IESE Insight - Relevant Business Knowledge

KNOWLEDGE AREAS
Accounting and Control Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Governance Decision Analysis Economics Entrepreneurship Finance Information Technologies Innovation and Change Knowledge and Communication Leadership and People Management Marketing Service and Operations Management Strategy
DOCUMENT TYPES
Books Cases Technical Notes Research Papers Studies and Reports Articles and Opinion Knowledge Exchange Videos and Podcasts

Top Story

Finance

The new real estate paradigm: more than just location

Vergara, Carles; Gutés, Joan

Location, location, location: that's been the real estate mantra for ages. But according to a new book by Carles Vergara and Joan Gutés, timing and marketability increasingly count, too. And that requires new skills on the part of investors and managers to analyze and value property in this new context.

Service and Operations Management

Big spenders? Public infrastructure doesn't have to be a resource drain

Calvo, Eduard; Cui, Ruomeng; Serpa, Juan Camilo
Public infrastructure projects are notorious for going over their allotted time and budget. IESE's Eduard Calvo describes how this can best be avoided.

Finance

Don't feed the zombies: a key lesson from the European debt crisis

Acharya, Viral V.; Eisert, Tim; Eufinger, Christian; Hirsch, Christian
Zombie lending has prolonged the pain of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, especially in Italy, where economic woes continue. New research links an effort to save the euro in 2012 to more zombie lending -- and points to what could be done differently.