Sustainability

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How does sustainable leadership work?

April 17, 2025 • by David Bach, Felix Zeltner in Sustainability • 4 min read • Podcast available

This episode takes you behind the scenes of a recent gathering led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development together with IMD, where David Bach sat down with two sustainability leaders....

Buying your way into entrepreneurship: the dss+ journey

April 16, 2025 • by Benoit F. Leleux in Sustainability • 9 min read

How a private equity-backed corporate carve-out created a successful, sustainable consulting powerhouse...

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Can biodiversity credits alter the landscape for nature conservation?

April 8, 2025 • by Adrian Dellecker in Sustainability • 2 min read • Podcast available

Join Mariana Sarmiento of Terrasos and Adrian Dellecker, a Senior Researcher at IMD, as they discuss commercial prospects in environmental innovation and voluntary biodiversity credits....

Management myth-busters: We do ESG – we don’t need to measure impact

April 3, 2025 • by Sonja Haut in Sustainability • 3 min read

Many companies still believe that compliance with ESG criteria is sufficient to keep regulators and investors happy and ensure business sustainability. Not so, says Sonja Haut, who identifies seven ways in which...

Do you know the environmental cost of GenAI and how to mitigate against it?

April 1, 2025 • by Tomoko Yokoi in Sustainability • 4 min read

CEOs now expect GenAI to transform their businesses – but many underestimate its environmental cost. Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of the environmental impact of GenAI, and read on...

How a new generation of negative electricity prices creates opportunities for consumers

March 27, 2025 • by Robert Earle, Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 7 min read

Subsidies for renewables have led to electricity prices frequently falling to less than zero, creating opportunities for consumers....

6 things you need to know about the Cali Fund

March 25, 2025 • by Adrian Dellecker in Sustainability • 3 min read

Launched in February 2025, the Cali Fund of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is set to mobilize new streams of private-sector funding for biodiversity. It is expected to raise roughly $1bn per...

From advocate to innovator: 6 ways the CSO role is evolving

March 21, 2025 • by Natalia Olynec in Sustainability • 6 min read

Once viewed as corporate activists championing green initiatives, today’s CSOs are business integrators – balancing financial performance with societal impact....

3 ways for businesses to adopt a circular model

March 10, 2025 • by Carlos Cordon in Sustainability • 2 min read

Companies need a new, holistic approach to sustainability if they are to head off criticism and accusations of greenwashing. Carlos Cordon outlines three potential pathways to a circular business model....

Surfing the tsunami: Aligning leadership thinking in a turbulent business environment

March 7, 2025 • by Michael D. Watkins in Sustainability • 8 min read

To ride the daunting wave of global economic change, CEOs must first understand their operating environment and then ensure the priorities of their leadership team are aligned, advises IMD’s Michael Watkins...

What if Europe’s biggest risk isn’t war – but running out of power?