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February 2021 By John R. Weeks and Mahwesh Khan
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February 2021 Switzerland passed reforms collectively referred to as the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Act in September 2020. Those parts of the DLT Act that enable ledger-based securities to be...
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February 2021 Nominated by IMD for his exemplary leadership, Scavenius (far left) will receive the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’s (AASCB) 2021 Class of Influential Leaders award today. It...
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February 2021 By Robert Hooijberg, Michael D. Watkins
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February 2021 Earnd is an on-demand pay platform that applies the supply chain finance approach to paying employees. Is that right? Yes. Earnd is a subsidiary of Greensill, a leading player in supply-chain...
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February 2021 By Howard H. Yu, Jialu Shan
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February 2021 By Michael R. Wade, Jialu Shan
Lessons from Chinese Innovation during the Pandemic. Significant experimentation with new digital tools and technologies in China.
Read more February 2021 By Winter Nie, James J. D. Wang with Yunfei Feng.
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February 2021 Today’s uncertain environment demands a full toolkit for every management executive. But many senior leaders are struggling to develop, manage and execute business decisions that require knowledge...
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February 2021 By Winter Nie, Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng
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February 2021 “We are the last generation that still has the luxury to choose” to respond to climate change, said Ilham Kadri, chief executive of Belgian chemicals multinational Solvay. She issued this...
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February 2021 On World Case Teaching Day, IMD has announced the creation of a “Case of the month” series that will appear on the first Monday of the month and explore its cases with in-depth articles and videos. ...
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January 2021 The Case Centre has named several IMD faculty and business experts in its 2020 bestselling and classic cases lists, underlining the Institute’s global reputation for excellence in research. Five...
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January 2021 adidas: How to keep running fast in a post-COVID-19 world?, by Professor Niccolò Pisani, has garnered tremendous success since its publication in October 2020. Currently featured as one the...
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January 2021 Thailand needs to attract digital talent and invest more in education for it to boost its competitiveness in the current economic climate. That is the key message that came out of a recent IMD...
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March 2017 By Amit Shankar Mukherjee
America has an anti-free-trade populist in the White House. Without rethinking how its companies face the world, India will find it extraordinarily difficult to argue that it creates value, that...
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March 2017 By Stéphane Garelli
It happens regularly all over the world and in every company. The CEO addresses his collaborators: “You are the most important resource at this company”. He believes it, and he is right...
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March 2017 By Christos Cabolis
March 8 marks International Women’s Day: a celebration of the many accomplishments by women as well as the acknowledgement of on-going efforts for gender parity in the social, political and...
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March 2017 IMD interviewed Professors Bettina Buechel and Ginka Toegel to discuss to challenges facing women leaders in 2017 on the occasion of 8 March, International Women’s Day. The theme this year is “Be...
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March 2017 By Bettina Büchel
Today, there are still fewer women than men on company boards, even though in many countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women have obtained...
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March 2017 By Howard H. Yu, Knut Haanaes, Jayanth Narayanan, Ivy Buche with Lindsay McTeague.
Around 70 executives recently took part in a highly participative IMD Discovery Event to understand the concept of open innovation that is currently democratizing invention and product development...
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March 2017 By Martha L. Maznevski, Charles Dhanaraj, Anouk Lavoie Orlick with Lindsay McTeague.
Contributors: Phillipe Jost, Sebastian Pons Miquel, Ebru Katip.
Almost 100 executives attended a recent Discovery Event to find out how global organizations can create successful collaboration patterns and networks. Professors Martha Maznevski and Charles...
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March 2017 8 March is International Women’s day and this year’s theme is “Be Bold for Change”. IMD caught up with Jennifer Jordan a social psychologist and Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior...
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March 2017 IMD Professor, hostage negotiator and award-winning author, George Kohlrieser believes that it’s important to give back and create an impact for future generations. For three years, Professor...
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March 2017 Jean-Francois Vryens is a re gular at IMD, where he has been attending a program roughly every two years since 2006. “IMD has become my life toolbox.” He also goes on yearly two-week high...
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