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Nothing Is Impossible
The presidential election in Afghanistan on April 5, 2014, has been hailed as a success, and not just because voter turnout was up and election fraud was down, marking another milestone in the...
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Economic Freedom in the World: Is it Ethically Significant?
Using data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Economist intelligence Unit, among others, various indices attempt to measure the degree of economic freedom in a range of...
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Decoding the Silicon Valley DNA
"IESE Meets the Valley" took place for the third time this year during Easter week. The trek is organized by MBA students and was initiated by Jeroen Kemperman (MBA 2012), with the aim of giving...
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5 Trends that Will Shape the Future of Leadership Education
Business leaders and educators joined forces on April 3-4 at IESE Business School for a two-day Global Leadership Conference, tasked with rethinking how businesses should respond to the challenges of...
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Change Starts at the Top
Does the "teamness" of a company’s top management team (TMT) affect employee and organizational performance? Previous research indicates that a lack of TMT unity can have negative organizational...
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Problems of expatriation begin with the homecoming
Multinationals go through a lot of effort in order to ease an employee’s transition to a position in a foreign office. And they are often successful. But when the time comes to ‘repatriate’ those...
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Pedro Nueno Awarded for his Educational Work in China
Barcelona/Madrid, 29 April 2014. Pedro Nueno, IESE professor and president of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), has been awarded with the Outstanding Contribution Award from the...
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Where Do We Grow from Here?
Amazon’s 2010 acquisition of BuyVIP for €70 million ($96.5 million) in many ways fulfilled the cofounders’ ultimate ambition when they were just getting started. "We said ‘sell to Amazon’, but...
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Chinese Automotive Industry Study by IESE, CEIBS & CEDARS
April 10, 2014. Shanghai – IESE, CEIBS and CEDARS have joined forces to launch the research publication "The Chinese Automotive Industry in 2014."This is the second edition of the publication, and it...
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Who killed Hollywood?
Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2014 – The movie and television industries have experienced enormous change since Peter Bart became a part of the Hollywood movie scene back in the late 1960s. Peter Bart...
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Establish Ethical Leadership and Gain Social Capital
Does leaders’ behavior have any influence on the ethics of the company? Social learning theory states that employees learn standards of appropriate behavior by observing role models. IESE professor...
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Eight Lessons for Business in the Digital Era
The advent of the digital era has produced spectacular successes and colossal failures in the business world. Both of them provide lessons that must be learned, or guides to what does and does not...
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IESE Ranked 2nd in the World for Executive Education
IESE Business School ranks #2 worldwide in this year’s overall Financial Times Executive Education ranking published today. IESE also maintains its position as #3 in the world for Custom programs, for...
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Changing with the Times
Print is not dead, but with digitization newspapers face new and daunting challenges. In order to survive they will have to take steps towards responding to the ever more demanding customers, who want...
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Adaptability, a critical competence
Experiencing a number of different roles and working as an executive assistant in the early stage of one’s career will foster executives’ adaptability. Defined as the ability to work effectively in...
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IESE to Open a Campus in Munich
IESE will open a campus in Germany at the end of 2014. It will be located in one of Munich’s most iconic quarters and next to Bavaria’s Parliament houses. IESE’s new campus will be renovated before...
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The Benefits of Mindfulness
A recent post on the BBC website highlighted the growing prevalence of "mindfulness." A database search of British newspapers showed that media mentions of "mindfulness" have skyrocketed over the past...
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Who’s who in the Digital Economy?
Understanding exactly how a business fits into the e-commerce ecosystem is key to identifying the specific challenges it faces today and in the near future. It is also crucial to fully leveraging the...
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Social Innovation: Going for Two-Fold Profitability
First it up to the personal philanthropy of individual entrepreneurs. Then corporate social responsibility reached corporations, and social and environmental sustainability started taking root in their...
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A Passion for Sports Fuels Business and Social Change
Without a doubt, the passion for sports attracts massive media audiences and shapes a billion-dollar industry. But sports are also the focal point of a unique set of political and social forces.In...
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