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Deep cultural change journeys for senior intact teams

By 2019 dtac, the third largest cellphone operator in Thailand, was beginning to see results from the strategic turnaround it had started the year before. But much remained to be done regarding...

Putting digital at the heart of business transformation

The business potential of transformational technologies like IoT (Internet of things), artificial intelligence and robotics, is enormous but how do you separate the hype from the reality? For...

The learning Chief Executive: head of Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore on ‘servant leadership’

When Quah Ley Hoon was offered a scholarship by the Singaporean government to study an MBA, she grasped the opportunity with both hands. As a self-confessed Francophile who earned her MA in...

How and why business travel is helping the sector recover from the COVID crisis

Travel’s journey back to health After 18 months of industry disruption, the travel industry is seeing the green shoots of recovery. But the journey back to health will demand agility...

IMD Global Family Business Center wins the Family Firm Institute International Award

The IMD Global Family Business Center (GFBC) has been bestowed with the distinguished International Award from the Family Firm Institute (FFI). The FFI Committee unanimously agreed on the choice of...

Transformation to sustainability requires listening from leaders

After years of scepticism and resistance, the sustainability message now permeates corporate boardrooms and leadership teams, amid global concerns about climate change, food security and countless...

J.M. Huber Corporation wins 2020 IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award

With sustainability rapidly becoming business critical as a licence to operate, the IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award acknowledges and motivates family-owned enterprises that strive...

Fulfilling Africa’s promise – first Kwera graduates focus on sustainability

Wongani Chisati and Kennedy Black are celebrating their achievements. The two young Malawians graduated this spring, having had their studies funded by Kwera, an educational social enterprise set up...

Europe dominates, China rises, and the US remains stable in 2021 World Competitiveness Ranking

Switzerland has come top for the first time in the 33-year history of IMD’s World Competitiveness Ranking, in a year that reflected the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic competitiveness...

EMBAs inspired to spark a recycling circular economy

As the world devours more and more plastic packaging, many economies are struggling to keep up with the waste, with devastating effects on the planet. Part of the solution for a more sustainable way...

IMD’s Lausanne campus served as Coronavirus safe haven for one Chinese MBA participant

In December 2019, Haichen Liu had many plans for her year in Lausanne. As a keen salsa fan, she had pinned to her wall a schedule of dance events dotted around Europe over the course of the next...

Five social innovation and sustainability leaders feature at IMD’s All MBA Alumni Event

The elea Center for Social Innovation announced the three winners of the second annual IMD–elea Social Impact Recognition at the IMD All MBA Alumni Event today. Alumni, judges and nominees gathered...

Today’s EMBA graduates ‘must leave economic, ecological and social systems stronger’

Courage and resilience distinguish the EMBA Class of April 2021, and these traits have allowed them to pursue their challenging program through 14 months of uncertainty wrought by the pandemic. As...

“Look to the past to understand who you are in the present,” says Marija Tomeska, Valedictorian of IMD’s April 2021 EMBA cohort

Marija Tomeska – voted Valedictorian of the IMD EMBA April 2021 cohort by faculty and peers – is the very definition of loyal. Uninterested in the superficial, but a fan of deep human...

How COVID-19 is spurring innovation in South Africa

Fresh from the success of  COBRA  (Covid Business Rescue Assistance), Adam Craker has turned to SAtion, a public private initiative to ease and accelerate South Africa’s digital future.    Building...

Julia Binder Joins IMD Faculty

IMD Business School is pleased to announce that Julia Binder will join the school’s campus in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 1st, 2021 as Professor of Sustainable Innovation and...

Ina Toegel honored on Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA professors list

By Ina Toegel

IMD Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change  Ina Toegel  has been named one of the top MBA professors globally.  Poets & Quants , the business education-focused publication, has announced...

IMD Professor Tawfik Jelassi appointed to top UNESCO post

UNESCO has just announced that Professor Tawfik Jelassi has been appointed Assistant Director General and will be based at its Paris headquarters. The UN organization has an ambitious mission...

EFMD prize for IMD case on the breakthrough of a bricklaying robot

IMD’s Professor Dominique Turpin has won the Bringing Technology to Market category in the 2020 EFMD Case Writing Competition for his case "SAM 100: Will Construction Robotics Disrupt the US...

How an EMBA took one alumnus’ sustainability thinking to the next level

In 1996, sustainability was not high on the world agenda. “Sustainability and other environmental fields were really fields of the future, not the present,” said Dall’Orso, remembering back to the...

New study finds most leaders unprepared to meet the demands of digital disruption

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...

IMD takes prize at ‘Business School Oscars’

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...

How negotiations escalate to the point of no return

Executives and dealmakers typically understand the advantages of creating a collaborative atmosphere that favors value creation in negotiations. However, difficult negotiation processes...

Renowned academic and activist shines at IMD Alumni event in South Africa

             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...

Global business education is the best antidote to economic nationalism

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...

IMD’s 2017 MBA class receives over half a million CHF in scholarships

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...

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...

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...