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Call for Applications for the II Award for the Best Final Degree Project “The Relevance of Financial Information for Decision-Making”
We are pleased to inform you of the call for applications for the II Award for the Best Final Degree Project “The Relevance of Financial Information for Decision-Making”, organised by the Madrid branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Spain (ICJCE) in collaboration with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Women on family business boards avoid layoffs
The article «Women on Family Business Boards Shun Lyoffs» by our colleagues Jessenia Dávila, Luis Gómez-Mejía, Fernando Muñoz Bullón and María J. Sánchez-Bueno has been selected as the winner of the Schulze Award for Publication 2023/24 from FamilyBusiness.org in the Commentary category.
UC3M Business professors receive awards for their research
Publication of the winners of the UC3M Business Research Award 2023: Prof. Gemma Berenguer receives the UC3M Award for Excellence; Prof. Marco Giometti receives the Juan de la Cierva grant.
“Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success”
The work of our colleague Joshua H. Katz, co-authored with Lillien M. Ellis, has been accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Review.
“Cognitive Economy and Product Categorization”
The work of our colleague Michele Piazzai, co-authored with Min Liu and Martina Montauti, has been accepted for publication in the journal Organization Science.
Family businesses lay off fewer workers, according to a study
Family businesses have more incentives to avoid labor practices such as layoffs, which can damage the affective value that the family has invested in the company, undermine its reputation and project a pejorative image within its community. That is one of the conclusions of an international research project involving the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), which analyzes whether companies controlled by a family offer greater job security compared to non-family businesses.
The UC3M’s Master’s in Finance has received recognition from the prestigious CFA Institute.
The CFA Institute’s University Affiliation Program recognizes academic institutions that incorporate at least 70% of the CFA® Program Candidate Body of Knowledge™ (CBOK) into their curricula.
Carlos Sunyer has received the “Nada es gratis” (Nothing is Free) award for his Master’s Thesis
Carlos Sunyer, a doctoral student in Business and Finance at UC3M, has received the Prize for the Dissemination of Master’s Thesis in Economics from the Nada es Gratis blog.
Teaching Excellence Awards 2022-2023
UC3M Business presents the 2022-2023 Teaching Awards to five professors in the department.