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How to Monetize in a Digital Landscape
How do you monetize digital? This is the million-dollar question for the billion-dollar media and entertainment industry. And it has no easy answers. Members of IESE US Advisory Board Dr. William T....
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Africa: From Hopeless Continent to Rising Star
In just one decade, The Economist magazine has gone from referring to Africa as “the hopeless continent” to a “rising star.” And the forecast is getting even better. While speaking at a conference at...
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The US Economy, a Dickensian “best and worst of times”
"If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold." These were the opening words of Eric Weber, chairing a debate between several members of IESE's US Advisory Council. They convened to present MBA students...
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How a Battery Firm Became a Carmaker
The automotive industry is a good example of an industry in which emerging economies have strengthened their role as global leaders, and nowhere is this truer than in China. In their research paper,...
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Nuria Chinchilla at the Women's Committee of the UN
IESE professor Nuria Chinchilla yesterday took part in a conference that was part of the UN Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) official program. During the conference, the success of the UN's...
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Maintaining Profit Levels in Times of Crisis
When the CEO of Logista, Luis Egido looks back on the effect the crisis had on the logistics sector he recalls that "all of the news was negative". Manufacturers were focused on the short term and on...
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Family Business Leaders Share Their Lessons in Life
How do you go about the very complicated business of taking a family that has built a significant enterprise and transferring the ownership and management to the new generation? Leonard A. Lauder,...
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New Program to Bridge Strategy and Operational Execution
If the business climate in a complex and competitive world defies forecasts, one way to tame its uncertainty is to join forces. IESE and Wharton have done just that in the design of a new two-week...
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Competencies for Positive Impact
Making a positive impact at work – and in the world – is especially important during these trying times. To build effective teams, increase employee satisfaction and get more done require certain...
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Free Riders: Your Worst Enemy May Be Inside Your Company
Freeriders are likea virus, able to destroy the values of a firm by their capacity of contagion through a lack of professionalism, a focus on their own interests instead of pursuing the company’s...
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Spanish Reforms Not up to the Mark
The measures taken to clean up the financial system and pension reform are the most important and positive reforms undertaken in Spain since the start of the crisis. On the downside are the lack of...
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Rewriting the Agenda for Corporate Growth
From April 3-4, 2014, global executives and academics from the world’s top business schools will gather for the IESE Global Leadership Conference to outline how leadership development should adapt in...
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Value Investing: Time to Invest with Patience
Common sense and patience were the watchwords at the conference on value investing hosted by the Executive MBA’s Finance Club on Thursday, March 27. Two of Europe’s top fund managers, Francisco García...
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Barcelona, European Capital of Innovation
Eduard Martín Lineros, Head of Innovation, the Knowledge Society and ICT Arquitecture at the City Council of Barcelona, and IESE professor Joaquim Vilà last Friday presented an innovation plan for the...
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Falling into Step in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
For companies and business schools alike, innovation and entrepreneurship are taking center stage. Scholars and business leaders came together at IESE Business School to share their experiences in...
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Pushing Companies Out of Their Comfort Zone
"Innovation is useless unless it matters. And it matters when it differentiates you in the eyes of all your stakeholders," stated Bruno di Leo, IBM Global VP Sales and Distribution, to an audience of...
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Tokyo, London and New York, the smartest cities
The winner's podium of the world's "smartest" cities is occupied by Tokyo, London and New York, respectively, according to the IESE Cities in Motion Index (ICIM), supervised by IESE's J.E. Ricart and...
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Changing Times Across the Board
In the current climate of uncertainty and new challenges for business, the role of boards of directors is more important than ever in ensuring that both companies and the economy are competitive. This...
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Young Brazilian Executives Explore Europe
Thirty young executives on the Executive MBA program in São Paulo are spending this week on the Barcelona campus in one of the program’s international modules. Students will have the opportunity to get...
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Make Online Reviews Work for You
"One of the worst experiences of my life." What would you do if a customer posted such a comment online about your business product or service? Ignore it? Admit fault? Challenge it as unfair and...
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