Stephane Garelli - IMD Business School
Stephane Garelli - IMD Business School

Stéphane Garelli

Professor Emeritus of World Competitiveness

Stéphane Garelli is Professor Emeritus of World Competitiveness at IMD and Professor at the University of Lausanne.

As founder of the IMD World Competitiveness Center, he is closely connected to the world of business and has pioneered research in this field for 30 years.

Garelli is Chairman of the Board of Directors at leading French language Swiss newspaper Le Temps. He was formerly a member of the board at Banque Edouard Constant, and at Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding, where he was Chairman.

For many years, he was Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and the Davos Symposium. He also spent 12 years as a permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard.

He is the author of numerous publications on competitiveness and global business, including the best-selling Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms, and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness and Étés Vous un Tigre un Chat Ou un Dinosaure?

Garelli is a member of a number of institutes, including the China Enterprise Management Association, Board of the Fondation Jean Monet pour l’Europe, the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Mexican Council for Competitiveness, and an advisory committee member of the Thai Management Association. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee Sustainability and Legacy Commission and was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of Vaud, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.

Academic publications
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2013

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989. The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 60 c...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
2 August 2013
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2012

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) has been a pioneer in assessing world competitiveness since 1989.The WCY provides a long term and measured assessment of the performance on 59 countries...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
4 September 2012
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2011

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989.The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 59 co...

Data Analytics Competitiveness Economics
17 November 2011
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2010

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989.The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 58 co...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
21 June 2010
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2009

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989.The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 55 co...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
18 June 2009
Book Chapter
New waves in globalization and competitiveness: Welcome to globalization's second wave...and another wave is already on the horizon

Developing nations have been viewed as a source of cheaper resources, which provided a competitive advantage for companies in the developed world. However, the competitive advantage is starting to ...

Global Business Competitiveness
25 September 2008
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2008

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989.The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 55 co...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
18 June 2008
Book Chapter
Competitivenesss 20 years later

A brief history of how competitiveness became such a success in modern economics.

Competitiveness
1 January 2008
Book Chapter
The competitiveness roadmap: 2008-2050

This roadmap is an attempt to describe and assess the main issues that will affect the world competitiveness landscape over the next four decades. Issues are shown along two axes - degree of impact...

Competitiveness
1 January 2008
Book Chapter
The new waves in globalization and competitiveness

Globalization and competitiveness evolve in waves. Each successive wave has its own business logic and its own mode of operation. And each wave eventually fades away to be replaced by another. The ...

Global Business Competitiveness
1 January 2008
Book Chapter
The big shake-up: The race to catch up with the United States

A big shake-up in economic and business power is evident in the results of the 2007 edition of IMD's World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY). Emerging nations are quickly catching up in terms of compe...

Economics Competitiveness
2 November 2007
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2007

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations and has been published by IMD since 1989.The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 55 co...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
3 July 2007
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2006

The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation’s environment creates and...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
29 June 2006
Book
Top class competitors: How nations, firms and individuals succeed in the new world of competitiveness

Competitiveness is a term much used but poorly defined. Nevertheless, it is a force that affects us all, and its goal is to raise prosperity. Building on the pioneering work of Michael Porter, A Wo...

Competitiveness Economics Performance Management
4 April 2006
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2005

This yearbook presents one global ranking of the competitiveness of 60 economies. It also gives the national competitiveness profiles for these 51 countries and 9 regional economies as well as some...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
12 July 2005
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2004

This yearbook presents one global ranking of the competitiveness of 60 economies. It also gives the national competitiveness profiles for these 51 countries and 9 regional economies as well as some...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
17 June 2004
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2003

This yearbook presents one global ranking of the competitiveness of 59 economies. It also gives the national competitiveness profiles for these 59 countries as well as some articles on competitiven...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
23 June 2003
Book
IMD world competitiveness yearbook : 2002

This yearbook presents one global ranking of the competitiveness of 49 economies. It also gives the national competitiveness profiles for these 49 countries as well as some articles on competitiven...

Economics Competitiveness Data Analytics
28 June 2002
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