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  Finance
What Will It Take to Repair Finance?
IESE Insight
This issue of IESE Insight makes important contributions to the debate about how we can avoid the mistakes of the crisis and usher in a new, more sustainable age of capitalism, where human development becomes the No. 1 priority again. We also feature tips for making innovation happen in your everyday business from the new book, Innovation as Usual, by IESE Prof. Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg.

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  Leadership and People Management
Are You a Global Leader?
Reiche, Sebastian; Canals, Jordi; Sánchez-Runde, Carlos J.; Ghemawat, Pankaj
Are today's executives as global in their leadership as the business world is in which they operate? Professors from IESE Business School shed light on what it takes to be a truly global leader, and they stress the importance of developing the talent required to successfully navigate today's challenges.
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  Finance
International Experts Put a Price on the Expropriation of YPF
Fernández, Pablo
One year since Argentina took control of the oil company YPF from the Spanish firm, Repsol, IESE Prof. Pablo Fernandez asked 22,000 international experts to give their best estimate of the compensation that Repsol should receive as a result of the expropriation: $10.3 billion was the average, according to the nearly 2,000 responses received.
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  Strategy
The Unstoppable Mexican Wave
Servitje, Daniel
Grupo Bimbo is unusual among Latin American multinationals in that it is competing both in emerging markets and north of the border in the United States. "Where we can add value and make a profitable business for our shareholders is by focusing on knowing our customers deeper than our competitors do," Grupo Bimbo CEO Daniel Servitje tells IESE Prof. Pankaj Ghemawat in this interview at IESE's Global Alumni Reunion in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Does a Good Cause Justify an Ethically Questionable Act?
del Potro, Eloy; Stein, Guido; Pin, José R.; Vázquez-Dodero, Juan Carlos
What would you do if your refusal to engage in bribery threatened the viability of your business project? Is extortion ever justifiable if it's for a good cause? This award-winning IESE case study explores the real-life dilemma a European company faced when trying to bring electricity to a central African country.
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  Strategy
What's Yours Is Mine: Tips to Foster Psychological Ownership
Ceja, Lucía; Tàpies, Josep
Much research attests to the phenomenon of "psychological ownership" -- the degree to which employees feel personally connected and identify with their organizations. New research by IESE's Family-Owned Business Chair explores some of the ways in which such feelings can be fostered, given that one of the keys to the perpetuation of family businesses is the commitment level of future generations.
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  Information Technologies
The Human Cloud Brings Talent to Your Company
Káganer, Evgeny
Crowdsourcing is not yet a major trend in the business world partly because of the difficulty in putting the infrastructures in place. Prof. Evgeny Káganer discusses how the human cloud can help bypass this problem.
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IESE's Miguel Antón suggests a novel investment strategy, which exploits the connectedness of certain stocks through common active mutual fund ownership. Understanding how these ownership-based connections work can yield between 6 and 7 percent per year in alpha, as he explains in this video.
 
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Releasing Innovation: A Challenge for Leaders
Miller, Paddy
 
A Portrait of Today's HR Manager
Quintanilla, Javier; Poal, G.; Gutiérrez, S.; Sánchez-Runde, Carlos J.
 
Bridging the Global Leadership Gap
Canals, Jordi
 
Remuneration Tips for a More Motivated Workforce
Maella, Pablo
 
Are You Ready for Corporate Social Networks?
Sieber, Sandra
 
Banking 2.0: From Selling to Customized Services
Virgili, Juan A.; Káganer, Evgeny
 
Soft Drink Industry Refreshes Spanish Economy
Campos, Rolf; Gómez Bengoechea, Gonzalo
 
 
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