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Incentivizing innovation: How family firms prepare for the future

July 20, 2023 • by Alfredo De Massis, Kimberly A. Eddleston, Elisa Villani, Christian Linder in Family business • 7 min read

Family-owned businesses, be they modernizers or guardians of their past, can be successful innovators – providing they can assemble an appropriate package of incentives...

Four lessons from women’s football for advancing gender equality

July 19, 2023 • by Heather Cairns-Lee, Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Corinne Post in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 7 min read

As the FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off, we examine how the sports world can teach us to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in business...

Cyber security: how to fortify the software supply chain

July 18, 2023 • by Öykü Işık in Strategy • 6 min read

Increased IT integration between companies and suppliers has introduced new vulnerabilities. How can organizations prepare for the staggering rise in breaches through third-party vendors? ...

How can you apply AI in your organization?

July 18, 2023 in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Follow this simple framework to figure out where AI can best be deployed to free up your employees for more complex, creative, and value-added tasks....

Strategies to help women thrive as leaders

July 17, 2023 • by Ginka Toegel in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 7 min read

As more women take up leadership positions, the generalization that we lack confidence is cracking. And yet, as old stereotypes are challenged by new realities, some crucial misperceptions remain concerning the appearance...

China: What comes next when ideology trumps the economy?

July 17, 2023 • by Jörg Wuttke in Asian hub • 6 min read

China’s economy may be coming back to life, but many headaches remain for foreign business in the country, says Joerg Wuttke, president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China until May...

How visible is disability in the DE&I conversation?

July 14, 2023 • by Rebecca Swift in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 6 min read

Almost one in five people globally live with a disability, yet they make up less than 1% of the people shown in marketing and advertising material. In the latest installment of our...

To understand geopolitics, follow one company

July 14, 2023 • by David Bach in Audio articles • 6 min read

Most businesses are affected by geopolitics, but few can claim the reverse – that they can shape geopolitical dynamics. TSMC, Taiwan’s leading semiconductor manufacturer, is one of them....

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Organizational innovation will be as important as technological innovation

July 14, 2023 • by Didier Bonnet in Innovation • 6 min read

To become fully digital businesses, companies will have to overhaul ways of working to become simpler, more adaptive, and empower front-line decision-making, says Didier Bonnet....

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Marketing was the child of globalization but will be the parent of sustainability

July 13, 2023 • by Frédéric Dalsace in Governance • 6 min read

Marketing often gets a bad rap due to its association with the excesses of capitalism, but it can play an important role in driving more sustainable business practices and consumption patterns, says...

Even as you prepare your businesses to become an AI-amplified organization, it’s vital that you anticipate the broader economic and social implications of these technologies

The executive’s guide to generative AI

July 13, 2023 • by Michael D. Watkins, Ralf Weissbeck in Innovation • 13 min read

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technological tsunami. Business leaders and their organizations either need to learn to ride this wave of change or risk being swept away. In this article, we...

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How to build a positive "stress mindset", with Alyson Meister

July 13, 2023 • by Alyson Meister in Management Cast • 2 min read • Podcast available

Alyson Meister discusses positive attitudes to stress, how to use threats to your advantage, and ways of turning pressure into constructive energy...

Don’t put profit before freedom, activist warns business leaders

July 12, 2023 in Leadership • 7 min read

Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, in an interview with I by IMD at the St Gallen Symposium, implored business leaders to stop taking their democratic freedoms for granted and to look...

How to avoid an own goal when defining limits of free speech

July 11, 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Audio articles • 6 min read

The lines between our public, professional, and private lives – and opinions – have blurred in the age of social media. How can organizations manage the tension between freedom of expression and...