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    Goutam Challagalla

    Program Director

    Goutam Challagalla is a Professor of Strategy and Marketing, specializing in digital and sustainability transformations.

    Goutam Challagalla

    Program Director

    Goutam Challagalla is a Professor of Strategy and Marketing, specializing in digital and sustainability transformations.

    Meet your Advanced Management Program Director

    Goutam Challagalla’s strategy-centred teaching, consulting, and research focus on digital transformation, business-to-business commercial management, value-based pricing, sales management, distribution channels, and customer and service excellence.

    Professor Challagalla has worked with clients in numerous sectors, including life sciences, agribusiness, technology/semi-conductors, manufacturing, chemicals, telecom, health care, FMCG, and professional services firms.

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    Goutam Challagalla’s publications
    Four sustainability strategies for your brand
    By Goutam Challagalla, Frédéric Dalsace

    How do the brand sustainability strategies of Tony’s Chocolonely, Nespresso, Volvo and Vanish differ? And how can executives know which strategy to adopt?

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    In the field with Coesia: Choosing the right operating model and organizational structure to create a global group
    By Goutam Challagalla, Valerie Keller-Birrer

    Coesia is a privately-owned group of industrial and packaging solutions companies based in Bologna, Italy. The group, active in various product categories, went through a two-phase transformation journey when Isabella Seràgnoli became the full own…

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    Transformation journeys: The Reasons why and the art of how
    By Jean-François Manzoni, Albrecht Enders, Anand Narasimhan, Thomas W. Malnight, Bettina Büchel, Goutam Challagalla, Ivy Buche, Lars Häggström

    How leading multinationals across industries have managed change in their environment and executed significant transformation to stay ahead of the game.

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    India’s economic agenda, progressing or regressing? Navigating success
    By Charles Dhanaraj, Thomas W. Malnight, Anand Narasimhan, Goutam Challagalla, Ivy Buche

    A Discovery Event in June 2015 stimulated discussion of the broad changes in the Indian economic landscape as the Narendra Modi-led reform-minded, pro-business government completed its first year in office. A panel of speakers took stock, both at …

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    Contributing Faculty

    IMD’s Advanced Management Program is delivered to you by a world-class faculty of professors, to bring you the richest of real-world application and latest thought leadership.

    Cyril Bouquet
    Cyril Bouquet
    Professor of Strategy and Innovation
    Cyril Bouquet is Professor of Strategy and Innovation. He specializes in helping organizations and executives to tackle complex challenges through innovation and creativity. An award-winning researcher and teacher, he supports organizations on significant transition journeys as they seek to create change and deliver progress for society. Challen…
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    Salvatore Cantale
    Professor of Finance
    Salvatore Cantale is Professor of Finance. His academic and consulting work is divided into two different but complementary streams. First, he works at the intersection between strategy, business models, and financial results. He also sheds light on the relationship between ESG and finance, with the aim of increasing the understanding of how ESG po…
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    Arnaud Chevallier
    Professor of Strategy
    Arnaud Chevallier is Professor of Strategy. He helps executives solve complex problems and make better decisions under uncertainty. His research, teaching and consulting draw on empirical findings from diverse disciplines to provide concrete tools that prepare executives to manage the strategic challenges they face in today’s dynamic global marke…
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    Ralf Seifert
    Professor of Operations Management
    Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. His work lies at the heart of one of the most important topics currently facing organizations, as supply chains come under strain due to multiple global changes. He has also wo…
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    Ina Toegel
    Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change
    Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical backgr…
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    Howard Yu
    LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation
    Howard Yu is LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation and heads IMD’s Center for Future Readiness. He specializes in technological innovation, strategic transformation, and change management. Author of the award-winning best-seller LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, he was named by Poets&Quants as one of the w…
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