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Paths to Keep Wealth in Family Hands
Roure Alomar, Juan; Segurado Llorente, Juan LuisArticle ART-2596-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipSince the onset of the global financial crisis, there has been a surge of interest among family businesses in the activities of family offices -- special entities designed to manage and administer a family's portfolio of investments, while also making sure that future wealth-creation activities happen in sustainable ways for generations to come. With the combined wealth of the 50 largest family offices representing nearly $1 trillion, family busi...Starting at €8.20
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Pequeñas grandes lecciones de las empresas familiares
Miller, Danny; Le Breton-Miller, IsabelleArticle ART-2713Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, StrategyLas pymes carecen de la liquidez, economías de escala y alcance de las grandes corporaciones, por lo que la planificación a muy largo plazo puede parecer un lujo. Pero no tienen por qué renunciar a la longevidad. Los autores han analizado pymes de Norteamérica, Europa y Corea del Sur, muchas de ellas familiares, y concluyen que las de mayor éxito se guían por cuatro principios (continuidad, comunidad, conexiones y control) que han sabido converti...Starting at €8.20
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Del director de cumplimiento normativo al de integridad
Aznar, Enrique; Vaccaro, AntoninoArticle ART-2790Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl cumplimiento normativo es más importante que nunca para la empresa. Pero el peso de esta carga debe repartirse por toda la organización, no puede recaer exclusivamente en el responsable de cumplimiento (chief compliance officer). El CEO y el consejo de administración deben ser los principales abanderados de la integridad. Para abordar los principales retos en esta materia, los autores proponen transformar la figura del director de cumpl...Starting at €8.20
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Make Way for the Chief Integrity Officer
Aznar, Enrique; Vaccaro, AntoninoArticle ART-2790-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementToday, corporate compliance is more important than ever. However, compliance officers cannot be expected to carry the whole weight of corporate responsibility on their shoulders. The authors discuss the main compliance challenges faced by managers today. To address those challenges, they propose the creation of a new senior executive profile: the Chief Integrity Officer. This person would support the CEO and the board in shaping the corporate cul...Starting at €8.20
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Navigating the Realities of Emerging Markets
Kleinhempel, MatthiasArticle ART-2791-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementAll corporate compliance programs share a common feature: to ensure that the company obeys the law and that all organizational members behave ethically. However, multinational companies operating in a country like Mexico, for example, face issues very different from those of Germany -- a reality that many codes of conduct fail to recognize. The author's research on compliance programs in the emerging economies of Latin America reveals the special...Starting at €8.20
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Untapping Innovation
IESE InsightArticle ART-2795-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeWhy do some innovations take off, while others languish? "Things cannot happen before their time," cautions Igal Aisenberg, a dairy farmer turned agricultural businessman who worked for Netafim, maker of drip irrigation systems. In this article he discusses the conflux of conditions that leads to the adoption of disruptive technology, and he underscores the importance of a business having social ends.Starting at €8.20
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Risk Oversight: What Every Director Should Know
Ormazabal, GaizkaArticle ART-2818-EAccounting and Control, Corporate Governance, StrategyThe public and political perception that excessive risk-taking was to blame for the global financial crisis has led to a number of legislative and regulatory actions concerning the role of the board in risk oversight. This article discusses the main factors driving the pressure on boards to oversee corporate risk and the potential consequences of this emphasis on risk oversight. The author describes how companies are responding to the higher dema...Starting at €8.20
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10 Trends for the Board of 2020
Nueno, PedroArticle ART-2849-ECorporate GovernanceThe onward march of globalization, internationalization, digitalization and regulation have made corporate governance an increasingly complex affair, demanding that boards live up to the expectations of today and tomorrow. Especially in key areas such as strategic oversight and risk supervision, the board's remit requires raised levels of competence as well as ethical and responsible behavior. Distilling years of experience on the boards of vario...Starting at €8.20
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Cómo le afectará la automatización de su empresa
Pastor, Alfredo; Mercadal Dupree, BartoloméArticle ART-2918Economics, Leadership and People Management¿Le quitará un robot su empleo? Aunque la sustitución por máquinas es algo que ha preocupado a los trabajadores desde la Revolución Industrial, los cambios provocados por la computarización, la digitalización y la robotización se perciben como una amenaza más real que nunca. Un estudio señala que el 47% de los 400 millones de empleos que hay en Estados Unidos son de alto riesgo. Este artículo resume la última investigación sobre la materia con el...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Fear-free Organization
IESE InsightArticle ART-2924-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementPsychologist Dr. Paul Brown says we need to design organizations around the way our brains really work. Using insights from neuroscience, he suggests how to stimulate joy instead of fear at work.Starting at €8.20