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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.

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

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.  

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. 

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.

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. 

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".

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. 

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.