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Where startups and investors come together

Promising medtech and philanthropy entrepreneurs meet with Swiss investors at IMD

IMD helped me to crystalize my purpose

Interview with Milena Amaral, IMD EMBA graduate (2014) and fashion industry entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Neovili

More than meets the eyes

Innovaud, a regional body tasked with promoting ‘scaleups’, recently released a report on the state of Vaud’s scaleups. The study showed that over half (13 of the 24) of the companies, defined by...

Building on firm foundations is the key to architectural and, increasingly, business success

By Arnaud Chevallier

Silicon Valley’s funding model fostered many successes and, in some cases, moving fast and breaking things is desirable – if the cost of failure is acceptable. However, there are settings you...

How NOT to define your Purpose

By Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche

When placed at the core of your strategy, Purpose can be a driver of future success. It can secure growth by redefining your playing field. It can drive profitability by reconfiguring your...

The art of the case in 21st century learning – IMD faculty recognized by the Case Centre

Kamran Kashani, Benoit Leleux, Carlos Cordon, Peter Killing and Dominique Turpin have once again been named among the Case Centre’s top 40 best-selling authors in 2018/2019

How to oust dominant leaders when they become dysfunctional

By Paul Strebel

Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic fall from grace at Nissan highlights the problem many boards have with a dominant leader. They emerge, like Ghosn, with political skill and their ability to create value, or...

Big business models are back-to-front

By Paul Strebel

Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not in the long term. The author argues that in order to safeguard...

Dachser wins the 2019 IMD Global Family Business Award

Dachser wins the 2019 IMD Global Family Business Award

Harness the power of AI for your business future

IMD launches new Artificial Intelligence short program as part of its Digital Excellence Diploma

Digital Strategy and Analytics – executives go beyond the buzzwords

Recent participants from IMD’s DSA share their key learnings

AI, IoT, robotics and blockchain – From theory to practice

Participants from TransformTECH, co-hosted by IMD and EPFL, share their insights

IMD startup alum wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contribution to reducing fossil fuel use

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 goes to the creators of the lithium-ion battery, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Stanley Whittingham was a member of the...

Smart cities: World’s best don’t just adopt new technology, they make it work for people

By Arturo Bris

Today, improving urban services through digital transformation is a huge industry, dominated by the likes of Cisco and IBM. But the idea of a “smart city” encompasses more than the clever application...

Smart data, not big data, can unlock the potential of predictive maintenance

By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff

Predictive Maintenance is an illustrative example of how success in exploiting Industry 4.0 technologies is about going smart, not going big, especially when it comes to data.

Competitiveness improves lives

The “right objective” of competitiveness in shaping public policy is to improve the lives of people, said IMD Emeritus Professor Stéphane Garelli, on day two of a conference celebrating...

30 years of competitiveness research: A race to improve nations

Celebrating the legacy of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Singapore tops new ‘citizen-centric’ global smart city index

The Smart City Index assesses a city’s efforts and success in embracing smart technologies to improve the lives of their citizens

Bridging the profit and non-profit gap to create real impact

IMD hosts event with International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)

IMD MBA to benefit from career advisory 5 or 25 years after graduation

IMD MBA alumni and IMD Alumni Office launch new career services

IMD and Qatar Petroleum conclude successful High Performance Boards Program

The Qatar Petroleum High Performance Boards Award Ceremony, held in Doha in January 2017, marked the culmination of a year-long transformational journey during which IMD and Qatar Petroleum laid...

IMD EMBAs rewarded for outstanding business cases on LinkedIn Learning and the Apple Watch

Two teams of IMD EMBA participants recently won awards in the 2017 John Molson MBA International Case competition. The IMD case: ''Will LinkedIn Learning Disrupt the Education Landscape?'' took...

Should companies and government meddle with “happiness”?

By Stéphane Garelli

Oud Bint Khalfan Al Roumi is twice happy. She landed a prestigious government position in the United Arab Emirates. Then, she was appointed to the rather unique job of “state minister in charge...

Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise: Masters of entrepreneurial partnerships

By Benoit F. Leleux with Marta Widz.

Receiving one of the most prestigious accolades for "excellence in family business" was a memorable moment for Hans Michael Jebsen and Heinrich Jessen – the two principal shareholders of Jebsen ...

Talent competitiveness and leadership quality

By Arturo Bris with Christos Cabolis, José Caballero.

Public policies can strongly influence the quality of leadership capabilities and competencies available in a particular country. For example, policies that increase education expenditure...

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...