Focused programs at IMD business school

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Get in-depth business knowledge and focus on developing or building specific capabilities to translate strategic direction into actionable results. Find the right program to help you become a more complete executive in your area of interest at IMD business school - ranked 1st in open programs for the last 9 years. Get in-depth business knowledge and focus on developing or building specific capabilities to translate strategic direction into actionable results. Find the right program to help you become a more complete executive in your area of interest at IMD business school - ranked 1st in open programs for the last 9 years.

Strategy and Marketing Programs

Build your smart roadmap for a sustainable business future

Leading Sustainable Business Transformation

(LSBT)

Leading Sustainable Business Transformation provides you with a complete business transformation journey through the lens of sustainability.

Leverage international market opportunities for growth

International Growth Strategies

(IGS)

Find the right opportunities for your company to successfully grow into new markets. You will learn to think systematically about your international growth options, how...

Aligning the dimensions of customer-centricity for growth

Leading Customer-Centric Strategies

(LCCS)

Effective customer-centricity relies upon the seamless interplay and alignment of cross-functional business dimensions: strategic marketing, digital transformation, and...

Navigate a reality of constant change

Strategic Resilience in a Disrupted World

(SRDW)

Discover the latest insights on what makes companies resilient in times of disruption. Gain clarity, become future ready, and emerge stronger as an individual and...

Purposeful & sustainable luxury: The new keys to brand desirability

Reinventing Luxury Lab

(RLSC)

IMD Luxury Lab is an experiential strategy program for senior executives in all reaches of the luxury world as it faces new challenges and opportunities. The IMD Luxury...

Leverage analogical thinking to approach unfamiliar problems

Complex Problem Solving

(CPS)

Go beyond traditional strategy frameworks and equip yourself with a clear process and versatile tools to solve complex problems and engage your stakeholders throughout.

Develop an effective strategy for your unit or organization

Strategic Thinking

(ST)

Develop your strategic thinking. Formulate ambitious, but realistic business and organizational strategies with diagnostics, creative alternatives and smart choice.

Lead your strategic initiative to successful implementation

Strategy Execution

(SE)

Overcome the key challenges inherent to strategic change, and learn practical frameworks to successfully implement your strategic projects and initiatives.

Build the right partnerships for your business

Strategic Partnerships

(SP)

Develop a clear roadmap on how to either establish a strategic partnership, or manage a strategic partnership for success.

Create long-term growth by reinventing your business

Business Growth Strategies

(BGS)

Adopt a new and more radical strategic approach so your products or services don’t become obsolete, or you get blindsided by new competition.

A value-based approach

Marketing Management

(MM)

Take a value-based approach to marketing management and develop the skills that will make you a more relevant and influential marketer for your business today.

Sustainability and Innovation Programs

Build your smart roadmap for a sustainable business future

Leading Sustainable Business Transformation

(LSBT)

Leading Sustainable Business Transformation provides you with a complete business transformation journey through the lens of sustainability.

Embed sustainability into the core of your business

Winning Sustainability Strategies

(WSS)

Embed sustainability into the core of your business and create your own sustainability plan for lasting change.

Master innovation through real-world application

Innovation in Action

(IA)

Gain a comprehensive toolbox for innovation breakthroughs and build your entrepreneurial skills.
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Achieving high performance throughout the value chain

Driving Strategic Innovation

(DSI)

Changes the way business leaders think about innovation and technology strategy, and provides a comprehensive roadmap for achieving breakthrough performance across the...

Future-proof your business by connecting to Asia’s fast-expanding innovation ecosystems

Asian Innovation Strategies

(AIS)

This program will equip you with in-depth insights into Asian innovation, its sources, processes and consequences.
Discover how to leverage the Asian market by applying...

Grow your business through innovation

Disruptive Innovation

(DI)

Apply strategic thinking to ensure innovations are implemented to maximum effect.

Leverage entrepreneurial thinking & acting to ensure long-term competitiveness

Lean Intrapreneurship

(LI)

Designed to build and develop intrapreneurs within organizations, fostering the ability, and agility, to seize untapped business opportunities.

Finance Programs

Creating value through financial excellence

Strategic Finance

(SF)

Refreshes and refines the skills of senior financial and business executives through a broadened understanding of the latest financial concepts and tools

Develop confidence in analysis and managerial finance

Business Finance

(BF)

Refine your intuition for solving key financial problems, analyze alternatives in decision making and formulate value-maximizing strategies.

Understand the future of money

Navigating Fintech Innovation and Disruption

(NFID)

For business and/or finance professionals looking to learn about the latest financial technologies that are driving rapid change. Here are your key program benefits:

Governance Programs

How board directors make a real difference

High Performance Boards

(HPB)

Exposes board members to the latest research on top performing boards and shares best practice from different global governance regimes.

Get the right digital vocabulary and toolkit

Digital Transformation for Boards

(DTB)

Develop your understanding of the new digital landscape so you can evaluate digital opportunities and threats for your organization with confidence.

Team Dynamics for Boards explores relationships of power and control in the boardroom

Team Dynamics for Boards

(TDB)

Discover how you can influence these relationships to drive a culture of high performance.

Get the right finance vocabulary and toolkit

Finance for Boards

(FFB)

Finance for Boards gives you the essential finance knowledge and tools you need to make tough board decisions in areas such as mergers & acquisitions and risk...

Build a lasting foundation for your board

Setting up the Board

(SB)

Setting up the Board is a program about the creation of a true board whether there was no board at all or only a minimum board before.

Risk governance and prevention in a chaotic world

Boards and Risks

(BR)

Boards and Risks enables board members to benchmark board best practices on risks and update to the latest risk thinking.

Master stakeholder dynamics for effective corporate governance

Stakeholder Management for Boards

(SMB)

Stakeholder Management for Boards enables board members to explore new ways of thinking about stakeholder dynamics and gain diverse tools for best-in-class stakeholder...

Assess and govern the ethical risks of digital initiatives

Digital Ethics for Boards

(DEB)

Digital Ethics for Boards explores the ethical risks associated with the use of data, algorithms and emerging technologies; enabling you to mitigate the risk.

Effectively advise on geopolitical risks and opportunities

Mastering Geopolitics for Boards

(MGB)

Master Geopolitics for Boards enables you, as a board member, to identify and evaluate the opportunities and risks presented by the geopolitical landscape as well as...

Confidently guide corporate strategy in the digital age

Strategy Governance for Boards

(SGB)

Strategy Governance for Boards enables you to play a meaningful, advisory role in the governance of your firm’s strategy within the context of an increasingly digital...

Negotiation and Organizational Learning Programs

Leveraging complexity to build win-win partnerships

Negotiating for Value Creation

(NVC)

Helps executives master the negotiation frameworks and processes required to manage successful value-driven win-win partnerships.

Executing strategy through world-class learning and development

Organizational Learning in Action

(OLA)

Empowers corporate learning professionals to develop and implement successful learning strategies across their organizations and drive business growth as a result

Family Business Programs

Assure the continuity of your family business

Leading the Family Business

(LFB)

Helps family businesses to better understand and manage their own challenges by sharing experiences and benchmarking success with other family firms.

Govern and transfer your wealth

Leading the Family Office

(LFO)

Helps families of wealth set up and sustainably govern their own Single Family Office

Stay competitive and united across generations

Navigating your Family Enterprise into the Future

(NFE)

Program for enterprising families run as part of IMD's OWP program, a transformational experience providing cutting-edge insights on the hottest management topics.

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