Africa Present and Future
As a part of my learning trip, I arrived yesterday to Accra, Ghana where I will be for one week. Travelling from Nairobi to Accra would have been as easy as travelling from Barcelona (where I was last week). But that's not the case for most of intra-Africa business travel. There are very few flight…
Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Last week I led a discussion among public managers on the ethics of their job, during a session of a public leadership program at IESE. I want to share with you the preliminaries of our conversation and the questions that finally came up. First of all, the owner of the public institutions is the people…
Africa Present and Future
Last week I attended the annual conference of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). It was hosted by Strathmore Business School here in Nairobi. I had the opportunity to talk about IESE's Africa Initiative. Some of the participants already knew about it, but others were not familiar with how IESE contributes educating African managers. The context…
Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
The most heavily indebted governments have always resorted to the same strategy: inflation. Suppose you owe 100 euros that you need to repay in one year at an interest rate of 3%. When the time comes, if inflation is 5%, you will repay 103 euros with a purchasing power of only 98 euros. The lender…
