A Fondo

Distribution in Europe
Euro-shop Til You Drop

European firms have been highly successful in exporting their proprietary distribution models and formats all over the world. Distribution is one of the industries in which Europe leads the world, contributing important innovations

Executive summary
This article analyzes current realities and trends in the European distribution sector. The authors describe the environment of five important markets (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Spain), and three sectors in which Europe is playing a leading role globally (food, textiles and luxury goods).+info

Es Noticia en IESE

13th European MBA Tournament

IESE wins gold

June 6-8, more than 1,500 MBA students from 11 European business schools took part in the MBA Olympics. IESE has participated in this event since its inception 11 years ago, but until this year had failed to take the gold medal, in spite of coming very close

Over the last two years, LBS had just beaten IESE by the smallest of margins, but this year the cycle was broken and the nearly 160 MBA students participating finally achieved first place. “Third time lucky,” pronounced Julia Poncar (MBA 03). +info

Anselmo Rubiralta Center for Globalization and Strategy International Workshop

Creating Value through Global Strategy

Refocusing academic attention on the creation of value through global strategies was one of the main themes of this 1st International Workshop, held on June 15, 16 and 17 at IESE’s Barcelona campus. It was organized by Anselmo Rubiralta Center for Globalization and Strategy, and was attended by 40 academics from 11 countries

For more than a decade, research in the globalization field has tended to focus more on the organizational rather than the strategic challenges involved in this revolutionary phenomenon. In an international environment in which many companies express their dissatisfaction with the value created by their past global strategies, it would seem to be the right moment to return to strategic questions about value creation. This was the main aim of the conference, organized by Professors Joan E. Ricart (IESE), África Ariño (IESE) and Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business School).+info