last three decades, he has...
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What Have we Learned Five Years After the Financial Crisis?
Five years after the economic crisis that shook the world economy in 2008, we have to ask ourselves what we have learnt, how much has actually changed and, above all, what has been done to repair the...
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Employment Growth Through Greater Flexibility
IESE professor Sandalio Gómez has emphasized the importance of part-time work as a tool for generating employment, insisting that business and union leaders need to implement changes to ensure more...
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Facebook Opts for WhatsApp Group Therapy
In acquiring WhatsApp for $19 billion, Facebook shows that it believes the action is in mobiles and in groups, which is one of the messaging service's strengths. The acquisition is perhaps Facebook's...
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Trust Yourself to Change the World
“Change happens because a few people decide to act”. With these words of Jo Confino, executive editor at The Guardian newspaper, opened this morning the 11th Doing Good and Doing Well conference, the...
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Leading With a Cool Head and a Warm Heart
In 2006, PepsiCo selected Indra K. Nooyi as the first female CEO in its half-century history. Today, she is in good company with Umran Beba, Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer in Asia,...
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The Triple Challenge to Save Healthcare
One of the priorities of advanced economies is the sustainability of the healthcare system. However, resources are limited and spending is too high; good management is therefore more important than...
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César Cernuda: “Every challenge is an opportunity”
As the Mobile World Congress 2014 got in full swing this week in Barcelona, Asia-Pacific Microsoft President Cesar Cernuda discussed the company’s new device and service focus with an audience of...
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Making Mobile the Universal Language
In 2008, NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest telecommunications company, made a $2.7 billion investment in Tata Teleservices, one of India’s leading telecom providers. To date, DoCoMo has invested $3.6...
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"We Cannot Limit People's Wish to Have a Better Life"
Seven years ago, BMW’s goal was to be a leading car manufacturer but now it aims to be a world leader in mobility. Strategists at BMW recognized that the changes the industry faces entail the biggest...
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Africa from Africa
Africa is making headlines around the world. IESE Prof. África Ariño has decided to find out what the buzz is all about for herself, taking a long journey from Lagos to Nairobi in what she describes as...
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"We need to achieve more with less”
Schneider Electric, with 140,000 employees in over 100 countries, is no stranger to transformation. From steel in the 19th century to electrical distribution and automation in the 20th century, to...
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Time to Make Big Data Profitable
“We’re sitting on a mountain of data that we’re not using”. This was the view taken by Javier Zamora, scientific collaborator on IT with IESE, on the current situation regarding the vast amount of...
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Stereotypes Can Kill Global Work
Working with colleagues from other countries is a fact of modern life. But working well with colleagues from other countries is not always easy. A study by IESE's Carlos Rodríguez-Lluesma and Paul M....
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