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Supply chain career opportunities

By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff

More and more companies have complex, global supply chains and are evolving their management structures to maintain service levels and control working capital. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP...

Finding purpose through social innovation

By Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert

At a Discovery Event on finding purpose through social innovation, Professor Vanina Farber engaged participants to explore the challenges and opportunities that their organizations face as global...

IMD reaccredited by world’s largest business school association AACSB

AACSB review praises IMD as ‘best practice’ business school

Let’s go seize tomorrow’s opportunities!

Orchestrating Winning Performance Lausanne 2019 closes on a high note

How can your organization become more purpose-driven?

Understanding the power of purpose – can doing good generate good business?

Let’s take your brain to the spa

Executives recharge their batteries at IMD’s signature learning program

Bringing down the walls

A lesson in generations and prosperity

What makes a great leader in the digital age?

IMD Professor Jennifer Jordan reveals the top qualities of today’s managers at Orchestrating Winning Performance

When a country is a threat to your company

Professor Omar Toulan on the risks and opportunities of our volatile times

“Humans have given up consent and control for convenience”

Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISeKey, sounds the alarm on life on the web at Orchestrating Winning Performance

“Leaders need to have fun”

Peter Voser, ABB Chairman and CEO, on life and leading

What is a “Smart City”? IMD and SUTD’s Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities research reveals urban recipe for success

How do we create content and prosperous cities in the age of uncertainty? A new book and ground-breaking research index by researchers at IMD business school and the Singapore University of...

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

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...