Dadun Open Access Repository

> Return to the #90 Newsletter IESE has joined Dadun, the University of Navarra’s Open Access repository. Its main objective is to enlarge the impact and reach of IESE’s research output while also digitally preserving all the documents it houses. All members of IESE Business School, including professors, research staff and students, are welcome to use Dadun to archive and share their works as long as they have rights to do…

En las manos de Dios

> Return to the #89 Newsletter “These pages are not meant in any way to offer a study or even a theological analysis of the internal deliberations of Josemaría Escrivá during the last moments of his life on Earth. They are simply personal reflections that I feel compelled to make, as a gesture of gratitude to the Lord for allowing me to spend so many years in the close presence of…

The New Ideal Worker

> Return to the #88 Newsletter Going beyond the classic notion of the “ideal worker” and rethinking what companies actually need from their employees is the focus of the book edited by IESE professors Mireia Las Heras and Nuria Chinchilla, The New Ideal Worker: Organizations Between Work-Life Balance, Gender and Leadership. Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are…

Managing Academic Identity

> Return to the #87 Newsletter An Academic Identifier campaign has just been launched at IESE to promote the use of ORCID and other unique identifiers for researchers and academics, to increase the discoverability of their work. Using author identifiers, such as ORCID, ResearcherID, ScopusID or Google Scholar offers several benefits: -It reduces author ambiguity. -It simplifies and facilitates the accreditation and evaluation of research activity for grant applications. -It boosts…

Academ Research & Faculty Database

> Return to the #86 Newsletter The Research and Faculty Division has launched Academ, an advanced tool for faculty and research data management. Here are some of the advantages the new application offers: It brings together information about professors from diferent programs and areas. It feeds the IESE webs and intranet as the sole source of information about professors. It allows professors and researchers to enter all relevant publication and activity…