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Silver lining? COVID-19 and the entrepreneurial gender gap

By Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert

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...

Behind the design of the COVID vaccine was one company pivoting at lightning speed and taking leaps of faith

By Jim Pulcrano and Matthieu Manzoni

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

‘Higher education is essential to taking on climate change, equality, poverty and building a sustainable world,’ says Jimmy Scavenius

“When you are highly educated, you become more resilient to a pandemic or to economic shocks or any other disaster in society,” said Scavenius, the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit social...

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...

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...

Jeff Jones at Uber: What's the real story?

By Michael D. Watkins

When the going gets tough, do the not-so-tough get going? Such may be the case with Jeff Jones who, after just 6 months as President, has departed Uber.

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...

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...