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What It Takes to Be a Digital Leader

Sieber, Sandra; Káganer, Evgeny; Zamora López, Javier

Executives in their 40s or 50s will never be Digital Natives -- those who have grown up with technology and have never known anything else. While we cannot change the age we were born into, we can control our literacy of today's digital culture. IESE professors offer winning tips to help today's leaders step over the digital divide, so that technology becomes a source of innovation rather than alienation.

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Finance

International Experts Put a Price on the Expropriation of YPF

Fernández López, 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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Leadership and People Management

Are You a Global Leader?

Reiche, B. Sebastian; Canals Margalef, Jordi; Sanchez-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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Leadership and People Management

Give Peace a Chance

Lukaszewski, James E.

Thousands of Spanish flights were cancelled in February and March 2013 as Iberia went on strike in protest over plans to cut its workforce. In this article from IESE Insight magazine, James E. Lukaszewski says that how managers behave and communicate during a crisis like this will play a powerful role in breaking the destructive paradigm of labor negotiations.

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Economics

Women in Leadership: Achievements and Challenges

Lazarus, Shelly; Francis, Patricia

In commemoration of International Women's Day on March 8, we present these IESE interviews with top women leaders in which they touch on topics of importance and relevance to women today.

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