Professor Carlos García Pont is a member of IESE’s Marketing Department. He holds an MBA from IESE and a PhD in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work centers on the importance of alliances in understanding competitive strategy, the organizational needs of market-oriented organizations in industrial markets, and subsidiary strategy in global corporations….
A couple of Sundays ago I ran the 10k race Cursa de Sant Antoni. As I told you in my previous post, my goal was to make it in 36min, and I did! After two weeks of officially training for the marathon, I’m getting the feeling that these long runs are working. I’ve got my…
In just one week the IESE Women in Business Club is hosting the first ever Women in Leadership conference, Strides to Success. The inaugural conference brings in top executives from different industries and will be discussing the business issue every company is looking at: gender balance. With this year’s theme we are challenging our delegates to join…
My name is Luis Jover. I’m from Barcelona and, although I have had the chance of living in five different countries, I still feel most lucky to live here. I am married to a great woman named Elena and we have a wild baby daughter named Gabriela, as well as another one on the way….
Risk. Risk-management. Risk-aversion. Risk-tolerance. Inherent risks. Risk mitigation. Riskiness. Eliminating risk. I’ve certainly heard a lot about “risk” during my first term of the MBA. A year ago I was prayerfully considering what felt to me like the BIGGEST risk of my career. I had just been accepted to my top-choice MBA program – IESE….