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How COVID-19 vaccines turned the pharmaceutical supply chain into the ultimate gamble

By Carlos Cordon

Everyone can and should be agile – But not always do agile

By Stéphane J. G. Girod, Martin Králik

This world-leading bank in Singapore successfully reinvented itself as a start-up

DBS was recognised by Harvard Business Review in 2019 as one of the Top 20 business transformations of the past decade. Tell us, what did you do differently from other traditional banks undergoing...

Organizational transformation begins with the leader

By Ben Bryant

Dynamically designed around human connection, the hybrid office is the workplace your team needs

By John R. Weeks and Mahwesh Khan

New tech act in Switzerland secures legal environment, allows blockchain to flourish

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...

‘Women talk too much’ simply isn’t true, data show

By Ginka Toegel

Alumnus Jimmy Scavenius honored as AACSB Influential Leader 2021 for educational social enterprise Kwera

Nominated by IMD for his exemplary leadership, Scavenius (far left) will receive the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’s (AACSB) 2021 Class of Influential Leaders award today. It...

Leadership on steroids: 3 key questions to make business fun again in turbulent times

Designing powerful blended leadership development experiences

By Robert Hooijberg, Michael D. Watkins

Salary on demand: what if you could get paid "as you work"?

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...

There’s a lot to admire about China, but not much to copy from it – yet

By Arturo Bris

How can China tech giants survive regulators? Cash - From abroad

By Howard H. Yu, Jialu Shan

How innovation is driving China’s solid economic growth even during the pandemic

By Michael R. Wade, Jialu Shan

Lessons from Chinese Innovation during the Pandemic. Significant experimentation with new digital tools and technologies in China.

Fortunes and forecasts: why China’s GDP has weathered the global storm and is likely to continue to do so

By Winter Nie, James J. D. Wang with Yunfei Feng.

Tackling the post-pandemic needs of senior executives, IMD and 2U will partner on new cybersecurity and digital strategy courses

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...

5 new retail trends underway in China, that the rest of the world needs to know about

By Winter Nie, Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng

50 years on from women gaining the right to vote in Switzerland, it’s time to make all voices count

By Heather Cairns-Lee

COVID-19 could be the wakeup call the climate crisis needed, says chemicals company CEO

“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...

IMD is key publisher of case studies worldwide with sales of more than 166,000 copies

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. ...

You can’t pay bills with likes on Facebook

By Stéphane Garelli

If the post-truth era triumphs, if alternative facts supersede evidence, if polls are so wrong, it is perhaps because the relationship people have with the real world has changed. Throughout...

Tawfik Jelassi on scandals, Le Pen, Frexit and the upcoming French election

By Tawfik Jelassi

France’s right wing scandals will undoubtedly impact the outcome of the upcoming presidential race in a major way. These scandals have already propelled Emmanuel Macron and have significantly...

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...

The falling star called democracy

By Arturo Bris

While most cherish democratic countries as exemplar places to live, looking in depth at the competitiveness of nations paints another picture. As a researcher in this area, I could not recommend...

Tough love – Why Indian execs mustn’t undersell, but must democratize, their companies

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...

Are people really a company’s most important resource?

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...

Competitiveness and gender parity

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...

Challenges for women leaders in 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...

Putting gender diversity on the board agenda

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...