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The $2 hot dog strategy: Why AI can’t replace five-star service
24 minutes ago • by Howard Yu in Artificial Intelligence • 7 min read • 
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AI is taking the effort out of professional services, and customers know it. Businesses must stop selling billable hours and start delivering unreasonable hospitality, writes Howard Yu....
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How true leaders can build inclusive workplaces, with Misiek Piskorski
June 29, 2023 • by Misiek Piskorski in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 2 min read • 
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In episode three of IMD's Pride Month podcast specials, Piskorski discusses ways to encourage allyship without constraints, how to overcome fear, and what it takes for leaders to reach their full potential....
Musical secrets for truly spectacular performance
How can you give individual players in your team greater autonomy to achieve your company’s goals? Dominic Alldis shares how both classical and jazz quartets work together to deliver excellence....
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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 • Podcast available
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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