IESE Insight - Relevant Business Knowledge

KNOWLEDGE AREAS
Accounting and Control Business Ethics and CSR Corporate Governance Decision Analysis Economics Entrepreneurship Finance Information Technologies Innovation and Change Knowledge and Communication Leadership and People Management Marketing Service and Operations Management Strategy
DOCUMENT TYPES
Research Papers Cases Articles and Opinion Knowledge Exchange Technical Notes Books Studies and Reports Videos and Podcasts

Top Story

Innovation and Change

Patently underrepresented: Why humankind needs more female inventors

Rembrand Koning; Sampsa Samila; John-Paul Ferguson

New research in Science finds that patents filed by female inventors are more likely to focus on women's health, but that relatively few women are filing patents. The paper points to untapped opportunities for innovation.

Economics

Remembering Robert Mundell: a pathbreaking giant

Pedro Videla
The Nobel Prize-winning economist, Robert Mundell (1932-2021), passed away on Easter Day, April 4, 2021. Professor Pedro Videla eulogizes the man known as the "father of the euro" as well as one of the founders of the field of open economy macroeconomics.

Service and Operations Management

Managing supply chains in a world that is no longer flat

Philip Moscoso
Deglobalization and digitalization were gathering force when COVID-19 confirmed what many companies already suspected: Supply chains need to undergo a fundamental transformation. Here's how to make supply chains more agile and resilient.