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From the hospital to the boardroom – the journey of two women entrepreneurs

Neither Semira Gonseth Nusslé nor Nayeli Schmutz had ever planned to become entrepreneurs. Both medical doctors by training, their passions led them to found startups that could revolutionize...

Colombia’s Carvajal wins 2022 IMD Global Family Business Award

Carvajal, a leading diversified, family-owned Colombia-based company, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 IMD Global Family Business Award. Established in 1904 by Manuel Carvajal Valencia...

Searching for the perfect job involves self-reflection and instinct 

Alarico Allegri does not believe in following a conventional career path. His career journey so far has spanned continents working in both advisory and executive roles, all of which have shaped...

The future of management education: the impact of hybrid learning

As the American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford once said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Staying true to...

In memory of Mario Marconi

It is with great sadness that we share the tragic news that IMD Alumnus, Executive in Residence and family office expert Mario Marconi has passed away after a short illness. Mario, a senior advisor...

Training the ranks of business diplomats to take on tomorrow’s crises

From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine and the climate emergency, executives today are facing an unrelenting barrage of crises. To equip leaders from both the public and private sector...

Running a business like a war-time general - Bohdana Pavlychko's story

Bohdana Pavlychko is no stranger to a crisis. Since taking over the reins of her family’s publishing house in 2010, she has seen the business through the 2014 Maidan revolution, the war in the east...

IMD MBA Venture Award to support entrepreneurs of the future

With the 2022 launch of the MBA Venture Award, IMD alumnus and serial entrepreneur Thierry Maupilé intends to help MBA candidates embrace entrepreneurship in a new way, by providing the...

‘Climate crisis, rising inequality and new tech will shape the future of management education’

The Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) celebrated its 10th anniversary on 26 – 28 May at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne with series of...

IMD authored works recognized at two business book awards

Hacking Digital: Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation by Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Didier Bonnet, Professor of Strategy and...

IMD wins two prizes in the EFMD 2022 Excellence in Practice awards

IMD has won a 2022 EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award for its custom program, co-created with Moroccan state-owned mining and fertilizer firm OCP and Africa business school.   The case follows...

Business Schools for Climate Leadership shares important new insights in tackling climate crisis

Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) launched at COP26 last year and is a unique partnership between eight of Europe’s leading business schools to help present and future leaders combat...

Innovation week challenges MBAs to redesign startup accelerator to fulfil green ambitions

According to long-held wisdom, learners retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 90% of what they do. I MD’s innovation week was the l atest element in the MBA program which set out...

Peter Vogel features in Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA professors list

Poets & Quants has named Peter Vogel, IMD Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship, as one of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA professors worldwide in its 10^th annual...

Which companies will survive the next crisis?

Retail banks trump fintech companies this year in contrast to last year, with J.P Morgan, ING climbing ten spots, Block lands in 6th place behind stalwart banks Tesla and Toyota dominate the...

Courageous leadership is needed now to address systemic challenges

By Katharina Lange

Why all businesses should embrace sustainability

By Knut Haanaes with Natalia Olynec.

Sustainability is becoming more important for all companies, across all industries. 62% of executives consider a sustainability strategy necessary to be competitive today, and another 22% think it...

IMD and Innovaud partner on new scale-up program for fast-growing startups

IMD and Innovaud have been supporting startups for many years, through initiatives such as the IMD Startup Competition and the NNexus and Scale Up Vaud programs. But until now, there has been a gap...

Rio Tinto endows Chair in Stakeholder Engagement at IMD

The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) has appointed strategy and political economy expert David Bach (above, center) to a new Rio Tinto Chair in Stakeholder Engagement. The...

MBAs go deep into the science behind sustainability

What kind of sustainability challenges do the world’s top 20 companies face? And to what extent are organizations living up to their promises when it comes to corporate climate responsibility? On 21...

Your strategy needs a strategy

By Knut Haanaes, Howard H. Yu, Jennifer Jordan, Karine Avagyan with Lindsay McTeague.
Contributors: Martin Reeves, José Lopez.

In a business environment that is changing ever more quickly and becoming increasingly uncertain and complex, it has never been more important – or more difficult – to choose the right approach...

Performing Under Pressure - Learning from F1

A wide variety of keynote speakers contributes to the excellence of IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance program and this year’s edition is no exception. Following an evening dedicated to...

IMD recognizes its Lifelong Learners

At a ceremony held during Orchestrating Winning Performance, (OWP), President Jean-François Manzoni and OWP Program co-Director Tawfik Jelassi recognized outstanding IMD alumni with Lifelong...

Making globalization work for everyone

Lise Kingo, the CEO & Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, a United Nations initiative dedicated to encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially...

All MBA event brings Alumni across generations back to school

Over the weekend, IMD held its annual All MBA Alumni event which brought together more than 200 holders of IMD’s MBA from classes starting from 1976 all the way up to the present.

Two IMD MBA teams rewarded for innovation in the Debiopharm Inartis Challenge

Two IMD teams of IMD MBAs have been named among the winners of the Debiopharm Inartis Challenge, a competition organized to harness innovation to improve the lives of healthcare patients. One...

Transition traps

By Michael D. Watkins

Every year, thousands of managers enter new leadership positions. Their actions during the first few months on the job can determine their success or failure, yet little first-rate advice is...

Beware of success

The double billing of Bracken P. Darrell, CEO of Logitech and Gilbert Achermann, former CEO and current Chairman of Straumann, was the unlikely combination of a leader in computer peripherals and...

Secrets of success in long-lasting family firms

By Denise H. Kenyon-Rouvinez

The world over, the vast majority of very long-lasting firms are family owned and family run. What made them highly successful when so many businesses around them failed? These families have much...

Orchestrating Winning Performance 2017 kicks off

IMD's largest open enrolment program, Orchestrating Winning Performance, kicked off for the 21st consecutive year on Sunday, drawing over 350 participants from around the globe to the IMD campus...