HR needs an AI game plan
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How to achieve work-life balance: Lessons from family enterprises
The blurring of work and personal lives is creating stress, exhaustion, and confusion for leaders. We explore how enterprising families create healthy boundaries between the two worlds and thrive....
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Geographical location – or helping to create it – dictates companies’ success
To boost company performance, executives must support the competitiveness of their countries and embrace public-private collaboration to help articulate and implement national strategy, say IMD Professors Arturo Bris and Phil Rosenzweig....
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Maintaining market position with Seán Meehan
April 28, 2022 in Management Cast • 1 min read • 
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In episode 3 of ManagementCast, Professor Seán Meehan describes the pitfalls of pursuing customer-centricity, and how to avoid them...
A pipeline of women leaders is needed across all career stages
Society must take action to change gender norms and encourage more girls to study STEM subjects if we are to improve the pipeline of women tech talent and leaders said Heather Cairns-Lee,...
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Five steps to increase the integrity of corporate net zero pledges
Corporate net zero strategies lack teeth, say IMD experts. To translate pledges into action, firms must commit to realistic intermediary targets, rethink their value chains and shift to a long-term mindset....
Find your inner mountaineer to hit the heights of leadership
April 19, 2022 • by Vincent Bieri in Leadership • 7 min read
Vincent Bieri, the co-founder of Swiss Unicorn Nexthink and a long-term advisor and investor in startups, explains the mountaineering skills needed to reach the highest peaks of business leadership....
How should leaders manage hybrid working relationships?
April 18, 2022 • by Karin Sanders, Andrew Dhaenens, Patrick Sharry in Management • 5 min read
Organizations and their leaders need to adapt to new ways of working and hybrid work relationships....
‘A supply chain is as strong as its weakest link’
As we move towards a world of more constrained supply, companies will have to shift their focus to designing products and services around what is available and working more closely with suppliers...
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Three paradoxes luxury brands face in the digital era
April 14, 2022 • by Hannes Gurzki in Luxury • 6 min read
Extending products and experiences into the digital world and using consumer insights to personalize the interactions will help luxury brands maintain exclusivity and stimulate consumers' fantasies in the digital age....
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The theory of equality will change the workplace forever
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How Mars CEO Poul Weihrauch is future- proofing the legacy of one of the world’s largest family-owned companies
Mars CEO Poul Weihrauch shares how family ownership enables long-term thinking, purpose-driven leadership, and sustainable growth across generations....
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The Tolaram family enterprise on building and sustaining a legacy over 75 years
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Historian-turned-business-professor Martin Gutmann talks to IMD’s Howard Yu....
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