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Cryptocurrencies can play the role of safe haven asset in the face of the collapse of money and the blocking of bank accounts due to sanctions on Russia.

En estos últimos meses, y a raíz de la reforma que traerá la ley de medidas de eficiencia procesal del servicio público de Justicia, la mediación y las formas adecuadas de gestión de conflictos vuelve a estar en la agenda política.

To manage the disagreements, in the transformational change processes that the family company needs in Catalonia, the mediating space is the most appropriate.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine proceeds with ruthless logic. There is no doubt that Russia's goal is to annex the entire country.

The reform of the pension system is necessary to make it sustainable given the demographic situation of the aging population.

The Triodos Chair in Sustainable Finance at UPF Barcelona School of Management announces the Award for the best Final Master's Project that addresses the topic of Sustainable Finance with the aim of promoting and giving them visibility.

Directed by Javier Wilhelm and Maria Munné, the Chair aims to respond to the needs of the local world in the implementation of policies to promote coexistence

Gender quotas are without a doubt one of the most controversial topics in the equality realm. Truth is, when quotas are applied in organizations where there is no real commitment to equality, it is women who end up paying the price. Nia Plamenova, lecturer in the Business & Management Strategy Dept., sheds light on the debate. 

Women are involved in more than 80% of purchasing decisions. It is not surprising that they are the target audience of many marketing and communication campaigns, although they are often spoken to from a male perspective. Cristina Aced, expert in Corporate and Digital Communication, analyses the strategies of brands to approach female audiences.

Women continue to be under-represented in management bodies, even in Spain's benchmark stock market index. Eighty per cent of listed companies do not comply with gender equality requirements and six of the 35 companies do not achieve even 20 per cent female presence on boards of directors. Erola Palau Pinyana, researcher in the Operations, Technology and Science Department, analyses the data and notes the poor performance since March 2021.

Artificial Intelligence can be an ally in the fight for gender equality, but it needs to be trained. Through machine learning, algorithms learn whatever we want them to, but something that seems completely harmless can result in mass discrimination if the examples with which it has been trained present some kind of bias. Ana Freire, Director of the Operations, Technology and Science Dept., show some examples.

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 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. 

Only 4.7% of women are entrepreneurs in Spain, and 6.3% in Europe. This reality means that women drive only 20% of start-ups. The data show that entrepreneurship is also far from gender equality. Susana Domingo, Director of the Academic Area of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, explains som of the reasons for this disparity. 

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