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February 2019 Interview of Professor Michael Wade in the Norwegian business magazine Kapital
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February 2019 Beekeeper from pivoting startup to disrupting scaleup,” by IMD Professor Benoit F. Leleux and Marc Chauvet won second prize in the John Molson MBA International Case Competition. “Pepperfry.com...
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February 2019 OWP is a chance to gain new knowledge and lead an organization in the right direction. While some companies bring different members of their executive team, the Irish Sea Fisheries Board selected...
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February 2019 By Arturo Bris, Carlos Cordon
Blockchain is a technology with two ingredients: the first is a distributed ledger, meaning a database with identical copies held by everyone in a network. There is no intermediary, no central...
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February 2019 Years of travelling to explore different food cultures has led an IMD alumna to create a restaurant business whose eateries offer dishes from around the world. Skills learned during her MBA...
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February 2019 Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) provides sessions that address a whole range of hot topics affecting business leadership today. These include subjects as varied as analytics and...
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February 2019 In depth interview of a participant of IMD’s digital programs, Ann-Christin Andersen
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February 2019 By Winter Nie, Yunfei Feng
Pinduoduo, China’s social e-commerce company known for rock-bottom priced products, is at a crossroads. For its investors, the hope is that over time PDD will be able to find new revenue sources...
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February 2019 By William A. Fischer
IMD Professor William A. Fischer gives insights into China’s radical transformation
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IMD Professor Dr. Winter Nie on the protracted battle between the two titans of China’s internet, Tencent versus Alibaba.
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February 2019 By Mark J. Greeven, Michael R. Wade
It is impossible to talk about digital business in China without focusing on either Alibaba, Tencent, or both. The business ecosystems built by the two Mr. Mas cannot easily be avoided, either...
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February 2019 By Winter Nie, Yunfei Feng with James J. D. Wang.
The Chinese economy was on the verge of collapse after a ten-year period of extreme chaos known as the Cultural Revolution which shook the country between 1966 and 1976. In May 1978, the...
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February 2019 By Howard H. Yu
There is little doubt that, WeChat is, in effect, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Zynga, Instagram, and Apple Pay all wrapped up in one. People can debate whether the rest of the world will...
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January 2019 By Philip Rosenzweig, Michael D. Watkins, Karine Avagyan with Michelle Perrinjaquet.
One of the most important challenges of management development concerns the transition from leading a particular function or single specialty, to leading a business, an organization with...
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January 2019 By John W. Walsh
People in the developed world have too much debt, spend too much and save too little. Some government agencies work in partnership with financial institutions to implement solutions to a...
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January 2019 By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff
As Industry 4.0 and Supply Chain Digitalization continue to draw attention from companies and suppliers, it comes as no surprise that the field of demand planning is evolving as the next potential...
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January 2019 By Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert
Armed with social media and growing economic clout, Gen Z is best positioned to influence business practices, rather than global climate agreements, where political gridlock appears to be the...
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January 2019 By Howard H. Yu
In the race of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things smart devices, where China is becoming a formidable rival, the US needs a more powerful shot in the arm to revive its innovation...
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January 2019 By Susan Goldsworthy, Natalia Olynec
Evidence that impact of human behavior on our planet is accelerating at unprecedented rates is raising pressure for business leaders to accept their role in stemming environmental destruction to...
Read more January 2017 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...
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January 2017 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...
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January 2017 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 ...
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January 2017 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...
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January 2017 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...
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January 2017 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...
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