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“Miami device”
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The Economist.com reports on the launch of IESE’s Senior Executive Program – Miami. The online version of the British magazine highlights that this is the first program that IESE will run in the US after the opening of the school’s New York Office. The news item also mentions IESE’s 50th Anniversary celebration this year.
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“MBA Fair Spring 2008”
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The Economist.com launched its online MBA fair last month. Among the activities in this virtual fair, participants could hear interviews with prominent international professors as well as other experts on the MBA programme and the business schools world. Prof. Pedro Nueno was one of the professors interviewed. Prof. Nueno explained how European business schools had managed to create a good model of business education and so could share their experience with newer institutions in Asia. Among these lines, he also explained how European schools could also benefit from Asian input. Prof. Nueno also revises the current economic situation of China and its business model and describes how this model might impact the world economy and how it could develop. He also shares his views on the importance of business education in today's business and political context.
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“Buyout firms appreciate sexagenarian’s value” by James Mawson
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Financial News, a global newswire focused on investment banking and fund management, carries a piece based on the results of the research paper developed by IESE Professors Heinrich Lienchestein and Julia Prats and IESE director Alex Herrera and the Boston Consulting Group. This study questions why investors are still attracted by private equity funds even though private their average risk-adjusted returns do not outperform the public capital markets funds’ returns. The answer, according to the investigation, is that, whilst the majority of funds invested in public companies fade towards the market average, best private – equity funds don’t, and consistently outperform public capital markets.
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"Acumen, Baring among PE cos betting big on north India"
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The Economic Times, a relevant financial daily based in India, included a piece examining how a number of world-wide private equity firms are choosing India as one of the best countries to place their investments. The article also underscored the findings of this report which also explains how India is in fact one of the best bets for PE firms.
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An article written by Prof. Xavier Vives on how the current subprime crisis could affect banks and the whole banking system at an international level has been extensively published in many renowned publications around the world. Among them:
“Banking on securities”, included in the British daily, The Guardian.
http://ipress.iese.edu/0804/0424TheGuardian.pdf
“Does subprime crisis spell the end of banks”, published by one of the most relevant newspapers in Asia, the South China Morning Post, based in Hong Kong.
http://ipress.iese.edu/0804/0425SCMP.pdf
“The end of banks?”, also featured in one of Asia’s most popular publications, the Macau Daily Times. http://ipress.iese.edu/0804/0426MacauDaily.pdf
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“Global Market an illusion in a semi-globalized world, expert says” by Miodrag Soric
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A number of publications have interviewed Prof. Pankaj Ghemawat based on the findings of his latest book Redefining Global Strategy. Some of the publications are the following:
Deutsche Welle, a relevant daily from Germany, asks Prof. Ghemawat about his thoughts on the extent at which he thinks the world is globalized. Prof. Ghemawat, who defends that only 10% of the total world investment is done by foreign direct investment, explains that world is today only semi-globalized.
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“There is a lot of headroom for Indian IT” by Satish John and Vivek Kaul
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DNA, one of the most widely read information websites in India, features two pieces based on two interviews with Prof. Ghmeawat.
The first one describes a few of Prof. Ghemawat’s opinions on what should a company do when trying to go abroad in order to be successful and not falling into the “illusion”, as he says, that the world is flat. He highlights that the basic idea that managers should keep in mind is that borders still matter and that cultural differences should be taken seriously.
http://ipress.iese.edu/0804/0421DNA2.pdf
“A Mittal secret from the ‘rust buckets’ of Kazakhstan”
The other piece explains one of Prof. Ghemawat research studies in which he and a group students analyzed the company Mittal finding out that the company’s main profits came from their steel industry in Kazakhstan.
http://ipress.iese.edu/0804/04221DNA.pdf
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“IESE Business School’s Forum”
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Chinanews, a popular website from China, includes an article on IESE’s 50th Anniversary Celebration in Shanghai last month. The article, illustrated with pictures of the event, reports on the sessions delivered by Dean Canals, Prof. Pedro Nueno and Prof. Pankaj Ghemawat.
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“Wettstreit um Schanghais Musterschüler” (Shanghai’s contest for students) by Bärbel Schwertfeger
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Financial Times Deutschland carries an article on the growing competition for students among international business schools. Prof. Fernando Peñalva is quoted on the subject.
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“Invertir dans les marches pauvres: quels bénéfices?” (Invest in the poor markets: with what benefits?)
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IndiceRH.com, a French website focused on human resources, reports on Prof. Christian Seelos’ research Corporate Strategy and Market Creation in Context of Deep Poverty. This paper, which was recently awarded the Gold prize at the IFC-FT essay competition, observes how the private sector can create markets and transform lives. Prof. Seelos discusses how companies can access important resources in poor regions that save capital, remove risk and build legitimacy.
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“Portugal cresce menos que Espanha por causa do desequilibrio das contas públicas” (Portugal is growing less than Spain due to imbalances in the country’s public accounts) by Sandra Ribeiro
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Vida Económica, a relevant financial publication from Portugal, features an in-depth interview with Prof. Toribio on the current situation of the Portuguese and the Spanish economies. Prof. Toribio talks about the economic and financial relations between the two countries, the importance of their economies for the rest of the EU zone. He also looks at the possible impact of the Spanish economy on an international level and at the problems faced by Portugal in the following years.
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