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2026 AI trends: What leaders need to know to stay competitive

December 26, 2025 • by Mark J. Greeven, José Parra Moyano, Michael R. Wade, Amit M. Joshi, Jialu Shan, Didier Bonnet, Robert Hooijberg in Artificial Intelligence • 8 min read

Is your organization AI-ready? IMD professors and researchers predict 2026 trends in artificial intelligence. Read on and prepare to innovate – or be left behind. ...

In 2026, what matters to luxury brands is not what will happen, it’s how they adapt

December 23, 2025 • by Stéphane J. G. Girod in Consumer Goods • 10 min read

The strategies that drove the recent luxury boom are now its constraint. As demand polarizes and competition intensifies, growth must be constructed, not expected....

China’s 2026 playbook: Redefining global tech, industry, and governance

December 22, 2025 • by Mark J. Greeven in Asian hub • 8 min read

As China enters its 15th Five-Year Plan period in 2026, its push to hardwire innovation, resilience, and security into economic strategy marks a turning point. From vertical AI and regionalized industry clusters...

Stay or go? The career dilemma at year’s end

December 19, 2025 • by José Caballero, Silke Mischke in Talent • 5 min read

With hiring slowing and workers wary of losing pay or flexibility, many people are weighing whether to move jobs or hold steady. Two IMD experts debate the risks and rewards of quitting...

Connecting every corner of South Africa

December 19, 2025 in Featured content • 5 min read

South Africa is building a national digital highway to close the divide—bringing affordable, reliable broadband to underserved communities and every citizen by 2030....

Workplace trends for 2026: Preparing for the new labor market reality

December 18, 2025 • by Bettina Schaller Bossert in Talent • 8 min read

Organizations in 2026 must cope with workplace flexibility demands, inclusion imperatives, agentic AI job displacement, workforce AI training gaps, and talent mobility restrictions while building resilient human capital strategies....

How to read your risk barometer (for better decision-making under pressure)

December 18, 2025 • by Francesca-Giulia Mereu in Brain Circuits • 4 min read

Tired? Stressed? Important deadline looming? Your brain doesn’t just soldier on unchanged – it responds in ways you may not even notice. This means that your inner state is quietly influencing every...

Longevity: Three trends that redefine how we live and work

December 17, 2025 • by Nele Dael, Alyson Meister in Competitiveness • 12 min read

The idea of a three-stage life – school, work, retirement – is rapidly being pensioned off. Here we explore the options for a world where people will routinely live in good health...

How to process feedback without getting defensive

December 17, 2025 • by Winter Nie in Leadership • 8 min read

You need feedback to fuel leadership growth, but it can feel hard and awkward to receive. Here are four essential tips to turn input into opportunities to learn and grow, without getting...

Is a lack of trust costing you? How a culture operating system separates winners from losers

December 17, 2025 • by Susanne May in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Most companies approach culture like they’re trying to boil the ocean: vague values, inspiring speeches, and fingers crossed that something changes. Susanne May highlights the pitfalls of a lack of organizational trust...

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EVs accelerate the great automotive rewiring

December 16, 2025 • by Mark J. Greeven, Mike Colias in I by IMD Book Club • 8 min read

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...

What’s on your mind: the most-read brain circuits of 2025

December 16, 2025 in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Our regular series of short articles on the most pressing issues of the moment attracted a good deal of attention this year. Here are the 10 you viewed the most – including...

Gripped by uncertainty? How to unfreeze through experimentation

December 16, 2025 • by Amy Bonsall, Alyson Meister in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Steps that are too big can paralyze us. Sometimes we avoid taking action because decisions feel too uncertain or too risky and we choke or “freeze”, making action impossible. In the second...