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Green consumers translate their commitment to planetary well-being into their purchasing habits and tend to be wellinformed consumers

UPF-BSM held the first edition of the Faculty Acknowledgement Day, which recognised Jaume Puig-Junoy, Distinguished Professor at UPF-BSM, as Faculty of the Year. In addition, five lecturers were awarded in different categories and the professional paths of three professors were highlighted. 

This recognition, available to only 206 of the nearly 30,000 business schools in the world of these characteristics, is added to that previously awarded by AMBA, makes UPF-BSM the first business school linked to a public university in Spain to achieve it. 

Perhaps the Spanish public universities, the European Union or UNESCO should promote their own virtual spaces. A quality public metaverse? Why not?

We are entering a global energy crisis unprecedented in human history. The increasing availability of fossil fuels from which we have powered our societies is coming to an end, and with it the end of cheap energy.

The war in the Ukraine accelerated inflation, which was already clearly rising. To mitigate the effects of inflation, there will be no other way than to raise rates, but raising rates implies standing in front of a mirror that will give us a distorted image, directly proportional to the volume of the debt and the inability to pay it.

"The era of cheap and abundant energy is coming to an end", this has been the warning of the CSIC scientist and disseminator, Antonio Turiel, at the conference The Energy Crisis in the World Today, organized by Johns Hopkins University - Pompeu Fabra University Public Policy Center at UPF Barcelona School of Management.

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.

The deficit, the debt, the downgrade and the default are the four steps to hell for a country. The Russian deficit is 4%, the debt is 19% and they have a Triple B.

José Luís Pellicer has a doctorate in Economic Sciences, a Law Degree, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan House Foundation and collaborator of the Chair of Decent and Sustainable Housing at UPF Barcelona School of Management.

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.

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.