IMD business school and PwC Consulting to jointly host a leadership development program in Japan to nurture the next generation of business leaders

By Naoshi Takatsu

IMD business school and PwC Consulting will jointly host a leadership development program in Japan to nurture the next generation of business leaders. The inaugural session is planned for October of...

New book by IMD MBA Alumna

IMD alumnae Alicia Micklethwait has co-authored a new book on the importance of corporate governance, board leadership and culture.

IOC Executive Board concludes meetings with governance report from IMD business school

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board wrapped up two days of meetings, ahead of the 2024 Candidate City Briefing and 130th Session, with a review of the IOC’s governance structures...

IMD brings Silicon Valley to Switzerland

IMD’s Alumni Community for Entrepreneurship held its first Venture Capital Deal Camp. The daylong program was organized to bring entrepreneurs and investors together as well as to give an overview of...

Fear is galvanizing

Celebrated for her bullseye wit, Lucy Kellaway gives her last talk at IMD before leaving the Financial Times after 32 years to become a teacher. The final keynote speaker of IMD’s 2017 Orchestrating...

The World Economy in 2017: What to Expect (and not to expect)

Home to the World Competitiveness Center, IMD shares its findings every year with Orchestrating Winning Performance, its signature program attended by executives from around the world. The yearly...

Performing Under Pressure - Learning from F1

A wide variety of keynote speakers contributes to the excellence of IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance program and this year’s edition is no exception. Following an evening dedicated to industry...

IMD recognizes its Lifelong Learners

At a ceremony held during Orchestrating Winning Performance, (OWP), President Jean-François Manzoni and OWP Program co-Director Tawfik Jelassi recognized outstanding IMD alumni with Lifelong Learning...

Making globalization work for everyone

Lise Kingo, the CEO & Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, a United Nations initiative dedicated to encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible...

All MBA event brings Alumni across generations back to school

Over the weekend, IMD held its annual All MBA Alumni event which brought together more than 200 holders of IMD’s MBA from classes starting from 1976 all the way up to the present.

Two IMD MBA teams rewarded for innovation in the Debiopharm Inartis Challenge

Two IMD teams of IMD MBAs have been named among the winners of the Debiopharm Inartis Challenge, a competition organized to harness innovation to improve the lives of healthcare patients. One team’s...

Beware of success

The double billing of Bracken P. Darrell, CEO of Logitech and Gilbert Achermann, former CEO and current Chairman of Straumann, was the unlikely combination of a leader in computer peripherals and a...

Orchestrating Winning Performance 2017 kicks off

IMD's largest open enrolment program, Orchestrating Winning Performance, kicked off for the 21st consecutive year on Sunday, drawing over 350 participants from around the globe to the IMD campus in...

IMD Launches The First 90 Days, a new program to help leaders in career transition

IMD has recently launched The First 90 Days, a new program designed to help leaders in career transition get up to speed quickly and find ways to create positive momentum in their new role.

IMD and Cisco unveil telepresence technology to connect campuses in Lausanne and Singapore

IMD Business School and Cisco have announced the completion of the Connected Classroom — a two-year-long initiative to virtually connect classrooms and boardrooms thousands of kilometres apart with...

New book on sustainability

Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In a new book titled “Beyond the Triple Bottom Line Eight Steps Toward a Sustainable Business...

2017 Best EMBAs: Andreu Torregrosa Martinez, IMD

“An enthusiastic and energetic visionary that loves the journey, especially when surrounded by amazing people.”

New Study Finds Executives See Digital Disruption as Opportunity to Transform Their Companies

A major study by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative, today revealed that executives are increasingly recognizing the positive aspects of digital...

IMD and EPFL announce TransformTECH, a new joint program for creating business value through artificial intelligence, robotics and IoT

IMD business school and EPFL announced today a collaboration to establish TransformTECH. The new program, which is scheduled to begin in January 2018, will focus on how business leaders can use...

IMD President Jean-François Manzoni at the St. Petersburg International Forum 2017

This month IMD president Jean-François Manzoni joins CEOs, global business leaders and decision and policy makers at the St. Petersburg International Forum 2017 organized under the auspices of the...

An inside look at the 2017 World Competitiveness Rankings

The world’s most competitive countries continue to jostle for the top positions in the 2017 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, as the USA is pushed out of the top three.

An impactful EMBA journey celebrated

On Friday, June 2 an amazing group of global leaders graduate the IMD Executive MBA program. The group of 51 participants represent 24 industries and 24 different nationalities including Canada, Brazi...

IMD team wins in EFMD Case Writing Competition

EFMD, a not for profit association of business schools known for publishing and awarding cases used all over the world by the most prestigious business schools, has just announced the winners of its...

New competitive global elite emerges in IMD business school’s latest world competitiveness ranking

Lausanne, Switzerland – May 31, 2017 - The world’s most competitive countries continue to jostle for the top positions in the 2017 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, as the USA is pushed out of the t...

2017 Best MBAs: Andrea Michahelles Barreno, IMD

“Energetic and analytical engineer. Volunteer by heart, true friend and action driven. Loves to smile and ask questions.”

IMD Alumnus publishes new book analysing decline of UK engineering industry

Tom Brown, an IMD MBA alumnus and engineering expert who has chaired 15 companies, has authored and successfully published a new book which explores the decline of the UK engineering industry.

Keeping the momentum of High Performance Leadership

Adrian Zwingli is a self-professed entrepreneur and as well as founder and chairman of SwissQ, a Zurich-based tech company. Adrian has done a number of programs at IMD including High Performance...

IMD ranked #1 in open programs by the Financial Times for sixth straight year

15 May 2017 – IMD has been recognized once again among the world’s best business schools by the Financial Times in its 2017 Executive Education Rankings. IMD came in at #1 in open programs for the six...

Corporate governance experts at IMD For annual conference

Fifty international academics and leading corporate governance practitioners have come together for an annual lecture at IMD with the IMD Global Board Center.

New IMD digital series: bootcamp, strategy, leadership, execution and more

The pace of digital transformation continues to speed up dramatically. No industries have been left untouched any many business risk being left behind. That’s why IMD business school is launching a ne...

IMD’s MBAs wrap up innovation week with exciting new projects

                                                                                                                                         IMD’s MBAs have just completed their whirlwind week of being...

IMD MBAs immersed in innovation

Can innovation be taught in a classroom? According to Cyril Bouquet, who’s currently leading the innovation module for IMD’s 2017 MBA class, the answer is probably not. That’s why he’s given the class...

Smart Cities: Swisscom and IMD partner again to help cities digitize

Smart City initiatives generally lack an operational framework that would guide the process undertaken by the heads of public entities. It was on this basis that IMD and Swisscom joined forces two yea...

MBA alumnus authors new book on entrepreneurial management

A graduate of the MBA Class of 1989 at IMD, Anwar Jumabhoy, has successfully co-authored and published a new book exploring the concept of entrepreneurial management.  The book, 9 ENTREPRENEURisms:...

What leaders can learn from hostage negotiation

When Professor George Kohlrieser encountered his first hostage situation, he knew he had to act fast; a perpetrator had a knife held to a nurse’s throat. Fortunately, by speaking to the knifeman and...

Welcome to Brazil

IMD’s EMBA participants recently headed to Brazil to meet with both domestic and multinational companies, academics and government officials to learn about the internationalization strategies of...

IMD Startup News: Cognex acquires ViDi Systems

Cognex Corporation announced today that it has acquired ViDi Systems SA, a maker of deep learning software for industrial machine vision. ViDi's deep learning software uses artificial intelligence...

IMD is saddened by the loss of Bo Olsson, MBA 1993

IMD regrets to announce the passing away of Bo Olsson who graduated from the school in 1993 with an MBA and who kept close ties to IMD over the years.  Fellow classmate Alan Kallir had this to say:  “...

IMD hosts prestigious equestrian forum

This April for the sixth consecutive year, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports Forum will be held on IMD’s campus in Lausanne. The event will include an introduction by IMD Professor an...

IMD’s first-ever EMBA Discovery Expedition to Vietnam

Last week IMD’s EMBA class experienced Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta in the first ever Executive MBA Discovery Expedition to Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing Asian economies. In partnership...

Transformational EMBA Discovery Expedition to India

“One word: transformational ”. That’s what the IMD EMBA class had to say about their recent Discovery Expedition to India.  The group of 55 executives from diverse backgrounds, 30 nationalities, and a...

IMD hosts X.Days Suisse Romande with NZZ

Digital disruption is like a vortex: It exerts a rotational force that draws everything that surrounds it, companies and entire sectors, into its center and drastically modifies processes, business...

IMD hosts Indo-Swiss Investment and Innovation Forum

IMD recently hosted the Indo-Swiss Investment and Innovation Forum which brought together over 130 business leaders, government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors from Switzerland, Europe, and...

IMD Startup News: OneVisage Secures Seed Funding

OneVisage was a winner in the IMD Startup Competition, and collaborated closely with a team of the school’s 2016 fulltime MBAs, and CEO Christophe Remillet continues to be connected to the school....

IMD Startup News: Kizy continues to scale its business

Kizy Tracking, the fast growing low-cost, low-power tracking solution for global supply chains, announced today a Series A funding led by Jari Ovaskainen, one of Europe’s leading business angels, with...

Hostage scenario at IMD

photo credit: Hayley Hay photography What a can a life and death session teach you about leading under pressure? 300 executives and IMD alumni gathered at the Swiss business school to experience an...

IMD at the Africa CEO Forum

CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40 African countries, and the most active bankers and investors on the continent come together in Gene...

Challenges for women leaders in 2017

IMD interviewed Professors Bettina Buechel and Ginka Toegel to discuss to challenges facing women leaders in 2017 on the occasion of 8 March, International Women’s Day. The theme this year is “Be Bold...

International Women’s Day 2017

8 March is International Women’s day and this year’s theme is “Be Bold for Change”. IMD caught up with Jennifer Jordan a social psychologist and Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at...

Michael Watkins in the Wall Street Journal

Michael Watkins recently talked with the Wall Street Journal about executive education and how managers make the shift to business leadership in a piece titled: “After promotions, managers must learn ...

An Executive MBA class Discovery Expedition to India

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 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 that...

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 ho...

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, characterized...

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 of...

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 and...

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 those...

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 the...

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 2nd...