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Hope Murera, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of COMESA’s ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company), explains that one of the best ways to achieve gender parity in an organization is to partner with...

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Continue readingMarch 27, 2023 • by Hope Murera in Leadership • 5 min read
Hope Murera, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of COMESA’s ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company), explains that one of the best ways to achieve gender parity in an organization is to partner with...
March 23, 2023 • by David Bach in Leadership • 9 min read
To improve decision making, every stakeholder – both internal and external –needs to be given a voice, says Isabelle Deschamps, the mining group’s Chief Legal Officer, Governance and Corporate Affairs...
March 14, 2023 • by Miriam Twaalfhoven in Leadership • 5 min read
Miriam Twaalfhoven, an advocate of non-profit organizations in education, explains why she turned to secondary education after a career in business and prefers to support one child at a time....
March 9, 2023 • by Katharina Lange in Leadership • 9 min read
COVID-19 heightened appreciation among executives of the value of resilience. Now they need to engage in clear thinking about what the term means and how to instill it in their employees and...
March 3, 2023 in Leadership • 6 min read
Changes to data-privacy regulations require CMOs to rethink their strategies, warns Öykü Işık, Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity at IMD....
March 2, 2023 • by Paolo Cervini, Gabriele Rosani  in Leadership • 6 min read
Many executives still struggle to see the link between kindness and corporate results. Measuring leaders' more empathetic qualities against employee motivation is one way to quantify its impact on business performance, say...
February 22, 2023 in Leadership • 9 min read • Podcast available
Mickey Mikitani tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how he has grown Rakuten from an e-commerce startup into an ecosystem spanning internet services, fintech, and mobile....
February 20, 2023 • by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff in Leadership • 11 min read
After the controversy surrounding rap star Ye’s anti-Semitic comments, the sportswear giant adidas found itself under the spotlight for historical links to the Nazi regime. Lindsay Krasnoff explains how a legacy company...
February 17, 2023 • by Susan Goldsworthy in Leadership • 8 min read
When senior employees at Dutch firm IG&H walked away in frustration with the company’s leadership, founder and CEO Jan van Hasenbroek realized that things had to change. Susan Goldsworthy, Affiliate Professor of Leadership,...
February 8, 2023 • by Heather Cairns-Lee, James Lawley , Paul Tosey in Leadership • 8 min read
Leaders will get far more useful responses if they learn the art of asking ‘clean’ questions. Heather Cairns-Lee, James Lawley and Paul Tosey explain how to do it....
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