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El papel de la ética en el diagnóstico y la solución de problemas directivos
Calleja, Ricardo; Marín, SergioTechnical Note BEN-137Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementLa presente nota ofrece, de forma resumida, una visión de las tres perspectivas fundamentales que se ponen en juego durante la resolución de conflictos directivos: la descriptiva, la instrumental y la evaluativo-normativa. La ética empresarial revela que estas tres perspectivas se encuentran relacionadas entre sí, es decir, que la actitud que tengamos ante la realidad (perspectiva evaluativa) condiciona el tipo de diagnóstico que podamos hacer d...Starting at €8.20
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Sesgos en la toma de decisiones
Huete, Luis MaríaTechnical Note PN-506Decision Analysis, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementBasado en los estudios experimentales del premio Nobel Daniel Kahneman, el documento ilustra el porqué de algunos fenómenos curiosos del comportamiento cotidiano. En el documento se exponen una docena de sesgos que juegan un papel frecuente en nuestra toma de decisiones, seamos o no del todo conscientes de ello. En concreto, el ser humano cuenta con dos sistemas fundamentales, y la forma en la que estos interactúan entre sí es lo que determina o ...Starting at €8.20
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A Note on Queuing Models
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesTechnical Note IVEY-9B19E006-EDecision AnalysisQueues (or waiting lines) are common in modern life. We wait in lines at the campus cafeteria, to board an airplane, in the emergency room, and when we call a company for customer service. We even wait for applications to be initiated and processed by our smartphone processors, and our online orders wait to be fulfilled at companies’ warehouses before being shipped to us. How long we wait in line depends on several factors and parameters. It may ...Starting at €8.20
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Business Ethics, Step by Step
Calleja, Ricardo; Marín, SergioTechnical Note BEN-138-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to serve as an introductory text to the Business Ethics course taught by Prof. Ricardo Calleja. Based on class discussion, the note presents the various attitudes that often occur among those taking a course on business ethics: distrustful, skeptical, pragmatic, compliant or reformist. Faced with these attitudes, the reader is invited to go one step further and see business ethics not as a burden, a set of demand...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Optimization
Cabot, J.; Baucells Alibés, ManelTechnical Note ADN-265-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsThis note introduces the available procedures to tackle three common types of optimization problems: Non-linear, linear, and integer optimization. In each case, we provide examples of real applications, and introduce the corresponding optimization procedures to solve them. It also reviews heuristic procedures to tackle more general problems. Three appendices explain (1) the graphical intuition of LP in the case of 2 decision variables, (2) the us...Starting at €8.20
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Measuring Uncertainties: Probability Functions
Ariño, Miguel AngelTechnical Note ADN-258-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsIn this note we present probability functions as a tool to measure uncertainties. Discrete and continuous probabilities are introduced as well as the distinction between probability functions and cumulative probabilities. The mean and standard deviation of a probability are also presented.Starting at €8.20
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Orderly Thinking: How to Deal With Prudential Problems
Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosTechnical Note ASNN-5-EDecision Analysis, Knowledge and CommunicationThis note reviews the discoveries regarding methods of thinking strictly with a view to action that have been accumulated by a large team of IESE faculty who have set out to continue what Juan A. Pérez López started in 1965 under the heading of "Case Analysis" (which, since the introduction of the MBA, has come to be known as "Analysis of Business Problems"). The note encourages a process of self-analysis and makes some practical suggestions to s...Starting at €8.20
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Las previsiones en la empresa
Ariño, Miguel Angel; Agell, PereTechnical Note ADN-248Decision Analysis, EconomicsSe realiza una introducción sobre qué es hacer previsiones en una empresa, por qué son importantes, para quién son útiles, así como las principales dificultades para hacer previsiones.Starting at €8.20
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Series temporales (Descomposición clásica)
Agell, PereTechnical Note TMN-154Decision Analysis, Finance, Service and Operations ManagementLa nota describe la descomposición clásica de una serie temporal en las componentes: tendencia, estacional y aleatoria. Se empieza por el cálculo de la tendencia, explicando previamente cómo elegir dentro de sus tipos más usuales. Seguidamente, después de la elección del tipo de modelo (aditivo o multiplicativo) se pasa a la determinación de las componentes estacionales y aleatorias. El análisis de las componentes aleatorias permite opinar sobre ...Starting at €8.20
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Introducción a las matemáticas
Bardolet Urgellès, David; Baucells Alibés, Manel; Gómez, JavierTechnical Note ADN-255Decision Analysis, EconomicsEsta nota técnica pretende dar un repaso a unos cuantos conceptos básicos de las matemáticas. Se refrescan algunas ideas de aritmética y porcentajes, así como ecuaciones y funciones de una variable. Al final, se adjuntan unos cuantos ejercicios sobre los temas tratados. Se trata de una nota técnica enfocada a alumnos que necesiten repasar conceptos básicos que se utilizarán en los cursos de análisis cuantitativo.Starting at €8.20