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Leadership and People Management

Nurturing Team Creativity: Lessons From the Movies

IESE's Kandarp Mehta studies the creative process of movie making -- from the conception of an idea to how individuals go about expressing it in a team. Understanding how roles evolve during the creative process, he says, can help to foster greater innovation in teams.

Information Technologies

E-Bidding: Time to Modernize Public Tendering

Pin, José R.; Yera, T.; Susaeta, L.; Gato, P.; Puga, J.

As public sector institutions around the world face severe budgetary constraints, maybe it’s time they modernized how they put out public projects to competitive tender. A research project by the José Felipe Bertrán Chair of Governance and Leadership in Public Administration at IESE, in collaboration with Vortal, found that using the Internet for competitive tenders could generate annual savings of up to 2.5 billion euros in Spain’s public spending alone.

 

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Finance

Reconciling Stability and Competition in the Banking Sector

Vives, Xavier

The current banking crisis has prompted a rethink of the role of competition and the market structure in the industry. In his latest paper, IESE Prof. Xavier Vives examines the tensions that exist between competition and financial stability, and calls for a regulatory framework that meets the needs of the banking system.

 

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Information Technologies

ICT Solutions for an Aging Population

Dávila, Antonio; Ikonen, V.; Gheno, I.; Leikas, J.; et al.

Innovation and Change

How to Spot Innovation When You See It

Quintane, E.; Casselman, R.M.; Reiche, B. Sebastian; Nylund, P.A.

Economics

Comparing German and Spanish Labor Markets

Olsen, Morten

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Finance

Restoring Confidence in Banks

Antonio Argandoña

IESE’s Antonio Argandoña calls for a global discussion on financial rules and regulations, an issue that was just addressed at the 2012 Davos World Economic Forum.

 

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Economics

Clarifying Spanish vs. German Labor Costs

Morten Olsen

Morten Olsen’s recent video on German and Spanish labor unit costs generated a lot of feedback. In his latest blog post he responds to viewers’ comments.

 

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