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MBA Innovation Week: IMD faculty on how to innovate

From April 23-28, IMD will be running its intensive MBA innovation module. IMD MBAs with participation from students from Écal, the renowned design university, and EPFL, the leading...

People who live in diverse neighbourhoods are more helpful – here’s how we know

By Jayanth Narayanan

Whether or not diversity is a good thing is still a topic of much debate. Though many businesses tout the benefits of diversity, American political scientist Robert Putnam holds that diversity...

Adapting to change: how OWP Singapore helped one participant take on his next challenge

Travelling to Singapore for Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) in November 2017 was, for Akihito, the first time he had experienced such a learning opportunity outside of Japan. Knowing that...

Online privacy must improve after the Facebook data uproar

By Vanina Farber

I, like millions of others, have willingly given up some of my privacy to Facebook to achieve a sense of connection across cultures, time zones and generations. But revelations of the alleged sale...

IMD building strong presence in Silicon Valley

“IMD is well connected to the high tech world and one of the best ways to achieve that is to have a strong presence in the heart of Silicon Valley.” That’s according to Thierry Maupilé...

Spotify goes for gutsy direct listing on stock exchange – here are the winners and losers

By Arturo Bris, Michael R. Wade

When Spotify finally went public on the New York Stock Exchange on April 3 as SPOT, it did so in a very unconventional way. For one thing, there was none of the usual fanfare. The CEO didn’t ring...

Brazil: Has the Future Arrived?

Each year, IMD Business School Executive MBA cohorts get to trek to far-flung emerging markets as part of the Discovery Expedition. After absorbing the vibrant cultures of India and Vietnam, the...

IMD Opens Nominations for IMD Global Family Business Award 2018

Each year since 1996, a leading family business has been honored with IMD Business School’s Global Family Business Award. This year IMD has already kicked off the search for 2018’s winner of...

Leadership and company culture: How can we reconcile performance and benevolence?

The Association for Global Health and Work recently held Module 4 of their conference series on Health and Companies at IMD. The daylong event focused on mental health, ethics, and values from...

Channelling innovation to transform a children’s relief organization

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is a leading Swiss children's rights organization dedicated to child protection, improving children’s health, and crisis intervention worldwide. The organization is...

IMD and Capgemini Consulting research unveils new opportunities and challenges for Pharmaceutical companies

PRESS RELEASE - IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, in collaboration with Capgemini Consulting, released today a report entitled Digital Patient Engagement: Insights for...

Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters’ minds

By Michael R. Wade

The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller: a Bond villain-style CEO, a reclusive billionaire, a naïve and...

IMD hosts equestrian forum

For the seventh consecutive year, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports Forum will be held on IMD’s campus in Lausanne. The event will include an introduction by IMD Professor Ina...

IMD EMBAs visit frontier market Vietnam

Each year IMD Executive MBA participants get to visit exciting, vibrant economies across the world as part of the Discovery Expedition series. This year the EMBA participants will visit Vietnam.

IMD hosts Chief Marketing Officers Roundtable

IMD recently hosted a group of top marketing executives from leading companies. Over 30 executives ranging from CEOs to Chief Marketing Officers and Directors gathered at IMD for an event that...

How China is rebooting retail

By Michael R. Wade, Jialu Shan

The story of shops closing and the decline of retail has become a familiar one across the Western world. Giants such as Walmart and Macy’s in the US, and Marks and Spencer in the UK have been forced...

TransformTECH: demystifying emerging technologies for business

IMD recently ran its TransformTECH program for the first time. In the program, participants learn to harness new technologies to transform their business. IMD had the pleasure of welcoming Sylvie...

Millennials: reality vs. rumor

By Shlomo Ben-Hur with David Ringwood.

Millennials are the fastest growing population in the workplace, including the extent to which they influence leadership styles and different career expectations. But how much is really understood...

IMD EMBAs discover India on international immersion

IMD’s Executive MBA participants will visit vibrant India to learn more about how global corporations are changing — through lectures, case studies, company visits and a team assignment. The trip...

“IMD helped me become a confident leader in a VUCA world”

On the occasion of International Women’s Day IMD caught up with Anca Burca who graduated from IMD’s MBA class of 2015. Anca focuses on Digital & Business Strategy Transformation at Optimity...

How should the web be governed?

By Howard H. Yu

With all the offensive actions by Russia being unveiled recently, it has become all too clear that the current regime that governs cyber security is insufficient. The nature of cyber-attacks is...

Does the fate of the Internet rest with the US?

By Michael R. Wade with Heidi Gautschi.

The debate about net neutrality currently raging in the US and on social media is essentially one about whether all users should have equal access to all internet content. The debate is as old as...

IMD Alumni Community for Entrepreneurship launches in London

The first UK IMD Alumni Community for Entrepreneurship event was recently held in London.

IMD MBA team wins Debiopharm-Inartis innovation challenge to improve lives of healthcare patients

A team of IMD MBA students was recently officially recognized as winners in the prestigious Debiopharm-Inartis innovation challenge. Kicked off in December 2016, the second annual...

IMD’s top leadership program revamped to help executives refocus and tackle the issues that matter

IMD has announced the revamp of its Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives (BPSE). BPSE is IMD’s highest-level general management program, which prepares business leaders to recognize...

OWP Singapore wraps-up with a focus on new technology and Asia

An intense week of Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) – IMD’s annual Singapore edition of its signature program – wrapped up with over 150 tired, but happy participants being presented...

Merck, LEMO and Wider are the winners of the 2017 Vaud International Business awards hosted at IMD

IMD recently hosted the 4th Edition of the Vaud International Business Awards (PVEI) and welcomed over 350 entrepreneurs, CEOs and representatives from the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The event...

Uncovering the secrets to Singapore’s digital success

The Singapore edition of IMD’s signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) is currently underway. The program has been hosted every November in the Lion City since 2014. The...

What drives brain drain and brain gain?

By Shlomo Ben-Hur, Arturo Bris with José Caballero.

Based on the extensive data and survey results gathered by the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (taken from the years 2000-2016), The IMD World Talent Ranking assesses the ability of 61 countries...

Swiss Engineering Day takes place at IMD

IMD recently hosted Swiss Engineering Day aimed at bridging the gap between the engineering sector and the wider economy.