Estimates in recent days, Repsol, has revealed a very interesting conflict of interests between the CEO and largest shareholder of the company, the builder Sacyr, which holds 20.01% of capital. The issue of conflict is the interim dividend payable to shareholders under the exercise [...]

Dear employer, in all the years of collaboration with the Economic Focus, if a subject I've written is Corporate Governance (38 items in the category Corporate Governance). Even in 2003, Enron in crisis, we published a monograph, in the Keys Collection, dedicated to this subject, the contents of which [...]

Dear employer, the title of this article reproduces the book Alfred Chandler (1918-2007) in 1977, the Spanish version which has just published the editorial in the collection Belloch Esade Fund. The author, holder of the Chair of Business History at Harvard Business School since 1971, explains how the U.S., the company modern [...]

Dear employer, I think I begin to understand the crisis we are experiencing: a confidence crisis, not economic, and last the duration of the mistrust among financial agents. Why indeed is a problem between them, have been deceiving each other and end it all paid. Maybe it [...]

Dear employer, more than three years ago that I wrote a letter entitled The remuneration of directors and senior managers, was in 2004 and started to implement measures adopted following the crisis of corporate beginning of the century - Enron (s) and company - and one of the most controversial was the transparency [...]

Dear employer, some fifteen days "Grupo Especial de Trabajo advise the CNMV for the harmonization of the referrals and update of the Olivencia and Aldama Reports on good government of the Societies cotizadas" presented a first draft of "Unified Code" and opened a public debate on a set of [...]

Dear employer, you want to write this article in an issue that directly affects me, you know that's not my style address issues of professional self, but what happened this week takes me. 'll Explain.
Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker at a monthly meeting organized by the [...]

Dear entrepreneur, a few months ago I got invited to a conference on good governance and business results. I have to say that when I suggested I was hesitant to accept the invitation. The reason? Within academia, there is no conclusions about the topic due to the lack of consensus on the variables [...]

Dear employer, in a recent article (La Vanguardia, 31 January) Professor Wheat, also executive director of Fomento del Trabajo Nacional, explains his concern that Spain is seeking to regulate corporate social responsibility (CSR) and therefore appear a series of mandatory regulations. Gave two arguments for [...]

Dear employer, all that is known a few weeks ago the CEO of Repsol YPF, Alfonso Cortina, he resigned and was replaced in office by Antoni Brufau. One consequence of this "resignation" is the compensation of 19 million that the company will pay to dimissionari, according [...]