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“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

IMD kicks off 25th edition of energetic signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP)

Executives from around the world participate in IMD’s week long truly unique business management program OWP

Thrive as an LGBT+ executive or ally

By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Ina Toegel, Maude Lavanchy

As societies across many parts of the world are making legal and cultural progress to embrace the LGBT+ communities, many companies lag behind this process. LGBT+ executives still find it difficult...

IMD digital program hits landmark for growth and impact

Brigitte Urban, Head of Service Engineering at Siemens Mobility GmbH, has become the 1000th executive to choose IMD’s Leading Digital Business Transformation (LDBT) program

Building a fairer society requires a new kind of leadership

By Ina Toegel, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

It is time for Switzerland to pick up the pace in the fight for fairness – starting with executive leadership

Online shopping: why its unstoppable growth may be coming to an end

By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff

Many people probably assume that online stores are making a fortune, without all the costly bricks and mortar. But the reality is rather different. Many ecommerce activities are, in fact...

China got AI right, but did we get China right?

By Mark J. Greeven

Professor Mark Greeven provides insights from Chinese innovation and AI.

A professional life need not be boring!

Is a portfolio career an option? A testimonial by IMD Professor Stephane Garelli

What is the competitiveness performance of the different regions in 2019?

By Christos Cabolis

IMD EMBA Graduation June 2019: “Celebrating our learning marathon”

Pablo Percelsi’s career has often placed him in closer proximity to the world’s battle fields than its board rooms. Even so, completing IMD’s EMBA with executives from the world of business has led...

IMD ranked #1 in open programs 8 years in a row (2012-2019) in the Financial Times Executive Education Rankings

IMD is one of two schools ranked in the world’s top 5 for more than 15 years consecutively

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...