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15 Febrero - 2022

Sport and sustainability: game on the line

Sport must be exemplary in its management and commit to practices based on sport ecology to mitigate some of the environmental consequences arising from its activity. The director of the Master in Sports Management, Xavier Moya, presents successful cases in which the combination of sustainability and sport has generated changes and contributed to the transformation of the world. 


15 Febrero - 2022

UPF Barcelona School of Management runs Start-UPFlama mentoring sessions

This Tuesday, UPF-BSM has organised the first Hackathon for Start-UPFlama in which nine of the twelve registered projects have benefited from mentoring sessions offered by the faculty of the School in areas such as sustainability, marketing, finance or human resources, among others. 


15 Febrero - 2022

"The wealth tax has disappeared from all EU countries except Spain"

45% of all wealth tax collection for the 2014-2019 period was paid by taxpayers residing in Catalonia. The finance and accounting professor at UPF Barcelona School of Management and tax expert, Carmen Jover, comments on these figures and analyzes the meaning of a tax that "disincentivizes the creation of wealth".


15 Febrero - 2022

New Space Economy, the opportunity for SMEs and startups in 2022

Every business will be a space business by 2030. A sentence that may seem exaggerated. Explanation? When you look at your smartphone, you are interacting with the space economy. Your phone's capabilities are derived from space technology and rely on a satellite connection for various communication and GPS functions.


9 Febrero - 2022

"The SDGs are going from being objectives to necessities"

Ana Tejedor is the winner of the award for the best Master's Thesis on Planetary Wellbeing with the documentary No sé nada de gaviotas and a graduate of the Master's Degree in Scientific Communication at UPF Barcelona School of Management.


8 Febrero - 2022

Reconsidering what training means

We have always heard people say that they have to be trained, and for this purpose there are organizations such as schools or universities that are dedicated to offering training processes. It is necessary, however, to pay attention to the language: precisely why do we use the word formation?


8 Febrero - 2022

Barcelona and its tourism dilemma

Tourism data in Barcelona have not yet recovered the levels of 2019. However, 3 out of 4 establishments are already open and the fairs to come, such as the Mobile World Congress. will receive up to 75,000 congress attendees who will leave in the city between 100 and 200 million euros. The Director of the Chair Future Scenarios of Retail, Tourism and Services, Josep Francesc Valls, analyzes the situation and the latest data.


8 Febrero - 2022

Metaverse as a business tool

Although the virtual world or metaverse is sometimes perceived as mere leisure pages where you can play, chat or simply waste time, there are different applications that support its great potential as a business development tool. This is evidenced by Luz Parrondo, Director of the Finance, Accounting and Control Department at UPF-BSM.


3 Febrero - 2022

"The EC considers gas and nuclear green energies to please France and Germany"

The European Commission (EC) has decided to include gas and nuclear energy as green energies within the taxonomy to point out to investors the activities that can be classified as sustainable or that contribute to reducing emissions.


2 Febrero - 2022

"To expand el Prat it is not necessary to destroy la Ricarda"

The expansion of the Barcelona airport, under discussion at the UPF Barcelona School of Management.


1 Febrero - 2022

Self-employed quota reform as an embryo of the shadow economy

With a 30% self-employed quota, 21% VAT and 15% advanced withholding of personal income tax, the self-employed will work to pay taxes, since the tax burden at the end of the quarter will be 60%.


1 Febrero - 2022

What is behind the price of antigen tests in Spain?

Until the price regulation, Spain has been one of the European countries with the highest price of antigen tests.


1 Febrero - 2022

And in the stock market, where is the inflation?

The great protagonist at the beginning of the year is none other than inflation. It is not surprising, the interannual rate was 5% in the Euro Zone, 6.5% in Spain or 5.3% in Germany.


28 Enero - 2022

UPF Barcelona School of Management celebrates the Chinese New Year

The China Global Strategy of UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) has celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Tiger with an event at the school.


28 Enero - 2022

Rehabilitation of buildings reduces the risk of social exclusion: the UPF-BSM organizes sustainable housing conferences

The UPF Barcelona School of Management signs with the Metropolitan House Foundation an agreement for the creation of the Dignified and Sustainable Housing Chair


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