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Fulfilling Africa’s promise – first Kwera graduates focus on sustainability

Wongani Chisati and Kennedy Black are celebrating their achievements. The two young Malawians graduated this spring, having had their studies funded by Kwera, an educational social enterprise set up...

Europe dominates, China rises, and the US remains stable in 2021 World Competitiveness Ranking

Switzerland has come top for the first time in the 33-year history of IMD’s World Competitiveness Ranking, in a year that reflected the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic competitiveness...

How diversifying its asset portfolio revitalized one company’s teams and business

By Robert Hooijberg

What happened when AIA – the largest pan-Asian life insurance group – decided that its long-standing investment function was in need of a transformation?

EMBAs inspired to spark a recycling circular economy

As the world devours more and more plastic packaging, many economies are struggling to keep up with the waste, with devastating effects on the planet. Part of the solution for a more sustainable way...

IMD’s Lausanne campus served as Coronavirus safe haven for one Chinese MBA participant

In December 2019, Haichen Liu had many plans for her year in Lausanne. As a keen salsa fan, she had pinned to her wall a schedule of dance events dotted around Europe over the course of the next...

Five social innovation and sustainability leaders feature at IMD’s All MBA Alumni Event

The elea Center for Social Innovation announced the three winners of the second annual IMD–elea Social Impact Recognition at the IMD All MBA Alumni Event today. Alumni, judges and nominees gathered...

Today’s EMBA graduates ‘must leave economic, ecological and social systems stronger’

Courage and resilience distinguish the EMBA Class of April 2021, and these traits have allowed them to pursue their challenging program through 14 months of uncertainty wrought by the pandemic. As...

“Look to the past to understand who you are in the present,” says Marija Tomeska, Valedictorian of IMD’s April 2021 EMBA cohort

Marija Tomeska – voted Valedictorian of the IMD EMBA April 2021 cohort by faculty and peers – is the very definition of loyal. Uninterested in the superficial, but a fan of deep human...

How COVID-19 is spurring innovation in South Africa

Fresh from the success of  COBRA  (Covid Business Rescue Assistance), Adam Craker has turned to SAtion, a public private initiative to ease and accelerate South Africa’s digital future.    Building...

Julia Binder Joins IMD Faculty

IMD Business School is pleased to announce that Julia Binder will join the school’s campus in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 1st, 2021 as Professor of Sustainable Innovation and...

Challenging mindsets to inspire impact

By Vanina Farber

Ina Toegel honored on Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA professors list

By Ina Toegel

IMD Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change  Ina Toegel  has been named one of the top MBA professors globally.  Poets & Quants , the business education-focused publication, has announced...

IMD Professor Tawfik Jelassi appointed to top UNESCO post

UNESCO has just announced that Professor Tawfik Jelassi has been appointed Assistant Director General and will be based at its Paris headquarters. The UN organization has an ambitious mission...

EFMD prize for IMD case on the breakthrough of a bricklaying robot

IMD’s Professor Dominique Turpin has won the Bringing Technology to Market category in the 2020 EFMD Case Writing Competition for his case "SAM 100: Will Construction Robotics Disrupt the US...

How an EMBA took one alumnus’ sustainability thinking to the next level

In 1996, sustainability was not high on the world agenda. “Sustainability and other environmental fields were really fields of the future, not the present,” said Dall’Orso, remembering back to the...

The accountability of the Ever Given in blocking the Suez Canal lies in forensics, as one IMD alumnus knows well

As  part of an  investiga tion into   what   caused   the   Ever   Given   container ship   to   crash   into   the   bank   of   the   Suez Canal  last month,  blocking  a crucial  artery   of...

IMD faculty strengthened by specialist in psychology of leadership

Dr. Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg has joined IMD as Adjunct Professor of Leadership. A clinical psychologist specializing in organizational psychology, she brings more than two decades of professional...

IMD publishes 2020 Annual and Sustainability Reports

With the joint publication of its Annual and Sustainability Reports, IMD offers an in-depth look into its activities throughout 2020 – a year heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Spotlight on sustainability as Aquatis Innovation Challenge named one of AACSB 2021 Innovations That Inspire

As organizations move to more environmentally friendly products and processes, sustainability has changed from an afterthought to a key driver of innovation. Recognizing the importance of...

Improve EI&D by addressing institutionalized imposter syndrome

The psychological complex of imposter syndrome is domain-specific and is more a product of the environment, rather than the individual, said Jennifer Jordan, a social psychologist and IMD Professor...

Upstart start-ups and agile disruptors – and what to do about them

By Dominique Turpin

Now is the age of market disruptors: of Uber, Deezer, Alipay, Rakuten and many others. These innovative start-ups and nimble brands are crashing into markets traditionally dominated by...

An M&A Oversight Framework for Boards

By Didier Cossin with Abraham Hongze Lu.

Global M&As reached an all-time high in 2015, surpassing the previous record set in 2007. The $4.28 trillion worth of deals exceeded those of 2014 by more than $1 trillion.[i] Today, companies...

IMD hosts Indo-Swiss Investment and Innovation Forum

IMD recently hosted the Indo-Swiss Investment and Innovation Forum which brought together over 130 business leaders, government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors from Switzerland, Europe...

How disruption is redefining leadership

By Michael R. Wade

Imagine that you are an executive overseeing retail banking at a large financial services company. In addition to the normal challenges you face as one of the company’s leaders, you are confronted...

IMD alumnus leads in digital

The introduction of an innovative digital marketing culture at OneLife, a Luxembourg-based wealth management specialist, has earned Christophe Regnault the first ever Luxemburg “Digital Personality...

IMD Startup News: OneVisage Secures Seed Funding

OneVisage was a winner in the IMD Startup Competition, and collaborated closely with a team of the school’s 2016 fulltime MBAs, and CEO Christophe Remillet continues to be connected to the...

IMD Startup News: Kizy continues to scale its business

Kizy Tracking, the fast growing low-cost, low-power tracking solution for global supply chains, announced today a Series A funding led by Jari Ovaskainen, one of Europe’s leading business angels...

Hostage scenario at IMD

photo credit: Hayley Hay photography What a can a life and death session teach you about leading under pressure? 300 executives and IMD alumni gathered at the Swiss business school to experience...

When the purest form of business is doing something on your own

Oliver Freiland always remembers a pivotal moment in his career when, dissatisfied with his consultancy work, he sat down and had a discussion with himself. "I decided there and then to start my...

IMD at the Africa CEO Forum

CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40 African countries, and the most active bankers and investors on the continent come together in...