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PRESS RELEASE
Back to last visited page| IMD runs its largest annual global business program for top executives | |
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| Date - Location | 25 June 2007 - Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Text | From 23-28 June, IMD is welcoming some 470 executives on campus to discuss global trends, their projected effects on business and leadership, and other management issues that companies face every day. IMD’s flagship program, OWP – Orchestrating Winning Performance – celebrates its 13th edition. Supported by the most up-to-the-minute IMD research and led by world class Faculty, OWP presents the latest thinking on today’s key management issues. This year OWP welcomes some 470 participants of 55 different nationalities, from 324 companies based in 57 countries (including India, Nigeria, China, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil) and representing 53 different industries. The majority of participants are CEOs or other top-level executives. Smaller than most business schools, IMD offers executive education on a scale that allows participants to really get to know both each other and the school’s professors. But what makes OWP so special and unique? Says Bettina Buechel, OWP Program Co-Director and Professor of Strategy & Organization: OWP helps executives develop new insights, expand their international network and tap into new energy. It is a tailor made-experience which offers a wide spectrum of different topics. OWP is all about the right balance between learning and networking. Participants go to sessions with those who share their interest in a topic. This is what makes OWP unique. Martha Maznevski, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and International Management, adds: We hope that participants leave with some specific tools for executing well as well as inspiration about the importance of their role as leaders – stimulating others to execute. In this way, leaders will execute the strategy and at the same time will develop sustainable, committed organizations well into the future. This year for the first time, IMD will also offer participants a chance to get up to speed on important global trends that will affect their businesses as well as their personal life. These trends include: - Changing industry & consumer landscape - Shifting economic power - Changing geopolitical & labour landscape - Changing technology landscape - Changing economics of information - Growing stakeholder demands - Growing pressure on natural resources Why IMD has chosen to discuss global trends? Professor Buechel responds: IMD’s emphasis has been to ensure that participants get the opportunity to learn more about the global trends that we are all faced with in the decades to come, and to ensure that we create a vibrant learning ambiance. If participants successfully implement a few of the insights that most struck them during the program, then IMD has achieved its goal: to look inside themselves first, explore questions that matter, notice patterns, share discoveries, and connect diverse perspectives. In the evening, participants will attend presentations on world competitiveness with IMD Professor Stéphane Garelli, and Dr.Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world. Dr. Piccard will share his experiences as a balloonist, venturing around the world, having a vision and being inspired to get things done. |
| About IMD | IMD is a leading global business school based in Lausanne, Switzerland. For over 60 years, IMD has worked with leading global companies to develop and retain management talent. IMD is the “global meeting place”: the most international of business schools worldwide. It offers learning based on innovative and highly relevant research that can be applied to business challenges immediately. This is IMD's "Real World. Real Learning" approach (www.imd.org). IMD is ranked number one worldwide in executive education (Financial Times, 2008). IMD’s MBA is ranked first worldwide (Economist, 2008). |
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