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Is your AI a witness for the defense or prosecution?
23 hours ago • by Abraham Hongze Lu in Artificial Intelligence • 13 min read • 
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Organizations have historically maintained a comfortable distance between corporate rhetoric and operating reality, but all that changed with AI. Boards must move past performative oversight or face severe regulatory and reputational risks,...
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The CEO guide to Cybersecurity, with IMD professor Oyku Isik
July 21, 2022 in Management Cast • 1 min read • 
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Öykü Işık helps businesses to tackle cybersecurity and data privacy. In this episode of ManagementCast she tells listeners what threats to look out for and why...
Three ways to assess your portfolio’s exposure to autocratic regimes
July 19, 2022 • by Elisabetta Basilico, Angelo Calvello in Finance • 5 min read
Over the past decade a global decline in democracy has increased investor exposure to autocratic regimes. Here’s how to weigh up the direct and indirect risks to your portfolio across index funds,...
Why Big Brother should not be watching you at work
July 15, 2022 • by Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Sonja Köhne, Thomas Schildhauer, Martin Krzywdzinski, Hendrik Send in Human Resources • 11 min read
The future of work remains hybrid. But tracking every keystroke, mouse movement and email is not the best way to manage the more fluid boundaries, argue Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Sonja Köhne, Thomas...
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July 13, 2022 in CEO Dialogue podcast series • 1 min read • Podcast available
Ping An Co-CEO Jessica Tan tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how a Chinese insurance company was transformed into a tech giant...
The paradox of power: to serve myself or others?
July 12, 2022 • by George Kohlrieser in Leadership • 5 min read
Leaders must strike the right balance between their own needs and the needs of others....
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What’s really behind the sputtering supply of talent?
July 8, 2022 • by Frederik Anseel in Human Resources • 4 min read
If every country faces the same record tight labor market, then local policy failure may not be the cause....
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July 7, 2022 in Management Cast • 1 min read • Podcast available
In this episode of ManagementCast, Professor Amit Joshi discusses how firms can prepare for a future with Artificial Intelligence....
Drive hard into the future and don’t look back
July 6, 2022 • by Howard Yu in Innovation • 7 min read
The urge to return to business-as-usual must be resisted. Commitment to change and innovation is more important than ever, explain Howard Yu and his colleagues at IMD’s Center for Future Readiness...
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