Why scaling innovation is so damn hard
Harvard’s Linda Hill explains why scaling innovation means leaning into friction, learning to love uncertainty – and knowing when to kill your project....
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Why sustainability leaders need to think like change managers
Former IKEA sustainability chief Pia Heidenmark Cook explains how understanding colleagues’ motivations, equipping people to act and overcoming the barriers to scale can turn sustainability ambitions into business practice....
Windworks: The challenge of turning a novel technology into a viable business
Explore Windworks' breakthrough smart vertical-axis wind turbines and the funding-milestone strategy to turn novel tech into a viable energy business....
How to make the most of a five-generation workforce
Author Rebecca Robins and IMD's Katharina Lange explore why leaders should stop managing generational divides and start making the most of them. ...
The business case for social capital
Discover how bonding and bridging capital fuel change. Insights from Raising Social Capital show why trust is your company's hidden engine...
Rethinking sustainability: Why customer value comes first
A new book challenges the conventional belief that sustainability alone drives customer purchases. In a webinar hosted by Karl Schmedders, the book’s co-author, Goutam Challagalla, explains how companies can make sustainability...
When uncertainty becomes an advantage
Terence Mauri says leaders can turn disruption from a source of risk into a source of opportunity ...
The biggest career barrier isn’t at the top. It’s at the first step
The greatest barrier to women’s advancement emerges early in a career, not at the top. Kweilin Ellingrud examines how the first promotion to manager shapes long-term progression....
The art of thinking in a digital world
IMD’s Professor Knut Haanaes was joined by friend and former Boston Consulting Group colleague, Luc de Brabandere, corporate philosopher and senior advisor at BCG, to discuss his book ‘The Art of Thinking...
EVs accelerate the great automotive rewiring
IMD’s Mark Greeven was joined by Reuters US autos journalist Mike Colias to discuss his new book Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles, which explores how the development of...
Create a place for your customers to play
Gaming has become one of the world’s most powerful consumer ecosystems. Stefan Michel explores why every company now needs a strategy for play to stay competitive. ...
Leadership lessons from Julius Caesar
IMD's Susan Goldsworthy was joined by Paul Vanderbroeck, whose unique book, Lead Like Julius Caesar: Timeless Leadership Lessons from History's Most Influential Leader, dissects the leadership style and career of the Roman...