IMD News
Updates on the latest developments at IMD and among its community.
September 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need for effective and efficient leadership in a crisis . To prepare for this and other new challenge s , 54 participants took a course in military...
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September 2020 Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich have taken the podium positions in the 2020 IMD-SUTD Smart City Index Report, a collaboration between IMD and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)...
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September 2020 Hundreds of entrepreneurs in Switzerland dream of success, whether that means getting their product to market, raising money or one day doing an IPO. But making it into the annual Swiss Top100 is...
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September 2020 One thing is certain: these are uncertain times. Making decisions in unstable environments is nothing new for today’s leaders. Yet when uncertainty skyrockets – powered by a global pandemic...
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September 2020 After more than a decade spent in diverse and rewarding corporate roles such as Senior Director Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) for US-based multinational Oracle and vice president...
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September 2020 In the past several years, digital transformation initiatives have been on the menu for many organizations. But since the pandemic swept shut many countries, cities and companies in March 2020...
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September 2020 In the third episode of “High Performance Boards”, IMD Professor of Governance Didier Cossin explores the topic of stewardship and how organizations can create true value with Chairman of...
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September 2020 Leading family enterprise platform Family Capital has named Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship Peter Vogel and Lise Møller, Director of Family Business Engagement, among the top...
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September 2020 “In these times of uncertainty, we absolutely must allow for trial and error and see mistakes as learnings. Otherwise, we risk paralysis,” Maria Schmitt, IMD EMBA Cohort Director, has said. Leaders...
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September 2020 The Center for Future Readiness will produce the LEAP Readiness Index, which measures how prepared industry incumbents are for coming challenges. Backed by a multi-million-dollar grant from the...
Read more September 2020 At the height of the COVID crisis in April 2020, one EMBA alumni partnership succeeded in launching two start-ups that are revolutionizing local health care in South Africa. Two distinct ventures...
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September 2020 IMD’s Class of 2020 has, with the exception of the Swiss lockdown, been a fully face-to-face experience. Necessity, in this case, is not only the mother of invention but also of opportunity...
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September 2020 COVID-induced travel restrictions have caused multiple butterfly effects the world over . Take the strawberry , for example . “ In our sector, you have to go and see the fruit ; it’s like going...
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September 2020 1. What are you working on at the moment? Management education as we knew it until February 2020 is a thing of the past. IMD is facing the greatest disruption of its business model in its existence...
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August 2020 Agathon was a company at a crossroads. COVID-19 and its associated confinement periods, lockdowns and slowed economic activity had a severe impact on the company’s growth trajectory. To address...
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August 2020 Pablo Percelsi was packing his bags, having wrapped up his two-year mission as Deputy Head of Delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon. Suddenly, the...
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August 2020 “How do we create a global brand campaign that says that the house is on fire to project a sense of urgency?” This was one of the thought-provoking questions that Nijhawan threw to his...
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July 2020 The energy industry is in flux. Lockdown and social-distancing measures triggered delays in project construction and extreme disruption plagued global supply chains. But even more challenging were...
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July 2020 At the intersection of the economy, environment and society, sustainability is a crucial issue for all industries and all sectors, says Professor Knut Haanaes, and not one will emerge from the...
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July 2020 Guns, germs and geopolitics lead the concerns of non-profit boards, says Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, but they should not overshadow how the organization is run.
Read more January 2017 The Qatar Petroleum High Performance Boards Award Ceremony, held in Doha in January 2017, marked the culmination of a year-long transformational journey during which IMD and Qatar Petroleum laid...
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January 2017 Two teams of IMD EMBA participants recently won awards in the 2017 John Molson MBA International Case competition. The IMD case: ''Will LinkedIn Learning Disrupt the Education Landscape?'' took...
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