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Cuidado con las trampas de su mente
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447Decision AnalysisEn los negocios, como en el resto de las facetas de la vida, la incertidumbre acecha detrás de cada esquina. ¿Qué pasará en el futuro? ¿Podemos estar preparados para lo imprevisto? ¿Cuál es la decisión correcta en momentos así? Los seres humanos hemos desarrollado una serie de mecansimos inconscientes que ayudan a sobrellevar esa inseguridad. Son útiles para no sentirnos abrumados e impiden que nos paralicemos, pero también pueden inhibir nuestra...Starting at €8.20
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Mind Your Mind Traps
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447-EDecision AnalysisIn business, as in other areas of life, uncertainty lurks around every corner. What does the future hold? How can we prepare for the unexpected? What is the right decision at times like this? We humans have developed a repertoire of unconscious mechanisms to help us cope with insecurity. While these mechanisms may assuage feelings of helplessness and paralysis, they can also cloud our judgment. The authors explain how three such mind traps work: ...Starting at €8.20
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In Times of Trial
IESE InsightArticle ART-1541-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementShort-term gain, group-think and greed combined to create the perfect storm on various directorates, precipitating the collapse of numerous companies. Would such behavior have stood up in court? We ask jury consultant Edward P. Schwartz and IESE Prof. Paddy Miller what lessons from the courtroom could be applied to the boardroom to yield a better verdict. All rise!Starting at €8.20
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Cómo alinear los intereses del gobierno a largo plazo
Berrone, PascualArticle ART-1893Corporate GovernanceHasta el 93% de los CEO afirman que la sostenibilidad es esencial para el futuro de sus empresas, pero también admiten ¿lagunas en su implementación¿. Un factor de suma importancia para salvar esa brecha es el modelo de gobierno corporativo. Partiendo de varias investigaciones sobre empresas estadounidenses contaminantes, el autor muestra cómo las organizaciones pueden adaptar su modelo de gobierno corporativo en los tres niveles que lo conforman...Starting at €8.20
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Aligning Governance Interests for the Long Haul
Berrone, PascualArticle ART-1893-ECorporate GovernanceAs many as 93 percent of CEOs surveyed say sustainability is essential to their company¿s future success. At the same time, they recognize ¿an implementation gap in meeting their ambition to embed sustainability deep and wide within their organizations.¿ To bridge this gap, there is one factor of overriding importance: a firm¿s corporate governance model. In this article, the author draws on several pieces of research on U.S. firms in polluting i...Starting at €8.20
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Un gobierno corporativo a prueba de crisis
Pirson, Michael; Turnbull, ShannArticle ART-2129Corporate GovernanceLa crisis financiera ha empujado a muchas empresas a mejorar sus sistemas de gobierno. Pero son pocos los intentos que abordan el verdadero problema: nuestros paradigmas jerárquicos unidireccionales, enraizados en nociones transaccionales, unitarias y economicistas, deben reformularse a la luz de un modelo más humanista. Basándose en ejemplos como John Lewis Partnership y la corporación Mondragón, los autores abogan por la gobernanza en red, un...Starting at €8.20
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A New Approach to Fix Broken Governance
Pirson, Michael; Turnbull, ShannArticle ART-2129-ECorporate GovernanceMany attempts are being made to improve corporate governance in the wake of the financial crisis. But few seem to be tackling the real issue: that our top-down paradigms, rooted in transactional, unitary, economistic notions, need to be completely rewritten in favor of a more humanistic model. Citing examples such as the John Lewis Partnership and Mondragón Corporation, the authors propose the adoption of network governance, which they say would ...Starting at €8.20
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Las ventajas de dar voz y voto a los accionistas
Giné, MireiaArticle ART-2313Corporate Governance, FinanceA raíz de la crisis financiera, el activismo de los accionistas ha crecido en todo el mundo. Uno de los hitos de este movimiento es el voto consultivo sobre la remuneración de los directivos. Además de dar voz a los accionistas en las juntas generales, obliga a los consejos de administración a informar de sus paquetes salariales, cuando no a revisarlos por completo. De hecho, ha habido casos muy sonados de grandes bancos que han visto rechazados ...Starting at €8.20
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The Real Value of Say-on-Pay
Giné, MireiaArticle ART-2313-ECorporate Governance, FinanceIn light of the financial crisis, shareholder activism is growing around the globe, leading to Say-on-Pay policies, which give shareholders the opportunity to voice their opinions on executive pay, and put pressure on boards to justify and explain pay packages more clearly to shareholders, if not redesign them completely. In several high-profile cases, large companies have failed to obtain approval of pay packages for their CEOs due to such activ...Starting at €8.20
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Think You Have Power? Check Your Perceptions
Brion, SebastienArticle ART-2453-EDecision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementThough talk of power makes some people uncomfortable, there's no doubt that it is vitally important in organizational contexts to influence others, perform your job and attain goals. Drawing upon extensive research from the field of organizational behavior and psychology, the author identifies six steps to gain power -- meaning control over some valued resource upon which others depend -- and then use that power for good, or for "pro-social ends....Starting at €8.20