> 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…
Success Stories
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…
The Bank Business Model in the Post Covid-19 World
> Return to the #85 Newsletter The IESE Banking Initiative has published, together with the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) its second report on the future of banking, a joint IESE–Citi initiative that was launched in October 2018. This year’s report, titled “The Bank Business Model in the Post Covid-19 World”, was prepared by a team of four leading international scholars in banking and finance led by Prof. Xavier…