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IMD - China Power - As The Economist launches a special weekly section on China, IMD Professor Jean-Pierre Lehmann reflects on the country’s rising global power.
IMD - Economic Challenges - Property bubble, overcapacity in manufacturing, inflation and rising labor costs. After 30 years of steady growth, is China's economic dream turning into a nightmare?
IMD - Solar Energy - Ten, twenty years ago, solar power was considered a distant dream. Today, the dream is fast becoming reality.
IMD - Networking - How do you define success for your start-up? And what are your networking objectives? IMD Executive Director Jim Pulcrano has some observations and warnings for Swiss entrepreneurs.
IMD - Layoffs - Can being laid off actually improve overall health and well-being? Does it irrevocably damage their self-esteem? IMD Professor Suzanne de Janasz sheds light on a business landscape dark in unemployment.
IMD - Occupy Wall Street - To protect their personal reputations and the brand value of their companies, board directors have to ensure that they are not associated with, nor get labelled as corporate insiders who enrich themselves at the expense of society.
IMD - Euro Collapse - The euro celebrates its 10th anniversary this month under a dark cloud of crisis. However, Didier Cossin argues a discerning risk analysis could provide those investing in Europe with great opportunities.
IMD - Corporate Citizenship - With recession and hard economic times, some of the world’s biggest brands are stepping up their role in corporate citizenship.
IMD - Effective Leadership - Just over 100 years ago, Roald Amundsen conquered the South Pole. As IMD Professor Bill Fischer explains, his success is a lesson in leadership.
IMD - Brand Management - Companies have often grappled with the “ownership” of their brands. Ultimately, the brand is simply what it represents in the minds of consumers.
IMD - Euro crisis - Standard & Poor’s warned of a possible mass ratings downgrade for 15 euro zone countries. This would have been unthinkable one year ago.
IMD - Commoditization - Look at almost any industry and you will see companies struggling to differentiate what they have to offer from everything else in the marketplace.“My product is becoming commoditized. Is there a way out?”
IMD - Chinese competition - According to the current business mantra, any company that wants to be global has to do business with China.
IMD - Business School Curriculum - Business schools overall
have been too complacent in respect to the fragilities and the threats.
have been too complacent in respect to the fragilities and the threats.
IMD - MBA Development - If you were the MBA Program Director, what would you never change? Every time I meet a group of MBA alumni I ask them that question. Their answers always focus on the same three themes.
IMD - Sustainable Competitiveness - From the financial crisis of 2008 to today’s “Occupy Wall Street,” we have testament that many societies have been suffering from short-termism.
IMD - High Potential - It’s great to make the high-potential list, but HiPos can also fall from grace. Here are four traps to look out for.
IMD - Eco-labels - Companies are increasingly coming under attack for the negative environmental and social impacts of their business activities.
IMD -Corporate Social Reponsiblity - There’s money to be made in socially responsible investing. IMD Professor Michael Yaziji explores how asset managers need to better assess a company’s deeper ecological impact.
IMD – Segmentation - What sort of business worries keep senior global executives awake at night?
In my conversations with business leaders, I am hearing that more and more marketing-related issues are taking up senior management time.
In my conversations with business leaders, I am hearing that more and more marketing-related issues are taking up senior management time.
IMD - 2011 G20 - With just a few days to go before the G20 summit in Cannes (France), it is no exaggeration to say that the world is in an unholy mess.
IMD - The role of entrepreneurship in aiding economic growth has earned increasing appreciation of late, not least in the wake of the global financial crisis.
IMD - Occupy Wall Street - Demonstrations are taking place in many parts of the world, inspired by the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York. There are even protests in Hong Kong, a place once described as a “capitalist paradise.”
IMD - Supply Chain Model - Scarcity of raw materials and soaring prices for commodities, the financial crisis and the increasing intensity of natural catastrophes have created a paradigm shift.
IMD - Onboarding - While leadership transitions can be revitalizing, they often prove difficult for both the incoming leader and his or her new team.
IMD - Apple CSR - According to recent media coverage, it would seem that Apple is interested in developing a new vision, one which includes CSR.
IMD - Develop Strength - As someone who helps develop leaders, I’m often torn between telling them “Play to your strengths” or “Improve your weaknesses.”
IMD - China Future - No one on planet earth – and probably not many elsewhere – could even in their wildest dreams have imagined the trajectory that China has come to take.
IMD - Financial Crisis - Financial education has misled a generation of managers, encouraging them to behave badly under the pretext of pseudo-scientific principles.
IMD - Trust - Public trust has been broken on many levels in recent years. One only need mention names like Madoff, Enron and FIFA to make the point resonate.
IMD - WEF - In his speech at the opening of the WEF meeting on September 13 Premier Wen Jiabao made it clear that China’s position allowed it to make conditions.
IMD - China Growth - At a time when China’s rapid economic growth is shaping the landscape of international business, serious questions arise on the dangers of accelerated development.
IMD - Chinese Innovation - The Chinese are innovating in a uniquely Chinese manner and consequently rising as formidable challengers to traditional multinationals.
IMD - Difference Leader Manager - Management, we were told, is associated with “controlling and problem solving” while leadership is about “motivating and inspiring.”
IMD - After September 11 - 9/11 was a deeply dramatic and traumatic event. The most poignant of these is the fact that since 9/11 we have entered an unprecedented era of uncertainty.
IMD - Steve Jobs Innovation - He was able to use his position of power within Apple to energize innovation project teams, set them loose, and then, protect them.
IMD - MBA Results - MBAs sometimes say with cynicism “I learned as much from my classmates as I did from the professors.” In today’s business world, that should be said with pride. MBA programs should take class composition – not just individual selection – as seriously as they do any other part of the curriculum.
IMD - Birla - “Tum Tata ho ya Birla?” is Hindi for “Are you a Tata or a Birla?” This is what young Indians teasingly ask when one of their friends is bragging about his business ambitions or entrepreneurial aspirations.
IMD - New Business Financing - We believe entrepreneurs need to leverage customers and partners to solve the financing paradox, and to embrace surprises.
IMD - Short Selling Ban - Emergency decisions to impose bans on short selling of financial stocks show that governments are doomed to repeat mistakes.
IMD - US Credit Rating - Downgrading the US debt has been a non-event, and the massive equity sell-off that followed just an overreaction.
IMD - Start-up Business Plan - The usefulness of a business plan diminishes precipitously as an entrepreneur moves away from the original idea.
IMD - Consumer Behaviour - Sometimes consumers will put up with a lot to secure a good price. Just look at Ryanair, which is almost as famous for its tough no-frills approach to customer service as for its cheap airfares.
IMD - Good Entrepreneurship - Are great entrepreneurs born or are they built? It’s a critical question for any aspiring owner who wants to start a business.
IMD - SOCIAL MEDIA DILEMMA - To compete successfully in this new social dilemma, you must not allow yourself to fall behind. Our advice is to benchmark your social media performance against your strongest competitors. Identify the social media platforms and continuously monitor brand awareness and brand engagement of your brand and your competitors. human groups is not simply the average of its members.
There are five reasonably common features of the East Asian experiences that should serve as inspirations to Egyptian policy makers.
IMD - Team Intelligence - Teams have intelligence just like individual people do. But the intelligence factor of human groups is not simply the average of its members.
IMD - US Crisis - Times may seem gloomy. Gas prices are higher than anyone would have ever imagined. Unemployment in the US is still at an all time high. And many Americans are worried that their children’s futures will be compromised by today’s high deficits and debt.
IMD - China Innovation - Taking photos, writing e-mails, showing movies – the smart phone has revolutionized our culture in profound ways and evolved into much more than a device for simply making and receiving calls.
IMD - Digital Natives - Digital natives, termed by some as Generation Me, are now entering or preparing to enter the labor market.