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What competitiveness requires now
How can leaders stay competitive amid geopolitical uncertainty? David Bach explores resilience, AI, energy security, trust and European reform...
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Building a company from scratch out of the most unlikely place
Mate Rimac founded an electric supercar company in Croatia – a country with no automotive industry or start-up culture – when he was still a teenager, and against all odds, grew it...
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Materiality: from reporting requirement to strategic insight
In the fifth of a series of practical guides for organizations on sustainability, Julia Binder, IMD’s Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, explains how to carry out a materiality assessment –...
LVMH takes pride in fashioning an inclusive culture
June 24, 2023 • by Heather Cairns-Lee in Audio articles • 7 min read
Vanessa Moungar, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at LVMH, tells Heather Cairns-Lee how luxury brands can ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to supporting the LGBTQ+ community....
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Balancing the yin and yang of AI for the benefit of all
June 23, 2023 • by Jérôme Duberry in Audio articles • 9 min read
As the use of AI becomes more widespread, so does the need to ensure that the positives benefit us all, and the risks do not undermine our rights and freedoms....
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Quantum computing: The tech revolution that wasn’t
June 22, 2023 • by Michael R. Wade, Amit Joshi in Mike & Amit Talk Tech • 2 min read • 
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Amit Joshi & Mike Wade discuss why quantum computing now faces an engineering problem, and what the future holds for lightspeed processing power...
Generative AI: go ahead, but proceed with caution
June 22, 2023 • by Amit Joshi in Audio articles • 6 min read
Now that the dust is starting to settle on the hype surrounding ChatGPT, how can executives leverage generative AI tools without overshooting or falling foul of the pitfalls?...
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Want to become a truly inclusive leader? Follow the five Cs
June 19, 2023 • by Alyson Meister in Audio articles • 11 min read
Alyson Meister, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD, explains the importance of what she calls the ‘five Cs’ and how to integrate them into your own leadership practice....
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The changing role of the data scientist – from astronaut to race-car driver
To unlock commercial value from their data, businesses have been scrambling to hire data scientists, who are in short supply. Could many of their skills and activities be commoditized?...
Why does allyship matter? with Professor Robert Hooijberg
June 15, 2023 • by Robert Hooijberg in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 3 min read • Podcast available
In this in-depth interview, Professor Hooijberg talks about the importance of allyship, how to support family, friends, and colleagues in the face of adversity, and the pride he feels for his son...
How the triple bottom line can add impact to your family firm’s philanthropy
June 14, 2023 • by Malgorzata Smulowitz in Family business • 6 min read
Two family business owners share how a focus on profit, people, and planet has helped increase the impact of their families’ philanthropic efforts....
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Lessons from easyJet on how to make your startup take off
More than 20-years after his best-selling case study on easyJet was first published, Nirmalya Kumar reflects on the decisions and actions that helped the startup grow into one of Europe’s leading low-cost...
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The business case for social capital
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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.
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AI and the CSO: 7 ways to drive competitive advantage
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