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

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

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 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.

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.

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".

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.