This post is the result of a collaboration with Manuel Alverez Feijoo, a friend and lawyer in the important law-firm Uría Menéndez. What we discuss below is also the topic of many lectures Manuel delivers within my business ethics and compliance courses in IESE business school. I believe that two main broad considerations can be…

We want our leaders to be reliable in their decision making and have depth in character. However, we know that our educational and professional training programmes are geared primarily towards developing what Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (author of ‘Lonely Man of Faith’) described as our Adam 1 side. This is one based on individualism, achievements, skills…

Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris accord on climate change appears to be due to a calculated bet that his narrow electoral base will allow him to continue after 2018.

Now that Donald Trump has pulled out of the Paris climate deal, what hope is there for addressing the more than critical issue of climate change? As discussed in one of my previous blog posts on the topic, I believe we shouldn’t despair, especially to the extent that moving towards clean energy makes sense for…