Hong Kong: a city on hold
Hong Kong's core business strengths remain despite all it has gone through in the last three years, says Tara Joseph, the outgoing head of the city’s American Chamber of Commerce....
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July 3, 2026 • by Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa in Geopolitics • 5 min read
Digital sovereignty in Europe remains more rhetoric than reality. Closing the gap requires industrial capacity, not just regulation....
Continue readingFebruary 25, 2022 • by Salvatore Cantale in I by IMD Book Club • 8 min read
An award-winning book on business model innovation helps leaders engineer their way to success by reframing their businesses in today’s virtual setting...
February 25, 2022 • by Ivan Miroshnychenko, Alfredo De Massis in Brain Circuits • 1 min read
Businesses can learn from successful family businesses. Challenge your conventional thinking with this exercise....
February 24, 2022 • by Arturo Bris in Brain Circuits • 1 min read
A lot of time is spent measuring the success of companies, through profits, productivity, and growth, but are we getting it right?...
February 24, 2022 • by Stéphane J. G. Girod in Luxury • 7 min read
Luxury firms can strategize to find that sweet point between growth and a positive social and environmental impact, says Professor Stéphane J.G. Girod...
February 24, 2022 • by Öykü Işık, Amit Joshi, Ina Toegel, Oscar Stege Unger in CEO Circle • 6 min read
Striking innovations, including in artificial intelligence, are redefining the way employers engage with employees, creating a host of issues around privacy and control...
February 23, 2022 in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Brain circuits How to better understand the effects of your leadership Published 23 February 2022 in Brain circuits • 4 min read As a leader your actions elicit reactions from all members...
February 23, 2022 • by Karl Schmedders in CEO Circle • 3 min read
As the era of ultra-loose monetary policy ends imminently, corporates will need to act wisely and carefully to navigate a treacherous landscape....
February 22, 2022 • by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Success can breed complacency. If your organization has grown and entered the sphere of established incumbents, you should beware of inertia....
February 21, 2022 • by Arturo Bris in Finance • 3 min read
It is unfair to jump to conclusions about illegal practices at Credit Suisse, says Professor Arturo Bris...
February 21, 2022 in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Stakeholders are demanding companies get serious about their ESG goals, so before you craft your strategy, learn what is required....
February 21, 2022 • by Juliet Bourke in Human Resources • 6 min read
What are the two common assumptions around diversity of thinking that need to be challenged within organizations?...
February 18, 2022 in Human Resources • 6 min read
One Peruvian company has grown a leading agribusiness while nurturing the health of communities and fostering female employment at the same time....
February 18, 2022 in Brain Circuits • 2 min read
Successful leaders skillfully navigate conflict and negotiations in a positive way. These exercises will put those skills to the test....
February 17, 2022 • by Carlos Cordon in Supply chain • 5 min read
Restrictions and lockdowns herald even worse disruption for 2022. Multinationals should rethink operations to deal with disruption to manufacturing capacity....
February 16, 2022 • by Ralf Seifert, Olov H. D. Isaksson in CEO Circle • 5 min read
The bullwhip has captured headlines during the pandemic, but the problem has been wreaking havoc on supply chains for decades. Traditional strategies to crack the bullwhip have largely failed. Now, a new...
February 16, 2022 • by Heather Cairns-Lee in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 4 min read
The best way to foster inclusion is by addressing the ableist bias in your own behavior....
February 16, 2022 • by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
We studied companies that have enjoyed longevity of more than 50 years to understand what they do differently. Those that experience healthy long lives demonstrate what we call strategic incumbency....
February 16, 2022 • by Stefan Michel in CEO Circle • 3 min read
Consumer psychology is key when passing on costs: maintaining profit is considered fair but increasing profit is not....
February 15, 2022 • by Didier Bonnet, Michael R. Wade in Innovation • 8 min read
In an I by IMD interview, Barbara Martin Coppola, Chief Digital Officer of IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) explains how she is helping to take the company, famous for its out-of-town stores and...

Former ING and UBS CEO Ralph Hamers on leading “banking’s biggest digital transformation” – and why AI may redefine financial advice.

NATO futurist Florence Gaub on war, weak signals, Gen Z, and why leaders need not only foresight, but also science fiction to future-proof their organizations

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on why the post-Cold War world is over – and who is shaping the new rules of global business

Discover how bonding and bridging capital fuel change. Insights from Raising Social Capital show why trust is your company’s hidden engine

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 scalable by making it an enabler of innovation and growth.

Niels B. Christiansen tells Jean-François Manzoni how he streamlined the leadership and targeted adult customers to re-energize the toy giant.

Leaders are conditioned to leap into action to meet challenges. But what if remaining calm and simply listening is what the people around you need in such moments?

Trust is foundational in leadership, yet is more of a science than an art. Answer the questions below to assess whether an absence of trust is affecting your leadership.

Master Cultural Calibration: open mind, explicit norms, and regular alignment to keep cross-border collaboration clear and productive.

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