Navigating the data-driven landscape: the role of ambidextrous leadership
Leveraging real-world data can be transformative, and leaders need to both transform their core activities and pursue new opportunities....
13 May 2025 • by Luca Condosta in Business Leaders • 3 min read
The CDO, formerly a figurehead for regulatory compliance, is now a key driver of company strategy. Luca Condosta describes the essential skills that CDOs require to turn DE&I concepts into actual commercial...
Continue reading16 October 2023 • by Mohan Subramaniam , Richard Roi in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Leveraging real-world data can be transformative, and leaders need to both transform their core activities and pursue new opportunities....
26 September 2023 • by Anita Sundby in Business Leaders • 8 min read
Anita Sundby flew high in a male-dominated, workaholic corporate world before her company let her go without any explanation. Now, having interviewed dozens of former CEOs, she offers advice on how to...
8 September 2023 • by Susan Goldsworthy in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Insights into the urgent need for a mind shift in leadership, as well as dispelling myths, addressing psychological barriers and fostering a growth-mindset for a brighter future. ...
22 August 2023 • by Frédéric Dalsace in Business Leaders • 6 min read
Your customers can tell you everything you need to know to build your business, says Professor Frédéric Dalsace of IMD provided you pick the right ones to learn from ...
12 July 2023 in Business Leaders • 7 min read
Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, in an interview with I by IMD at the St Gallen Symposium, implored business leaders to stop taking their democratic freedoms for granted and to look...
11 May 2023 • by Michael R. Wade in Business Leaders • 7 min read
We need a new type of leader for the digital age says Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy & Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. However, they should not discard their...
28 April 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Business Leaders • 7 min read
The sheer scale of the carnage from the bubonic plague gave the surviving workforce in the Middle Ages undreamt of bargaining power. While far less severe, the effects of COVID-19 combined with...
21 April 2023 • by Albrecht Enders in Business Leaders • 11 min read
Vocal leadership consultant Robin De Haas explains to Albrecht Enders how executives can achieve greater influence and avoid miscommunication by learning to coordinate the muscles involved in breathing and creating sounds....
20 April 2023 in Business Leaders • 6 min read
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022, Taras Panasenko (IMD EMBA 2023), CEO and co-founder of dollar store chain Avrora, was plunged into crisis mode. Then he decided to expand his...
6 April 2023 • by John R. Weeks in Business Leaders • 10 min read
STADA CEO Peter Goldschmidt on instilling an entrepreneurial ethos to help STADA outperform its peers and making growth mindset a strategic priority....
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