Nesta’s Lisa Barclay seeks returns on impact investingÂ
Impact investor Lisa Barclay explains how Nesta is building a virtuous circle of investment in UK startups....
27 February 2024 in Purpose • 9 min read
Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni why he has remained laser focused on implementing its purposeful growth agenda and why the company decided to exit Russia. ...
Continue reading19 December 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Purpose • 7 min read
Impact investor Lisa Barclay explains how Nesta is building a virtuous circle of investment in UK startups....
28 September 2023 • by Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert, Shih-Han Huang in Purpose • 11 min read
There is a growing need to provide executives with the tools to take a more integrated approach to impact and business – and to change mindsets when it comes to financial decision-making. The impact...
17 August 2023 • by Heather Cairns-Lee in Purpose • 11 min read • Podcast available
Olympian Rebecca Wardell tells Heather Cairns-Lee how a 20,000 km bike ride from Lausanne to New Zealand taught her the importance of managing her mindset, resilience, teamwork, and the kindness of strangers...
28 June 2023 • by Dominic Alldis in Purpose • 6 min read
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....
18 October 2022 in Purpose • 7 min read
In a CEO Dialogue with IMD President Jean-François Manzoni, Ipsen CEO David Loew discusses his leadership style as he orchestrates the French-born pharma firm’s response to its best-selling drug facing generic...
27 July 2022 • by Ivy Buche in Purpose • 7 min read
Consumers want companies to go further in addressing issues that affect wider society. For those willing to do so, a marketing-led competitive advantage is up for grabs....
24 June 2021 in Purpose • 1 min read • Podcast available
“Solar Impulse” explorer Bertrand Piccard on finding purpose. As an explorer, Bertrand Piccard has always had a strong sense of purpose. But now he finds he has a gift for helping other...
14 April 2021 • by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche in Purpose • 3 min read
An organization’s purpose is too often segregated from strategy and associated with long-term rather than short-term gains, impeding future success....
8 April 2021 • by Thomas W. Malnight in Purpose • 3 min read
Competition for new growth and opportunity is fierce and relentless. In this fight, business leaders are often left puzzled as to why their strategies, the result of arduous planning and painstaking research,...
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