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Former British premier Liz Truss has resigned just 44 days after taking office amid a severe leadership crisis caused largely by her controversial announcements on pension schemes. 

The turbulence of recent times has led to a real change in logistics paradigms: more proximity, more stock and more integration. Oriol Montanyà, Director of the Postgraduate in Total Supply Chain Management, analyses the movements in the value chain over the last two years. 

For two days, the UPF Barcelona School of Management held various conferences and workshops on geopolitics and sustainability based on more than 30 studies carried out by researchers from up to 15 international universities. 

UPF-BSM joins the ranking for the first time with the MSc in Finance and Banking and the MSc in Marketing, which are among the top 25 in the world in terms of research impact and academic reputation.

"Quiet quitting" as a term became viral on TikTok, meaning that employees do only what is necessary, they don't actually quit but they don't go the "extra mile". Shortly after the quiet quitting trend went viral, a mirror term emerged in mainstream media: quiet firing, referring to managers quietly "forcing" employees out by giving them bad shifts, switch their teams, asking them to do tasks unrelated to their expertise, and withholding feedback.

The UPF Barcelona School of Management inaugurates the 2022-2023 academic year with the participation of Ignacio Marull, partner responsible for PwC in Catalonia and Andorra, accompanied by the Rector of the UPF, Oriol Amat; the Director General of the UPF-BSM, José M. Martínez-Sierra, and the Dean of the UPF-BSM, Llorenç Bagur, and three representatives of the class of 2023. 

The spread of disinformation is considered a global threat for freedom and democracy. The Internet has made it easier to publish fake stories, and social media have made it easier to spread false stories. In this regard, Alexandra Theben has carried out an study to test the critical evaluation of news messages in social media. 

The partnership aims to promote the digital transformation of the school and to apply technological innovation in the training of the leaders of the future.

On 3 October, at 18:30, Ignacio Marull, partner responsible for PwC in Catalonia and Andorra, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the 2022-2023 academic year.

While it is clear that companies need to undergo a big transformation to become more circular, the circular economy model cannot succeed without the involvement of consumers too. Consumers can participate in the process by engaging in sustainable behaviors such as household recycling or the reduction of energy consumption. However, engaging in such sustainable behaviors is not necessarily easy for consumers. In this article, we will explore two barriers to sustainable behavior as well as some solutions to overcome such barriers. 

Increasingly, small businesses are adopting advanced technologies to analyze and predict customer behavior. This is the case of Beabloo, a Barcelona-based company pioneer in the field and partner of Barcelona Retail Lab, a project promoted by the City of Barcelona, CorEixample and CTecno.

Peiró now has the challenge of leading UPF-BSM's business strategy in a global and transversal way for the coming years, something that will represent a crucial qualitative leap for reaching the milestones that have been set.

The Rector of the UPF, Oriol Amat, handed the award to the Chairman of CaixaBank for his leadership in the "main European banking merger" with Bankia. 

The solution is complex: to carbonize electricity production for the sake of a more competitive price, but contrary to the policies of the 2030 Agenda, or to assume the high cost of electricity with the consequent negative economic impact on Europe. In this context, what role does Spain play? 

All those who end up passing through the classrooms of business schools end up agreeing: in the end, taking a master's degree is worth it.