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Rocha e Oliveira, Paulo; García Pont, Carlos; Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Agulles, Remei; Sachon, Marc; Fidler, Devin; Gorbis, Marina
The growth of "big data" has been declared one of the top business trends to watch in 2013. Far from looming on the horizon, however, it's already here, demanding that managers take a long, hard look at themselves and their organizations to see if they're ready. IESE professors and researchers suggest some ways for managers to assess their readiness for this and other major shifts ahead.
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Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Agulles, Remei
More than half of all corporate acquisitions fail. However, the multinational services company, ISS, has managed to become a leader in the areas in which it operates, thanks to its policy of acquisitions in the new countries or sectors that it takes on. IESE’s Julia Prats and Remei Agulles explain the keys to its success.
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Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Agulles, Remei
While it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs need business competencies like industry analysis, negotiating skills and resource management, other competencies such as interpersonal skills and self-leadership are all too often overlooked. Yet such competencies play a vital role in entrepreneurship - indeed, they are a prerequisite for mobilizing the other capabilities and putting them to work in the various contexts in which entrepreneurship takes place. The authors debunk the notion of the entrepreneur as a natural-born genius with one-of-a-kind gifts. Instead, they propose a proper framework for classifying entrepreneurial competencies, which they say can be learned and developed through specific techniques and habits.
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