IMD’s sustainability objectives for 2023 and beyond are rooted in our five core focus areas.
Our aims within each of these focus areas are to:
- Increase our offering of open-enrollment programs focusing on sustainability with the opportunity for professional certification
- Expand our custom program offerings for corporate partners in sustainability
- Hire additional researchers and faculty to enhance our thought leadership and programs focusing on sustainability
- Strengthen our community of sustainability leaders through regular events to create continuous peer-to-peer learning opportunities and enhance our applied research
- Strengthen our partnerships to ensure our impact has the widest reach
- Add a program focusing on women on boards
Continue to develop the technological capability to deliver impactful programs by:
- Designing programs with both synchronous and asynchronous elements, increasing flexibility and reducing travel
- Developing personalized learning journeys supported by a combination of more artificial intelligence and machine learning with opportunities for learners to explore and interact with lessons more deeply
- Delivering more opportunities to practice the concepts we teach through a new suite of gamified skills and mindset labs
- Moving pedagogy into interactive digital tools accessible after the program
- Move participation in our degree programs towards gender parity in the next few years
- Offer a Women in Finance Fellowship for our Strategic Finance program
- Thanks to the generosity of our donors and supporters, we will contribute to strengthening equity, inclusion, and diversity in leadership by offering support to applicants from underserved communities who wish to pursue business education at IMD. To further strengthen the diversity of thought and increase representation across leadership, female candidates will be prioritized.
- Ensure our whistleblowing, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption policies are implemented by introducing a publicly available platform for reporting any incidences for investigation. The fully outsourced platform will be confidential, available in English and French, and provide several channels for obtaining structured data. The platform, available to internal stakeholders and external partners and clients, is equipped to manage reports related to fraud, theft, bribery, corruption, harassment, discrimination, and conflict of interest.
- Explore additional certification for equal pay among genders at IMD
- Enhance our carbon measurement capabilities and develop carbon emissions targets and a roadmap for reducing our impact on the environment.
- Identify a range of high-impact initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint and promote sustainability across all aspects of our operations, prioritizing the implementation of energy-saving technologies, renewable energy, and regular maintenance of our buildings, and encouraging the use of sustainable transportation.
- Track our progress in 2023, complete our Scope 3 calculations for 2022, and set ambitious targets to continuously reduce our emissions.
- Work with our suppliers, partners, and clients to promote sustainable practices throughout our value chain.
- Continue to incorporate technology in our program delivery to reduce the need for participant or faculty travel.