> Return to the #95 Newsletter Diego Arias recently defended his dissertation, “The Logic of Gift – Making Sense in Business and Management“. The dissertation aims to study how gift-giving is integrated within management and its implications for business. For this purpose, Diego first built a morally-based taxonomy of three categories and eight types of gift-giving from Aquinas’ moral object of the action. Second, he studied how the gift and exchange…
Success Stories
Volunteering at the Library
> Return to the #94 Newsletter For the first time, the Library has a volunteer. Elizabeth Deshi, an experienced Nigerian librarian who is partner of an MBA23 candidate, has been volunteering at the library since mid-April. She is helping out 4 hours a day three times a week. The cooperation not only lets her do what she loves but also gives her the opportunity to find out how a European business…
2021 Employment Report
> Return to the #93 Newsletter The IESE Career development Center (CDC) has achieved a difficult goal in uncertain times. Ninety-four percent of the MBA class of 2021 landed jobs within three months of graduation. We want to highlight this success, which is thanks primarily to the CDC team’s rapid adaption to the new context and the great work it has done with more than 400 top companies looking for talent….
La empresa, una comunidad de personas
> Return to the #92 Newsletter An excellent reflection on the humanistic approach to business management is presented in IESE Prof. Antonio Argandoña’s new book, “La empresa, una comunidad de personas. Cultura empresarial para un tiempo nuevo”. Analyzing fundamental issues in the field of organizations such as ethics and company culture, corporate social responsibility, the meaning of work, sustainability and the mission, vision and purposes of a company, the author guides…
Open Access Transformative Agreements
> Return to the #91 Newsletter Thanks to the Transformative Agreements (TA) the University of Navarra has struck with some publishers, the University’s researchers who sign as corresponding authors can publish their works in open access, at no charge, in most journals. Current transformative agreements (TA) have been reached with the following publishers: Cambridge UP, Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. If you wish to publish as a corresponding author in a journal…