IMD News
Updates on the latest developments at IMD and among its community.
November 2020 Thousands of well-managed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide, with strong growth potential, have no succession plan. This is a problem for their founders, who have often put in...
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November 2020 Solid but slow-moving. This is how you might describe the business of global insurance. And that may be how China’s Ping An once was. Decades ago, it was an insurer selling life, property, and...
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November 2020 You, too, can cultivate compassion, reduce stress and find happiness by using mindfulness and mental training techniques, said Professor Tania Singer in her OWP live keynote address. What if...
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November 2020 Companies must now learn how to overcome the twin challenges of managing a hybrid workforce and the needs of remote consumers, according to Zoom CIO Advisor Magnus Falk. The lightning fast adoption...
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November 2020 IMD’s professors shared insights to help participants enhance leadership skills and cultivate winning performance amid global uncertainty on the third day of OWP liVe. How quickfire...
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November 2020 How does Spitch serve clients with Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies? There are two ways Spitch serves its customers, which range from large banks with millions of customers to...
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November 2020 Making money and doing good are often portrayed as antitheses. But Mostafa Terrab , chairman and chief executive officer of Morocco’s OCP Group, says such apparent opposi tes can be...
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November 2020 Participants and IMD’s experts shared insights to enhance leadership skills and unlock the secrets of winning performance amid global uncertainty on the second day of OWP liVe. How...
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November 2020 The opening of the second OWP liVe virtual program revealed the tricks of effective negotiation techniques, how to debias your decision making with technology, and why sustainability and...
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November 2020 Posed in front of a giant picture of himself clutching a winning trophy, Peter Schmeichel could hardly have picked a better location to kick off IMD’s OWP liVe. The much-decorated former...
Read more November 2020 The Foundation and Supervisory Boards of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) have renewed the presidential mandate for Professor Jean-François Manzoni for a period of...
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November 2020 What has been the key enabler in driving OCP’s transformation, and why? Honest clarity. As we defined our vision to feed the planet to feed the world, we knew that this had to be sustainable...
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November 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has destroyed economic activity and shredded capital, but it also presents a rare opportunity to build our economies back up better, more resilient, inclusive and...
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November 2020 Brown-Forman, one of the largest American family-owned companies in the spirits and wine industry, has won the 2020 IMD Global Family Business Award, sponsored by Pictet. The winner was revealed...
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November 2020 In order, from first to fifth were: Switzerland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Iceland, and Sweden. This year’s results — which use hard data from 2019 and survey answers from January to April 2020 &mdash...
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November 2020 From victory with Denmark in the UEFA Euro 1992 to five Premier League titles under Alex Ferguson, Peter Schmeichel etched a career into the history of football as one the greatest players to...
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November 2020 How would you describe Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and what is their status today? CBDCs are the digital equivalent of physical cash as they also represent a claim on Central Banks...
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November 2020 What are you working on at the moment? Since starting at IMD last year, I have intensified my work on resilience as the pandemic has spurred interest in this topic – I feel a little like a...
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November 2020 Research shows that COVID-19 has hit the elderly especially hard – in the United States, more than one-fifth of all Coronavirus deaths in the spring occurred in nursing or care homes. But that isn’t...
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November 2020 Covid-19 has accelerated change in all areas like never before. Learning & Development (L&D) remains a key focus for organizations, and technology is transforming how programs are delivered...
Read more 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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