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…

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…