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Patrycja Riera, IE Business School, explores how leadership development should prioritize character development.

The Power of Character in Leadership

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Patrycja Riera, IE Business School, explores how leadership development should prioritize character development.

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Sustainable Branding Needs a CFO Lens. To turn sustainability into brand value, marketers must think like CFOs – linking green initiatives to risk, return, and long-term financial performance, writes Gabriela Salinas, Professor of Marketing at IE Business Schooland Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Sustainable Branding Needs a CFO Lens

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Prof. Gabriela Salinas, IE Business School, writes that to turn sustainability into brand value, marketers must think like CFOs.

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Prof. Lisa Bevill, IE University, shows that happiness thrives when communities foster connection, purpose, and sustainability.

Happiness Is Where Nature, Community, and Purpose Meet

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Prioritizing well-being is a collective need. From urban design to social trust, research shows that happiness thrives when communities foster connection, purpose, and sustainability, writes Prof. Lisa Bevill, Academic Director of the Center for Health & Well-being at IE University.

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Laura Sofía Del Castillo, IE Business School, explores why big businesses struggle to go sustainable – and how they can succeed.

The Green Illusion: Why big businesses struggle to go sustainable – and how they can succeed

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Laura Sofía Del Castillo, IE Business School, explores why big businesses struggle to go sustainable – and how they can succeed.

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Generative AI risks short-circuiting the learning process and creating incompetent experts writes Prof. Kiron Ravindran at IE Business School.

Is AI Creating Incompetent Experts?

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Generative AI risks short-circuiting the learning process and creating incompetent experts writes Prof. Kiron Ravindran at IE Business School.

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DECARBONIZATION ON A BUDGET: MAXIMIZING BENEFITS, MINIMIZING COSTS. The decarbonization divide is widening – while 90% of businesses are SMBs, less than 1% have set science-based targets. As Sridhar Maheshwar, EMBA participant at IE Business School reveals, this isn't just an environmental crisis but a catastrophic competitive blindspot. The companies bridging this gap today – through AI-driven efficiency and circular innovation – will own tomorrow's markets.

Decarbonization on a Budget: Maximizing benefits, minimizing costs

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Sridhar Maheshwar, EMBA at IE Business School, looks at how companies can decarbonization on a budget and decrease the gap.

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Will you Dare? The Journey of Purpose. Prof. Concépcion Galdón, Vice-Dean for Business with Purpose at IE Business School, and Director of the IE Foundation's Center for Social Innovation & Sustainability, shares her insights into DARE, a framework that helps individuals and organizations not invent purpose, but uncover what they already know—about their unique role in the world and how they contribute to it.

Will you Dare? The Journey of Purpose

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Prof. Concepcion Galdon, IEBS, shares her insights into DARE, a framework that helps employees and organizations realize their purpose.

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Knocking on Our Doors: Leading employees today and tomorrow in the new AI era. Leadership remains a key enabler of the AI transformation of companies. Maria Caruso, Winner of the 2024 CoBS Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, contends that the transformative journey begins with people and existing human practices, even before the technology.

Knocking on Our Doors: Leading employees today and tomorrow in the new AI era

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Leadership remains a key enabler of the AI transformation of companies. Maria Caruso, Winner of the 2024 CoBS Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, contends that the transformative journey begins with people and existing human practices, even before the technology.

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Intergenerational Collaboration: Better together. As four generations work together for the first time, what are the frictions that can arise and how can we overcome them? Professors Celia de Anca and Concepción Galdón, IE Business School, draw on their research to answer.

Intergenerational Collaboration: Better together

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As four generations work together for the first time, what are the frictions that can arise and how can we overcome them? Professors Celia de Anca and Concepción Galdón, IE […]

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The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth. Quynh Nguyen, Runner Up in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world, highlighting the inability for supply to keep up with demand.

The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth

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Quynh Nguyen, IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world and its effect on supply and demand.

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