IMD News
Updates on the latest developments at IMD and among its community.
May 2022
Hacking Digital: Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation by Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Didier Bonnet, Professor of Strategy and...
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May 2022
IMD has won a 2022 EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award for its custom program, co-created with Moroccan state-owned mining and fertilizer firm OCP and Africa business school. The case follows...
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May 2022
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) launched at COP26 last year and is a unique partnership between eight of Europe’s leading business schools to help present and future leaders combat...
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May 2022
According to long-held wisdom, learners retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 90% of what they do. I MD’s innovation week was the l atest element in the MBA program which set out...
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May 2022
Poets & Quants has named Peter Vogel, IMD Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship, as one of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA professors worldwide in its 10th annual...
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May 2022
The last two years have not been easy for supply chain managers. Pandemic-induced production stoppages and shipping bottlenecks caused widespread disruption, prompting firms to scramble for...
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May 2022
Retail banks trump fintech companies this year in contrast to last year, with J.P Morgan, ING climbing ten spots, Block lands in 6th place behind stalwart banks Tesla and Toyota dominate the...
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May 2022
Executive MBA participants in the Class of April 2022, the self-named ‘NewHorizons’ cohort, came together earlier this month for a Startup Accelerator Day to coach and mentor each other on their...
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May 2022
IMD is pleased to announce that Professor Vanina Farber has won two awards in the 2021 EFMD Case Writing Competition , for cases examining both a female-led sustainable investment firm and a...
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April 2022
Hans Gattlen always wanted to be an entrepreneur. A trained lawyer, he worked in-house at Rieter Automotive and switched to a management role when the company embarked on an M&A spree. Having...
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April 2022
When Marie-France Tschudin first started her career as a sales rep for pharmaceutical company Janssen-Cilag in Portugal, she never really imagined staying in the pharmaceutical industry and thought...
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April 2022
IMD and Innovaud have been supporting startups for many years, through initiatives such as the IMD Startup Competition and the NNexus and Scale Up Vaud programs. But until now, there has been a gap...
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April 2022
When it comes to investing in a startup, Olivier Laplace, Partner, Venture Capital at VI Partners has been on both sides of the table. As a former startup founder, he has been in the position of...
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April 2022
When Sarah Luvisotto embarked on her EMBA program, she hoped it might take her career in an international direction. During the course, Luvisotto – whose succession of previous roles had...
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April 2022
“Wherever you go, leave a much better place, and together, we can leave a much better world.” These were the words of Hope Murera, IMD alumna and Managing Director and CEO of ZEP-RE (PTA...
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April 2022
Three Swiss startups connected with IMD and a digital bank founded by an MBA alumnus have successfully raised funds from investors. The firms – covering the ecotechnology, manufacturing...
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March 2022
As a civil engineer, Hani Dakhil likes to explain things by bringing them back to the material world. “When something is very rigid it breaks very easily,” he explained. “If a material is flexible...
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March 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that people of all ages were struggling with IT tools across the board, says Yassine Zaied, IMD MBA 2005 and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Nexthink, whose firm...
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March 2022
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) has appointed strategy and political economy expert David Bach (above, center) to a new Rio Tinto Chair in Stakeholder Engagement. The...
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March 2022
Far from being a super power that one is born with, leadership is more like a muscle that needs challenge, support and nourishment to reach its potential. Scholarships at IMD ensure that anyone with...
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February 2018
PRESS RELEASE – As of the beginning of 2018, IMD business school is now a member of “digitalswitzerland”. digitalswitzerland is a cross-industry association created from the shared vision of its...
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February 2018
Of the 90 participants in IMD's 2018 MBA class, 34 were awarded scholarships totalling over 900,000 Swiss Francs. The scholarships, which are either merit-based or awarded to participants from...
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February 2018
February kicks off with a bang of innovative spirit in Singapore with a lively gathering organized by IMD’s Global Alumni Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE). The ACE initiative was formed two...
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January 2018
PRESS RELEASE – IMD and ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, have established a partnership agreement and are currently working together on a series of joint initiatives. The two...
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January 2018
The Case Center has just released a list of their most popular cases from 2017. The list includes the top fifteen best-selling cases in each of the ten major subject areas. IMD authored cases...
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January 2018
The IMD Case study Growing Pains: Mahindra First Choice by IMD Professors Charles Dhanaraj, Thomas Malnight, and Ivy Buche, Business Transformation Project Manager at IMD, recently won in the 2018...
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January 2018
IMD alumnus Hans-Petter Mellerud is on track to become the world’s best entrepreneur after being chosen as Norway’s Entrepreneur of 2017 by EY, a professional services firm.
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January 2018
PRESS RELEASE – As a top-ranked business school, IMD is expert in developing leaders, transforming organizations and creating positive, sustainable impact – immediate and long-term. We strive to...
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January 2018
What qualities make a great leader? How does the Swiss army prepare its officers for command roles? And how can the private sector incorporate some of the army’s best leadership practices...
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