Amid rising demand from customers, employees and investors, companies have moved sustainability to the top of their agendas. In Issue III, we explore how leaders are transforming their industries today to avoid disaster.
IMD’s AI Safety Clock shows tension between rapidly expanding artificial intelligence capabilities and lack of meaningful oversight, raising risk.
AI may become one of the most significant leadership opportunities for women in decades. Its impact will depend on how capability, governance, and leadership are built around it.
Societe Generale CEO Slawomir Krupa on turnaround decisions, fintech pressure, and why long-term discipline beats short-term noise.
CFO Raphael Savalle explores how finance leaders can unite sustainability, AI, and human leadership to drive strategy in a fast-changing world.
The value of data lies in combining and analyzing a proprietary strategic core with models that predict outcomes and prescribe responses, argues Misiek Piskorski.
Circularity has evolved from a waste reduction tactic into a strategic driver of business value, helping companies secure resources, manage risk, and deliver superior customer outcomes in an increasingly volatile world.”
Research indicates that 14% of companies report net positive effects from political risks that disrupted competitors, creating market openings to capitalize on temporary dislocations and long-term shifts in global trade patterns. Simon J Evenett and Oliver Jones show how to navigate geopolitical volatility and turn uncertainty into competitive advantage.
Milda Mitkute shares lessons from scaling second-hand clothes business Vinted into Lithuania’s first unicorn, and launching a new startup to make maths education more engaging and accessible for children.
Workplace silos are a huge productivity inhibitor. Casper Herzberg, CEO of industrial software company AVEVA, tells Michael Wade how radical collaboration can create value.
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 have a reputation for being argumentative, judgmental, overly critical, and micromanaging, they may avoid collaborating with you and advise others to follow suit – and even encourage clients to take their business elsewhere.
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 Club webinar, almost three and a half billion people globally play games today, which is why every organization needs a gaming strategy.
Drawing on his recent IMD podcast with Amar Bhidé, IMD Professor of Management Stefan Michel debunks longstanding misconceptions about entrepreneurship.
A new report explores how industrial AI is helping organizations realize their sustainability goals. With new data from over 200 senior executives and expert insights - from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, ETH AI Center, TU Berlin and more - the report provides an in-depth analysis of the current and projected impact of industrial AI accelerating transformative change.
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