The fourth formula is based on understanding that the leader is the embodiment of the team and the strength lies in him. For Gutiérrez-Rubí, another key is in the F1 team’s calculated ambition “that has managed the advertising and sponsorship to the limit.” He defines the sixth lesson as “speed as a collective attitude.” For the author, they found a way to form a team in three weeks, among other achievements. “Short and sweet outraces slow and steady.”
Gutiérrez-Rubí then praised Brawn GP for its capacity to challenge the norm. A new motor-racing team up against the classic teams it beats because of their collective rivalry. “A new power, decentralised, open and shared, based on merit and creation, blazes the trail in organisations and in all areas of activity.” For the author, “the hierarchy had never been so seriously questioned by freedom and intelligence. This is the definitive challenge: liberating innovation versus the privilege that normally determines the dominant position.” “If you think it, you won’t achieve it, but if you believe it, it’s possible,” reasoned the author when giving other examples of athletes such as Nadal.
Chaos is an opportunity because the “greats” usually adapt badly to chaos, according to Gutiérrez-Rubí. While Brawn was innovating, the rest of the motor-racing teams were discussing what to do. “The first moment of chaos is decisive in gaining an advantage,” he emphasised.
In the second to last lesson, the author linked the audacity of Brawn GP to buying Honda during a period of economic uncertainty. Lastly, Gutiérrez-Rubí highlighted the triumph of a job well-done due to the culture of hard work ingrained in the team. “The teams should be made of people who are talented and should transmit that talent through networks.” “No one cares how we’re organised, but how we work,” concluded the author to close the meeting.
]]>Throughout these 50 years, more than 57,000 students of 47 nationalities have studied at EAE. Some examples are Juan Antonio Samaranch, Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC); Jaime Gil Aluja, President of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy ) of Economics and Finance, and Luis Bassat, President of Bassat Ogilvy Iberia.
50 YEARS MAKING MANAGERS
EAE was founded in 1958, at a time when the industrialisation process had accelerated throughout Spain. This fact caused concern for business management training in certain Barcelona business groups under the management of Public Works and the Chamber of Commerce. In 2006, EAE became a part of the Grupo Planeta, the leading Spanish publishing and communication group with exclusively family-owned capital that produces cultural, educational, entertainment and news content for the Spanish and French-speaking markets. It is also a leader in the creation and publishing of management content. The connection with Grupo Planeta and its support have given EAE a privileged position and renown among the Spanish and international business schools.
Among EAE’s important milestones is when it became the first school of business in Spain to give a Master in Marketing Management and a Master in Human Resources Management. It was also the first Spanish business school to obtain the International Quality Certification ISO 9001 that allowed it to accredit and guarantee the high academic level of its programs and professors. In 2006 it was a pioneer in Spain in awarding the most number of Official University Masters adapted to the Bologna Process and the first international MBA program was developed between Madrid and New York. It is one of the most active business schools in international associations with a presence in Cladea, AACSB, EFMD, AEEDE and ForQ, among others.
]]>If this phenomenon is analysed in the autonomous communities, this tendency is repeated in every one with the exception of Ceuta and Melilla where the inverse occurs. Asturias presents a noteworthy case, where the difference between employment rates of both populations is 26 percentage points, that is to say, in Asturias, three out of every four are employed. Other communities that show a large difference are Aragon, Castile-La Mancha, Madrid, Galicia, Cantabria and Castile and León.
The study goes in-depth on the profile of the foreign population occupying Spain and emphasises several characteristics: One out of every five foreigners in Spain has a professional university education (20.5%) and 56% of the foreign population has an upper level of secondary school education or higher. Comparing the education of the foreign population with the education of the Spanish population, it can be said that “their levels of education are high and in line with the data from the national population,” González emphasised.
The work also highlights that impatriated workers from non-European Union countries could make up 20% of the foreigners with residency permits in Spain. Spain is also situated at the forefront of the most fiscally attractive countries for foreign executives.
]]>“The data corroborates a clear trend: postgraduate studies increasingly contribute to escaping long queues at the unemployment office. So, given that over the last few months finding employment has become even harder, one of the solutions for escaping the long unemployment queues might be to acquire the right training and education”, says Mario V. González, director of the Study. Two EAE students have collaborated in the study: André Piñero from the Executive MBA and Marta Santa Basilisa San Bruno from the Masters in Marketing Management.
The conclusions to be drawn from the research are as follows:
- The greater the level of education of the workforce, the greater their opportunities and the better their work conditions.
It is not only experts who coincide in pointing at specialised education and training applied to job positions as one of the determining factors in salary differences and especially personnel recruitment; statistics also show that unemployment rates among those that are less educated are significantly higher than among those that are more qualified.
- Postgraduate studies provide quantifiable and significant benefits to people's level of employability.
- The benefits provided by postgraduate studies are not exclusive to a given type of markets or economy, but instead are present in different countries and regions across the world.
The empirical evidence presented for Anglo-Saxon job markets (United States and United Kingdom), as well as for Latin America and Spain corroborates the importance of these benefits, even when the structural, economic and social differences between these countries and regions are clear and in certain cases notable. In other words, the benefits provided by a postgraduate degree in the employability of the workforce are solid in geographic, structural and socio-economic terms.
- The benefits provided by postgraduate studies are still present even in unfavourable financial conditions.
Especially in the case of Spain and Mexico, the differences in work opportunities between those holding a postgraduate degree and those without one are still significant and important, even in recent months when the adverse effects of the financial crisis have filtered through to the job markets. In the case of Spain, it is possible to appreciate and quantify the loss of employment suffered by those without postgraduate degrees in comparison to those who do hold such degrees.
- In Spain, the differences in the levels of employment and unemployment among the sector of population with basic university studies and the sector with postgraduate studies have been increasing over recent years.
The analysis of the evolution of quarterly employment and unemployment rates for the 2005-2008 period and the calculation of the underlying trend shows us that during last year, when financial conditions worsened, job opportunities for people with basic university studies deteriorated whereas opportunities for those with postgraduate degrees established themselves in this scenario and seem to have consolidated their place in the market.
]]>In its first appearance in the year 2006, EAE was not included within the hundred best companies, but was recognised as the fifth leading business school. In 2007 it reached position 86 and last year it occupied position 91 in the general ranking. This year it obtained the best results up to now, both in its general ranking and in the ranking by sector.
In the leaders section, David Dinwoodie, General Manager of EAE Business School, is listed as one of the hundred best reputed leaders, occupying position 73. It is the first time Dinwoodie has appeared in the ranking.
In global terms, for the second year running the textile company Inditex leads the ranking of the 100 best reputed companies, followed by Telefónica, El Corte Inglés, Santander, Repsol, 'la Caixa', Iberdrola, BBVA, Mercadona and Mapfre, included this year among the first 10 best positioned companies, after overtaking Acciona, now positioned at number 15.
The director of Merco, Justo Villafañe, pointed out that "the crisis is affecting the reputation of banks", and explained the good positioning achieved by some companies, stating that "reputation is a stable value" which takes "a great deal of work and a long time to achieve”.
To create the ranking, a survey was carried out between November and December 2008 on a total of 15,000 company managers, who chose the 100 companies from a list of 665. Then, five samples of experts comprising analysts, NGO leaders, union members, leaders of consumer organisations and opinion leaders assessed financial results, Corporate Social Responsibility, the quality of the companies' work and products.
]]>The conference will be attended by representatives of 20 different countries, all of which belong to the EFMD – the world's most prestigious association of managerial training centres. The Finnish delegation is the largest, with ten attendants from six Finnish business schools. It is followed closely by the British delegation, with nine representatives from eight business schools, and the Danish delegation. The attending business schools include the Helsinki School of Economics, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Applied Sciences of Switzerland and Oxford Brookes University. Spain's representatives will be from IESE Business School and EAE Business School.
Under the tag line The Role of Entrepreneurship Training for Tomorrow’s Society, managers will analyse the role of managerial training and its capacity for training entrepreneurs and managers of family businesses.
The Conference will be chaired by David Dinwoodie, General Manager of EAE Business School; the opening session will be led by Fernando Casado, managing director of the Instituto de la Empresa Familiar, and the first plenary meeting “Planning succession in family businesses” will be led by Joaquin Uriach, secretary general of Corporación Uriach.
On Thursday February 26 from 9 am, attendants will discuss issues such as the methods used in training entrepreneurs, training the next generation of owners / managers of family companies; entrepreneurial business education in European higher education and training social entrepreneurs.
David Dinwoodie, General Manager of EAE Business School has highlighted the importance of this meeting as it “provides the chance to discuss the training of family business people and entrepreneurs among researchers of the main European business schools in Barcelona, one of the world's capitals with the highest number of multinational century-old family companies and businesses”
The EFMD Entrepreneurship Conference has become the main annual European forum for the exchange of ideas related to business, innovation, small companies and family businesses. The EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) is an international organisation formed by more than 650 companies belonging to academia, the business sector, the public sector and the consultancy sector from 75 different countries. This international network, which includes more than 450 business schools, provides a single forum for information, research, contact network and debate on innovation and the practice of business management. Its aims include: acting as a bridge between the leaders of business schools and companies; creating and disseminating knowledge with regard to success stories and trends, and influencing international governments and NGOs through lawyers and pressure groups.
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