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Meet your Program Directors and faculty

Program Directors

Our Program Directors are recognized world authorities in their fields. Dividing their time between teaching, research, and working with international companies, they remain on top of the latest management trends. You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials, and content in all IMD programs.

Driving Strategic Innovation is offered jointly by IMD and MIT Sloan. This powerful alliance, which began in 2003, is designed and led by IMD Professor Bill Fischer and MIT Sloan Professor Charles Fine, award-winning faculty members and world authorities in their fields. You will get to work with both of them during this fully immersive learning experience.

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Bill Fischer

IMD Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management

Bill Fischer specializes in the art and practice of successful innovation, and the effective expression of talent. An engineer by training, American and Swiss by citizenship, and New Yorker by birth and attitude, Bill has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He co-founded the IMD partnership program on Driving Strategic Innovation in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Named as “one of the most influential business tweeters” by UK newspaper The Independent, he is also one of InnovationExcellence.com’s Top 50 Innovation Tweeters and InnovationManagement.com’s Top 40 Innovation Bloggers.

Charles Fine

MIT Sloan Professor of Operations Management

Charles Fine is the Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Since 2015 he has also served as CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia School of Business (in Kuala Lumpur), established in collaboration with MIT Sloan.

His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular focus on fast-clockspeed manufacturing industries. His work has supported design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products.

Jim Pulcrano

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management

Jim Pulcrano is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management. He has extensive expertise in entrepreneurship, particularly startup culture, strategy, customer centricity, marketing, and disruption. A former Executive Director at IMD, Pulcrano runs the annual IMD Startup Competition and teaches entrepreneurship courses for Innosuisse, th…

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Duncan Simester

Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Duncan Simester is a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he holds the NTU Chair in Management Science and is the Chair of the MIT Evening MBA Task Force. He is an expert on how economics and artificial intelligence can contribute to the understanding and practice of marketing and strategy.

Howard Yu

LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation

Howard Yu, hailing from Hong Kong, is LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD. He leads the Center for Future Readiness, founded in 2020 with support from the LEGO Brand Group, to guide companies through strategic transformation. Recognized globally for his expertise, in 2023 he was honored with the Thinkers50 Strategy Award, recogn…

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