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The sun shines bright on the class of Orchestrating Winning Performance

Highlights from OWP Lausanne 2019 day 3

Introverts or Extroverts – who makes a better colleague?

Karl Moore at Orchestrating Winning Performance

Artificial Intelligence: Boom or Doom?

Professor Amit Joshi looks at the hype and reality of AI at Orchestrating Winning Performance

Doing business in Africa: When uncertainty is the norm

Sibongile Manganyi-Rath, IMD EMBA, shares her business journey, her experiences and her story on doing business in Africa

Harnessing the power of transformation

Guillermo Diaz Jr Keynote Session at OWP

Finance and leadership: Stepping out of the comfort zone

Inspiring lessons from OWP 2019

The cutting edge of IMD learnings

Impressions of Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) 2019 Lausanne

Living a good life is an art

Rolf Dobelli gives the first keynote address of OWP Lausanne 2019

IMD kicks off 25th edition of energetic signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP)

Executives from around the world participate in IMD’s week long truly unique business management program OWP

Thrive as an LGBT+ executive or ally

By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Ina Toegel, Maude Lavanchy

As societies across many parts of the world are making legal and cultural progress to embrace the LGBT+ communities, many companies lag behind this process. LGBT+ executives still find it difficult...

IMD digital program hits landmark for growth and impact

Brigitte Urban, Head of Service Engineering at Siemens Mobility GmbH, has become the 1000th executive to choose IMD’s Leading Digital Business Transformation (LDBT) program

Building a fairer society requires a new kind of leadership

By Ina Toegel, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

It is time for Switzerland to pick up the pace in the fight for fairness – starting with executive leadership

Online shopping: why its unstoppable growth may be coming to an end

By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff

Many people probably assume that online stores are making a fortune, without all the costly bricks and mortar. But the reality is rather different. Many ecommerce activities are, in fact...

China got AI right, but did we get China right?

By Mark J. Greeven

Professor Mark Greeven provides insights from Chinese innovation and AI.

A professional life need not be boring!

Is a portfolio career an option? A testimonial by IMD Professor Stephane Garelli

What is the competitiveness performance of the different regions in 2019?

By Christos Cabolis

IMD EMBA Graduation June 2019: “Celebrating our learning marathon”

Pablo Percelsi’s career has often placed him in closer proximity to the world’s battle fields than its board rooms. Even so, completing IMD’s EMBA with executives from the world of business has led...

IMD ranked #1 in open programs 8 years in a row (2012-2019) in the Financial Times Executive Education Rankings

IMD is one of two schools ranked in the world’s top 5 for more than 15 years consecutively

An AI taught itself to play a video game – for the first time, it’s beating humans

By Amit M. Joshi, Maude Lavanchy

A self-taught AI beat humans at their own game – here's how they did it

Three barriers holding back the next wave of female digital leaders

By Tomoko Yokoi, Elizabeth A. Teracino, Jialu Shan, Michael R. Wade

As it stands, the current reality for female digital leaders and tech entrepreneurs is grim. Despite a healthy demand for digital talent, the lack of diversity in tech continues to be pervasive...

Embrace digital - make your strategy process more engaging!

By Knut Haanaes

A few years back the author was involved in an exercise where the strategy processes of a large set of leading global firms were observed. These were all companies you would expect to be...

The continuous attractiveness of Switzerland

By Arturo Bris, José Caballero

Why do MNCs such as Philip Morris and ABB choose Switzerland as a base for their operations? There are several significant factors that define the attractiveness of Switzerland. Among them, one...