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Ten Years After the Crisis – Are We Better Off?

By Arturo Bris

Professor Arturo Bris writes about what finance experts have learned since the 2008 financial crisis

IMD Business School program recognized for excellence in blended learning

IMD has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for excellence in the Best Use of Blended Learning category for the submission entry ‘Hilti & IMD: An Outperforming partnership to...

How a Swiss bank was toppled by a financial scandal in Malaysia – and what can be learned from it

By Salvatore Cantale with Ivy Buche.

The world’s biggest financial scandal, over missing billions from Malaysian state-run development fund 1MDB, has left the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, facing charges of corruption...

IMD’s MBAs dive deep in all new digital lab

IMD’s MBAs are undertaking a week-long digital lab to grasp technologies that are increasingly underpinning nearly all aspects of doing business

Entrepreneurship – Create something from nothing

IMD’s EMBAs once again head to Silicon Valley for a Discovery Expedition. Jim Pulcrano, expedition leader, describes the entrepreneurial learning journey This week IMD’s EMBAs will be in Silicon...

Coca-Cola’s swoop for Costa Coffee will cut its exposure to sugar and plastic bottles

By John W. Walsh

John Walsh analyzes Coca-Cola buying Costa

How listening to others helped piece together solutions to future challenges

More and more businesses are realizing that to stay ahead, they need to have a deep understanding of technology and what the future holds in terms of digital innovations. TransformTECH is a program...

IMD EMBA and Swiss Guard talks about his degree and how it shaped him

IMD recently met up with Gautier Porot to discuss his experience in the EMBA program, his key role in the Pope’s recent visit to Switzerland, and more.

The shifting position of leadership in a time of digital disruption

By Jennifer Jordan

In times of intense digital disruption, leaders need to position themselves in the group differently to how it was done in the pre-digital era. Why? If, like many of the executives I work with, you...

Why PepsiCo is splashing out US$3.2 billion on SodaStream

By Shlomo Ben-Hur

PepsiCo announced it would acquire SodaStream for US$3.2 billion, a 10% premium on SodaStream’s stock price and a 100% increase since the beginning of 2018.

Putting learning into practice with the IMD EMBA

Interview with Gaurav Kapoor, graduate of IMD’s Executive MBA program (EMBA) in 2018

Leading virtual teams

By Jennifer Jordan

One of the most common questions (and complaints I hear) from managers in the digital age is, “How do I work better with my virtual team?” This is a 5-million-franc answer, as the paucity of...

Happy 50th birthday Intel, you look a lot like the next Kodak

By Howard H. Yu

“I am easily a foot taller than Andy Grove. But whenever I was with him, I felt that he was the giant.” That’s what the bestselling Harvard business professor, Clayton Christensen, wrote about...

Cracking the millennial code

By Jennifer Jordan, Pascal Wicht

For the last five years, the influence of Millennials (people born approximately between 1980 and 2000) in the workplace has put pressure on many leaders and their organizations. But...

Nostalgia is not a good idea

By Stéphane J. G. Girod

Elon Musk took the business community by surprise when he said he had secured financing steps to take Tesla private. This morning, the Financial Times reveals that actually, the board has only...

The importance of the person effect on your leadership

By George Kohlrieser

Jackie has an important message to communicate. She needs to generate buy-in from the group. She delivers what she thinks is a compelling message. The response is rather tepid at best. Colleagues...

How global skin care company Beiersdorf onboards new managers

Beiersdorf AG is a German skin care company based in Hamburg, Germany. Its brands include Labello, La Prairie, Nivea and more. Founded in 1882, the company has over 18,000 employees and has a market...

The hidden cost of cost-to-serve

By Ralf W. Seifert with Richard Markoff.

Every supply chain executive has had the frustrating experience of witnessing inefficient practices in their fulfillment operations. One of ours was during a tour of a consumer product...

IMD MBA announces the winner of the “Create our Future” Challenge

In the search for India’s brightest and best, IMD organized the IMD MBA “Create Our Future” Challenge, a one-day intense think-in where participants engaged in groups to brainstorm how society...

IMD MBA selects MBA Class of 1976 Merit Scholarship holder

Every year at IMD, 90 promising young business leaders come together in the MBA class, are taken to their limits and come out ready to take on the world. The MBAs also make friends for life during...

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...

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...

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...

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...