IMD News
Updates on the latest developments at IMD and among its community.
March 2021 It’s no secret that the tech sector has a difficult time attracting and retaining female employees. Women are missing at many levels of the industry – from technical specialists to C-suite executives...
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March 2021 As a woman in the male-dominated field of engineering, Harita Byluppala is all too aware of the importance role models play in shaping the ambitions of the young. Now that she has been awarded the...
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February 2021 DBS was recognised by Harvard Business Review in 2019 as one of the Top 20 business transformations of the past decade. Tell us, what did you do differently from other traditional banks undergoing...
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February 2021 Switzerland passed reforms collectively referred to as the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Act in September 2020. Those parts of the DLT Act that enable ledger-based securities to be...
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February 2021 “When you are highly educated, you become more resilient to a pandemic or to economic shocks or any other disaster in society,” said Scavenius, the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit social...
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February 2021 Earnd is an on-demand pay platform that applies the supply chain finance approach to paying employees. Is that right? Yes. Earnd is a subsidiary of Greensill, a leading player in supply-chain...
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February 2021 Today’s uncertain environment demands a full toolkit for every management executive. But many senior leaders are struggling to develop, manage and execute business decisions that require knowledge...
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February 2021 “We are the last generation that still has the luxury to choose” to respond to climate change, said Ilham Kadri, chief executive of Belgian chemicals multinational Solvay. She issued this...
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February 2021 On World Case Teaching Day, IMD has announced the creation of a “Case of the month” series that will appear on the first Monday of the month and explore its cases with in-depth articles and videos. ...
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January 2021 The Case Centre has named several IMD faculty and business experts in its 2020 bestselling and classic cases lists, underlining the Institute’s global reputation for excellence in research. Five...
Read more January 2021 adidas: How to keep running fast in a post-COVID-19 world?, by Professor Niccolò Pisani, has garnered tremendous success since its publication in October 2020. Currently featured as one the...
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January 2021 Thailand needs to attract digital talent and invest more in education for it to boost its competitiveness in the current economic climate. That is the key message that came out of a recent IMD...
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January 2021 BBVA has taken a proactive approach to open banking, having moved ahead of PSD2 regulations in Europe. What opportunities in open banking do you see for established banks such as BBVA? In our view...
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January 2021 As the struggle for finding purpose and meaning in our personal and professional lives grows with each day of the pandemic, Alyson Meister has been named to the prestigious 2021 Thinkers50 Radar...
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January 2021 The annual knockout competition, organised by the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont, draws on an exclusive selection of case studies about family business to test the...
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January 2021 It may be made up of a diverse group, but the TOGETHER Initiative is united in one shared goal – a safe and healthy future for the planet. Founded by IMD participants for all IMD alumni, TOGETHER...
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January 2021 These days Dominik Reinhard mostly has his toes tucked under the table of a Microsoft Teams call, as he executes his role as European Head of Commercial Sales of the Crop Protection Division at R&D...
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January 2021 In December 2020, Tony Jamous was prepared to weather a possible quarantine and other isolation measures in order to attend one of the most important events of his life : the graduation of ...
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January 2021 At the time of our conversation with Martin, Bitcoin had just broken through the upper limit of $20,000, reaching a new all-time high. We wondered if it was still a good time to invest in...
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January 2021 IMD and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, one of the world’s top design schools, will develop a new design-oriented executive education program as part of an expanded partnership...
Read more March 2017 Each IMD Executive MBA class goes on three “Discovery Expeditions” to key global business hubs. Guided by passionate faculty, local experts, and hands-on learning, we study the economy, but also...
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March 2017 The Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an initiative of IMD business school and Cisco, and HR consultancy metaBeratung, have identified four competencies and three behaviours...
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February 2017 Innovation Professor Howard Yu, along with strategy and management Professor Thomas Malnight, and IMD Research Associate Ivy Buche were awarded for their work in the “outstanding case writer on the...
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February 2017 Executives and dealmakers typically understand the advantages of creating a collaborative atmosphere that favors value creation in negotiations. However, difficult negotiation processes...
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February 2017 From left, Adam Craker, Adam Habib, IMD Prof. Phil Rosenzweig In February, the IMD Alumni Club of South Africa were pleased to host guest speaker Adam Habib, an accomplished professor...
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February 2017 The Global Network for Advanced Management, an association of international business schools of which IMD is a member, has released a joint statement signed by the network’s Presidents, Deans...
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February 2017 Scholarships play an important role in supporting IMD’s already diverse MBA pool. There are roughly 10 different categories of IMD scholarships ranging from completely merit based awards to...
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January 2017 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...
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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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