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.
The Swiss-based energy group is plotting a course toward a renewables-focused future, without abandoning its traditional customer base. Here we explore five key principles that have underpinned the company’s success.
As luxury e-commerce enters a new chapter, shifting consumer expectations, rising costs, and mounting sustainability demands are testing the resilience of every player. LuxExperience CEO Michael Kliger shares how it is navigating this future through discipline, loyalty, and a relentless focus on execution.
Despite making the world’s finest pianos, Steinway & Sons has struggled financially. Howard Yu explains what they got wrong and what others like Yamaha, BYD, and Nvidia are getting right.
OpenAI’s research shows AI hallucination is unavoidable. Leaders must adapt strategies, using limits as opportunities for innovation and resilience.
We click on the ‘like’ button seven billion times a day, but the tech pioneers who came up with the idea never saw its true potential. The best innovations are messy, serendipitous, and deeply social, say Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson
Michael Watkins & Brenda Steinberg share strategies in this I by IMD podcast to turn post-summer blues into leadership and personal growth.
Forward-thinking leaders proactively shape their external environment, turn uncertainty into certainty, and create substantial value in the process. In the first of a two-part series, Michael Yaziji explains why nonmarket strategy is a key tool in today’s leadership playbook.
New ideas behind innovative business models can feel sudden, but are rarely random. Innovation happens when you reframe challenges and opportunities. Stefan Michel outlines five ways to unlock breakthrough ideas in your personal and professional life.
Earn the right to be heard by blending credibility with relatability, meeting audiences where they are, and building rapport through shared stories.
Generative AI (GenAI) promises massive transformation, but only if strategy and execution align. After studying 100 GenAI implementations across sectors, we’ve found that most firms fall into four GenAI personas. Each reflects a different balance of risk, ambition, speed, and control. Your firm doesn’t need to be all things, but it does need to know what it is.
Rather than choosing between crisis mode and future planning, leaders should learn to focus simultaneously on both short and long-term goals.
Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most far-reaching technology ever created. Google’s AI business strategist Gopi Kallayil recommends asking yourself three key questions regarding your business strategy and identifies three AI capabilities you need to make it happen.
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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