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19 hours ago • by Goutam Challagalla, Frédéric Dalsace in Sustainability • 10 min read • Audio available
Innovation, value creation, and improved performance should replace ‘virtue signaling’ and ill-defined ‘purpose’, argue Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace...
Continue readingSeptember 27, 2021 • by George Kohlrieser in Leadership • 3 min read
Awareness, acceptance and action – these are the three vital steps needed to make sure that you can perform at your optimum....
September 24, 2021 • by John R. Weeks in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Your office design may have a bigger impact on innovation than you think....
September 24, 2021 • by Knut Haanaes, Martin Reeves in I by IMD Book Club • 6 min read
In this interactive webinar, Martin Reeves, Chairman of Boston Consulting Group's Henderson Institute, discusses his book The Imagination Machine with Knut Haanaes....
September 24, 2021 • by John Elkington, Sonja Haut in Finance • 11 min read
Negative screening is well established among ESG and other impact investors, involving the avoidance of downside exposures, but the next generation will demand far more positive results....
September 23, 2021 • by Natalia Olynec in Book Review • 4 min read
A recent series of books provide a detailed roadmap to sustainability through a mixture of bold thinking and practical steps. Here are the ones on our reading list....
September 23, 2021 • by Peter Vogel in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
Through years of research and working closely with family-owned businesses we have identified five areas that capture the focus of successful and long-lasting family enterprises. Are you giving sufficient attention to each?...
September 23, 2021 • by Jim Pulcrano, Patrick Reinmoeller in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
Jim and Patrick look into Airports. How they operate, and what the future holds for these magical portals to global travel...
September 22, 2021 • by Knut Haanaes in Magazine • 10 min read
The world’s topsoil is badly eroded and there may be only 60 harvests left. But solutions are at hand, says Geraldine Matchett of nutrition company Royal DSM....
September 22, 2021 • by Alyson Meister in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
There are more people trying to hold down a job while struggling with chronic illness than you may think. While this is an intensely private issue, there are things leaders can do...
September 21, 2021 • by Patrick Reinmoeller, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 6 min read
Should Germany’s Green party score a big enough share of the vote in a federal election on 26 September to enter the next coalition government, business should embrace the opportunity to accelerate...
September 21, 2021 • by Amanda Williams, Gail Whiteman, John N. Parker in Magazine • 12 min read
The UN set ambitious targets to clean up the world by 2030, but business leaders need to do more to make them a reality....
September 21, 2021 • by Peter Vogel in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
A healthy business has an ownership group that is emotionally connected, well informed and capable of taking responsible decisions in the interests of various stakeholder groups....
September 20, 2021 • by Eva Zabey in Leadership • 7 min read
The destruction of natural ecosystems poses major risks for businesses and could wipe $10 trillion from the global economy. The time to act is running out....
September 20, 2021 • by Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 4 min read
Anyone who demands that environmental damage should be priced into services and goods today is far from being a socialist. They are just canny, calculating capitalists....
September 17, 2021 • by Patrick Reinmoeller in Leading in Turbulent Times • 4 min read
As economies reopen after lockdown many organizations are finding the competitive landscape has shifted beneath their feet....
September 17, 2021 • by Robert Hooijberg, Michael D. Watkins in Human Resources • 2 min read
Much of the conversation about hybrid work focuses on striking the right balance between the in-person and virtual modes. And we, too, have begun to explore the differences in how leaders need...
September 16, 2021 • by Bettina Büchel in Human Resources • 6 min read
Employees are pushing up pay and conditions — but filling vacancies will mean creating a new corporate culture...




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February 23, 2026 • by Ginka Toegel in Videos
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