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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...

In the field with Roche Diagnostics Belgium

By Heather Cairns-Lee, Tawfik Jelassi

IMD demonstrates sustainability progress with EcoVadis rating

IMD has been rated  Silver for 2021  by  EcoVadis .  T he business school  has demonstrated continuous improvement in implementing sustainability performance and capturing impact.  EcoVadis...

Call for nominations for the 2021 IMD Global Family Business Award – sponsored by Pictet

By Peter Vogel

IMD has opened up nominations for the 2021 Global Family Business Award (GFBA) and invites you to nominate family businesses. Every year since 1996, a globally leading family business has been...

Landmark financial sustainability regulation is finally here. Now what?

By Vanina Farber with Patrick Reichert.

Landmark financial sustainability regulation is finally here. Now what?

Silver lining? COVID-19 and the entrepreneurial gender gap

By Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert

How to contextualize the impostor syndrome and minimize its impact

By Jennifer Jordan ; Sanne Feenstra, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen; Christopher T. Begeny, Psychology, University of Exeter; Michelle K. Ryan, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen and Psychology, University of Exeter; Floor A. Rink, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen; Janka I. Stoker, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen

IMD MBA and EMBA alumnae are bridging the digital gender gap one tech startup at a time

It’s no secret that the tech sector has a difficult time attracting and retaining female employees. Women are missing at many levels of the industry – from technical specialists to C-suite executives...

Hilti’s first MBA scholarship awardee is dedicated to helping young women achieve more

As a woman in the male-dominated field of engineering, Harita Byluppala is all too aware of the importance role models play in shaping the ambitions of the young. Now that she has been awarded the...

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...

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...

Innovation happens elsewhere: Rethinking your business to grow and compete

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...

Leading collaboration in global organizations: How to build a house without a hammer

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...

International Women’s Day 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...