News

The financial and technological sectors have a gender diversity problem. Women are under-represented in management positions, and even less so in founding positions. However, in the fintech sector, the female presence is slightly higher than in traditional fields. Why? Director of Finance, Accounting & Controlling, Luz Parrondo, talks about it. 

Up to 428 companies have left Lleida in the last six years, a figure that accounts for 3.2% of the total companies in the territory, according to the Survey on the relocation of companies from the Lleida counties, commissioned at the University of Lleida (UdL) and the UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM), with the Board of Economic Promotion.

The UPF Barcelona School of Management alumni, Neus Ballús, wins the best film Gaudí Award 2022.

Rebecca Ferreri, Operations Planning Specialist at Ferrero, is Master of Science in International Business alumni at UPF Barcelona School of Management.

La UPF Barcelona School of Management ha reduit un 20% el consum d’energia elèctrica, aigua i emisions durant el mes de febrer amb la Marató de l’Energia, en consonància amb els valors i objectius de la seva missió de lluitar pel benestar planetari.

The Catalan Association of Accounting and Management (ACCID) and the UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) have published Measuring and managing the 'social impact of organizations (2021), the 32nd issue of the Journal of Accounting and Management, which explains the conceptual basis of social impact and compiles practical applications.

The professor at the UPF Barcelona School of Management, Xavier Brun, explains the economic consequences of the Russian attack on Ukraine, such as rising commodity or energy prices

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is undoubtedly the most significant war event in Europe since the end of the Second World War.

While supply chains are still recovering from the so-called container crisis, another major event is looming that will have a major impact: the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In an article published in Expansión, the Director of the Postgraduate in Total Supply Chain Management, Oriol Montanyà, analyses the impact that the war will have on sectors such as food, energy and technology. 

The European Union's new regulations on sustainable investment threaten the financing of the military industry. Commission advisers recommend hanging the "socially unsustainable" label on the defense sector.

The Government approves the report of the Preliminary Draft Law on the Administrative Procedure and Legal Regime of the Public Administrations of Catalonia

The UPF management school  and the Chamber reach an agreement for the internationalization of companies and students

The technological revolution has enabled the creation of many jobs, although the prevailing feeling is that it is destroying them. However, it is a creative destruction. The key to this technology-based job creation is education, according to the Director of the Technology Academic Area of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, Ana Freire. 

In Spain for many decades most mortgages were contracted at a variable rate.  At the end of 2021 this situation is even, 50.2% of mortgages were variable rate and 49.8% fixed rate, a phenomenon that has developed mainly in the period 2016-2021 due to the attractiveness of fixed interest rates in very low magnitudes.  

Meta (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) made it to the headlines when it announced it might have to pull out some of its “most significant products and services” from Europe because of mounting pressure from EU regulators to avoid the transfer of European users’ data to datacenters in the US.