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How to succeed as an enterprise co-pilot: Three priorities for the modern CFO

February 24, 2026 • by I by IMD in CFO Horizons • 5 min read

Schindler CFO Carla De Geyseleer explains how today’s CFO acts as a strategic co-pilot, uses sustainability to drive growth, and develops future finance leaders....

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The confidence myth holding women back at work

February 23, 2026 • by Ginka Toegel in Videos • 9 min read

In her latest book, The Confidence Myth, IMD Professor Ginka Toegel examines why confidence is so often misinterpreted at work – and how organizational systems shape who is seen as confident and...

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Building a healthy community creates a healthy society

February 23, 2026 • by Gladys Moran in Wellness • 4 min read

The physical, mental, and emotional well-being of your people is an often overlooked metric that will lead to improved results for your organization, suggests Gladys Moran...

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Sustainability is dead – true or false?

February 23, 2026 • by Julia Binder in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

Myths abound when it comes to corporate sustainability. Can you tell fact from fiction? Test your knowledge on the common misconceptions here....

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Growing longevity market needs new types of leaders

February 20, 2026 • by Jennifer Borrer, Lisa Casper, Saule Serikova in Leadership • 10 min read

The fast-growing sector needs a unique leadership archetype to realize its full potential. After interviewing key players in the industry, senior executives at WittKieffer offer a blueprint for success....

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Why you need to agree to disagree

February 20, 2026 • by Nathalie Ducrot in Coaching Corner • 5 min read

Elizabeth faces a career crossroads and works with a coach to clarify her ambitions, negotiate her future, and harness the power of constructive disagreement...

Navigating uncharted waters: Wärtsilä’s journey to decarbonize global shipping and energy

February 19, 2026 • by Julia Binder, Esther Salvi in Best Practice in Sustainable Business Transformation • 9 min read

Wärtsilä is reengineering shipping and energy, balancing future fuels, regulation, and real-world infrastructure to turn decarbonization from ambition into action....

Are you leveraging AI learning or competing with it?

February 19, 2026 • by Michael D. Watkins in AI • 3 min read

As AI reshapes business operations, your leadership development efforts must focus on enabling humans to continue to add distinctive value. Michael D. Watkins explains how to use the 75/25% rule to guide...

Entry-level hiring is declining. What could go wrong?

February 19, 2026 • by Robert Hooijberg in Talent • 6 min read

Cutting entry-level roles may save costs today, but it endangers the development of future leaders and the skills organizations will urgently need....

Strategic leapfrogging: Moving past AI maturity models with diagnostic precision

February 18, 2026 • by Faisal Hoque, Paul Scade in Artificial Intelligence • 11 min read

Transform your AI adoption strategy from a high-stakes gamble into a portfolio of calculated moves using this plan, write Faisal Hoque and Paul Scade....

Why your personal brand matters

February 18, 2026 • by Cindy Wolpert in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

How people engage with you is shaped by your brand. If you are known to be reasonable, pragmatic, and strategic, they will want to work with or for you. But if you...

When AI evolves quarterly, but your organization plans annually

February 18, 2026 • by Michael Yaziji in Artificial Intelligence • 7 min read

Organizations should let departments choose the right balance between humans and AI, and focus on outcomes, not rigid processes, to keep pace with rapid technological change. ...

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Endress+Hauser: How to future-proof a 70-year-old market leader

February 17, 2026 • by Goutam Challagalla in I by IMD Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available

Family ownership, strategic paranoia, and integrated sustainability: Matthias Altendorf on future-proofing global market leader Endress+Hauser....

AI and the CSO: Harnessing technology to drive sustainable competitive advantage

February 17, 2026 • by Julia Binder in Artificial Intelligence • 10 min read

CSOs should harness artificial intelligence to embed sustainability at the center of strategy and growth. We explore how the most successful companies are already doing this. ...

Playing for keeps: Why you need a gaming strategy

February 17, 2026 • by Stefan Michel in Brain Circuits • 4 min read

Many of us still equate gaming with dudes playing video games like Grand Theft Auto in a basement. In fact, as Bastian Bergmann told Stefan Michel in a recent I by IMD Book...

How China’s innovation system really works

February 16, 2026 • by Mark J. Greeven in Strategy • 7 min read

As debate grows over whether China is winning the technology race, executives should focus instead on how its innovation system is designed – and what that means for competition....

Four lessons from BYD's rise – and why Tesla should be worried

February 16, 2026 • by Howard H. Yu, Jialu Shan, Lawrence Tempel in Innovation • 11 min read

BYD overtook Tesla’s EV annual market share in 2025 as it mastered unglamorous fundamentals and built capabilities sequentially while competitors chased disruption and moonshots....

The many faces of ‘juan’: How China’s labor evolution shows multinationals the cost of systems built on exhaustion

February 16, 2026 • by Zhike Lei in Human Resources • 11 min read

Some of China’s most profitable companies have thrived by piling pressure on workers – sometimes with tragic results. Zhike Lei outlines how multinationals can design work that avoids burnout and exploitation. ...

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Long live life on earth

February 16, 2026 • by Julia Binder in Sustainability • 9 min read

Our pursuit of longer life cannot happen without a sustainable future for society and the planet. Julia Binder argues that we should target healthier lives for all, rather than for a few...

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Scaling a startup: Why you must focus on the ‘who’ as well as the ‘what’

February 13, 2026 • by David Sluss, Katie Badura, Yufei Zhong in Leadership • 7 min read

Passion for the product is vital to launch a startup, but it’s not enough to lead a scaling enterprise. David Sluss, Katie Badura, and Yufei Zhong share a two-step approach to...