While estimates for the global water industry vary and there are different ways to define market segments, the industry provides a life giving substance which the UN has ...

A hundred startup deals – the milestone that IESE’s Business Angel Network will shortly reach – can pan out into almost as many different outcomes: a multiplicity of investor recipes, unforeseen business situations, investment trends, hot sector waves, or be subject to entrepreneurs’ idiosyncrasies.   So if you are a novel investor and don’t want…

The article, “Corporatism, not capitalism is to blame for inequality,” by Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel in Economics, appeared in the July 24, 2014 Financial Times. For Phelps, the term corporatism refers to the values of an egalitarian, progressive society that at the same time encumbers innovation. He discussed his views on corporatism in an…

This week I met a group of great women business leaders from West Africa. African women are a powerful driving force. At the same time, their social recognition is not always on a par with that force. I find this somewhat paradoxical. African women have an important role to play on every level: some women are…