IMD Impact Stories
Showcasing the impact for participants and companies in IMD’s open, online, customized, EMBA and MBA programs.
June 2020 Not long ago, Søren Stig was a very worried man. The COVID-19 crisis was quickly taking over Europe in March, and like his fellow Danes, Stig went into confinement. But rather than let fear...
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May 2020 Despite hitting a global health emergency in the weeks following its launch, the founders of KC Impact are confident that staying true to their purpose will prove a winning strategy. “Flexibility...
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May 2020 IMD recently spoke with alumnus Rob Nijst, CEO of VTTI, to learn how he is leading the company through the current crisis. While many businesses have been decimated in the past few months, VTTI &ndash...
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May 2020 In a climate where 90% of start-ups fail, one outlier has just made the leap from incubation to incarnation. Annaida, one of 27 winners in the 21st IMD Startup Competition in 2018, has...
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May 2020 Parminder Kohli is not a man with a plan. When it comes to his personal and professional life, this senior executive doesn’t write the rules in advance. His philosophy of opening himself up...
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April 2020 More than just a traditional academic offering, IMD’s EMBA program is known for its international approach. It is exactly this global sensibility that allowed for Taku Yokoyama to complete his...
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April 2020 IMD Alumni Swati Dalal and Mathieu Pointeau reflect back on the crises their respective intakes faced during their MBA programs and how the experience, skills and insights they developed during...
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March 2020 We spoke to IMD alumnus Gautier Porot (EMBA), Regional Security Manager for International SOS, former Swiss Guard and Major in the Swiss active reserve Armed Forces.
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February 2020 IMD Alumni Impact: Angelica Adamski
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February 2020 Javier Sanchez Castro, EMBA 2018, on being a better leader and his quest for lifelong learning.
Read more January 2020 MBA graduate links business with military
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October 2019 Interview with Milena Amaral, IMD EMBA graduate (2014) and fashion industry entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Neovili
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September 2019 Interview with Smita Suchde Gruetter, IMD EMBA graduate (2016), serial entrepreneur and philanthropist
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June 2019 Brigitte Urban, Head of Service Engineering at Siemens Mobility GmbH, has become the 1000th executive to choose IMD’s Leading Digital Business Transformation (LDBT) program
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June 2019 Pablo Percelsi’s career has often placed him in closer proximity to the world’s battle fields than its board rooms. Even so, completing IMD’s EMBA with executives from the world of business has led...
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May 2019 "IMD's MBA Career Development Center directly helped me get my job by initiating contact with prospect companies." "Right from the onset of the MBA program, in fact even before, the IMD MBA careers...
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April 2019 IMD EMBA Stefano Poli, and MBA alumnus Hans Ottosen launch new tech system for shipping
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April 2019 Interview with Bader Al-Attar on his experience in IMD’s Advanced Management Program
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March 2019 Georgios Sioutis was preparing for a new career challenge and was therefore looking for a focused program in Strategic Partnerships. He says the program quickly led to him successfully applying his...
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March 2019 In depth interview with Galina Antova, IMD MBA alumna whose ambitions and business smarts led her to the top. She believes gender equality isn’t a women’s issue — it’s a human one.
Read more February 2017 Sheer determination and a taste for innovation have been the main motors of Manish Kapoor’s career. For over years, he has successfully turned markets around for American Express India, where he...
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February 2017 Satakarni Makkapati completed IMD’s executive MBA in 2015. Armed with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, Satakarni is President at Aurobindo Pharma. Respected for being a classmate whose input...
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February 2017 Serco is a vast corporation about which most of us know very little. Globally, the public services company operates across four regions – the UK and Europe, ASPAC, North America and the Middle East...
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February 2017 Johan Slotte has been deputy CEO at Teleste, a Finnish technology company that offers broadband video and data communication networks and services since 2007, and has held senior executive positions...
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February 2017 Challenge Innovation is not the first word that comes to mind when speaking of the pharmaceutical industry, but without creative research and development, new and differentiated products would...
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