Bridging the sustainability skills gap
To prepare for the green revolution, companies need to rethink their approach to skills development – starting in the boardroom....

December 29, 2025 • by Frédéric Dalsace, Goutam Challagalla, Julia Binder, Florian Hoos , Sara Ratti, Adrian Dellecker, Howard H. Yu, Michael R. Wade, Vanina Farber, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 12 min read
In 2026, sustainability moves from lofty ambition to hard-nosed execution, driving resilience, competitiveness, and real business value. From circularity to AI-enabled energy systems and sustainable product design, IMD experts see action taking...
Continue readingAugust 22, 2022 • by Knut Haanaes in Sustainability • 7 min read
To prepare for the green revolution, companies need to rethink their approach to skills development – starting in the boardroom....
August 18, 2022 • by Knut Haanaes, Frédéric Dalsace, James E. Henderson in Sustainability • 3 min read
It's become clear that sustainability can be used as a powerful marketing tool, but how many companies are actually doing what they say? Here are some tools to determine whether an organizing...
August 11, 2022 in Sustainability • 6 min read
As environmental disasters become more frequent, the role of sustainable human resource (HR) practices will be critical in supporting the wellbeing and safety of workers...
August 4, 2022 • by Sara Gay in Sustainability • 5 min read
The pandemic has set back efforts to increase gender equality and women’s progression in the workplace. Taking meaningful action to prioritize work/life balance and increasing efforts to remove unconscious biases around women’s...
August 2, 2022 • by Misiek Piskorski in Sustainability • 6 min read
Implicit bias training does not bring the desired results. Organizations should focus on helping employees to discuss diversity with each other and implement the outcomes of these conversations....
July 21, 2022 • by Ralf W. Seifert, Yara Kayyali Elalem in Sustainability • 6 min read
Taking a full supply chain perspective on sustainability has never been more urgent....
July 14, 2022 • by Knut Haanaes in Sustainability • 8 min read
Why Paul Polman believes that companies whose leaders bring humanity back into business will help us all achieve net zero...
June 28, 2022 • by Anand Narasimhan in Sustainability • 10 min read
The future of the plastics industry hinges on a shift to a circular business model and the recruitment of the brightest and the best young people, Lucrèce Foufopoulos says in an I...
June 27, 2022 • by Achim Hupperts, Jan van der Kaaij in Sustainability • 8 min read
Making materiality the cornerstone of your sustainability strategy will help you to prioritize ESG issues to ensure they drive a business strategy that benefits both your organization and society...
June 20, 2022 • by Kamiar Mohaddes, Knut Haanaes, Marya L. Besharov in Sustainability • 7 min read
Government incentives to promote green technology and collaboration between startups and established companies will help accelerate the transformation to net zero, experts said in the latest Business Schools for Climate Leadership webinar....
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