IMD News
Updates on the latest developments at IMD and among its community.
September 2022
Neither Semira Gonseth Nusslé nor Nayeli Schmutz had ever planned to become entrepreneurs. Both medical doctors by training, their passions led them to found startups that could revolutionize...
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September 2022
IMD has celebrated the release of its 2022 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking by hosting the 2022 Digital Competitiveness Summit, co-organized by digitalswitzerland and the École polytechnique...
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September 2022
Carvajal, a leading diversified, family-owned Colombia-based company, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 IMD Global Family Business Award. Established in 1904 by Manuel Carvajal Valencia...
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September 2022
Governments and the private sector need to shield their digital infrastructure from cyber attacks if they want to continue in the race for digitally competitive economies. This was a major finding...
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September 2022
“What if our best future is still ahead of us?” This was the rallying cry from Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, in her keynote speech on 'Climate Justice' on the first day of the...
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September 2022
As the American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford once said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Staying true to...
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September 2022
Claus Hemmingsen, now serving as chairperson on the boards of DFDS, Innargi and Maersk Drilling, said that did not just mean focusing on meeting the evolving expectations of regulators or investors...
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September 2022
The brainchild of Brandon Taft, an American from the MBA Class of 2022, InStep is a digital health app that hopes to improve the accessibility, representation, and convenience of healthcare. The...
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September 2022
It is with great sadness that we share the tragic news that IMD Alumnus, Executive in Residence and family office expert Mario Marconi has passed away after a short illness. Mario, a senior advisor...
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August 2022
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine and the climate emergency, executives today are facing an unrelenting barrage of crises. To equip leaders from both the public and private sector...
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August 2022
IMD has received a Gold award at the 2022 Brandon Hall Group awards for work led by Professor of Strategy and Organization Bettina Büchel in developing talent and driving change at Moroccan...
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August 2022
Professor Pulcrano: Please start by telling us what your startup is and does? Amaël Cohades: CompPair is a spin-off of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , EPFL. We founded the company...
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August 2022
Bohdana Pavlychko is no stranger to a crisis. Since taking over the reins of her family’s publishing house in 2010, she has seen the business through the 2014 Maidan revolution, the war in the east...
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July 2022
‘Singapore is economically competitive. To maintain its position, it needs to invest more in developing transformational leaders’ Singapore’s senior executives are well-positioned to adapt to...
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July 2022
With the 2022 launch of the MBA Venture Award, IMD alumnus and serial entrepreneur Thierry Maupilé intends to help MBA candidates embrace entrepreneurship in a new way, by providing the...
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July 2022
Zhanna Kryuchkova could be best described as a self-disruptor. She has founded an eclectic range of businesses over the past two decades, spanning car dealerships, consulting, construction, and...
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July 2022
In dreams begins responsibility. That saying, first published as an epigram by Irish poet W.B. Yeats in 1916, seems particularly apt for Jonas Jafari, MBA 2017, these days. The Norwegian...
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June 2022
The IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award recognizes excellence in sustainability in the sphere of family-owned enterprises, helping to inspire positive impact in areas such as...
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June 2022
In April – less than two years after its launch - Global HR platform Oyster was valued at more than $1 billion, officially making it a ‘unicorn.’ In the startup world, this signifies the holy grail...
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June 2022
What’s it like to take part in negotiations at the UN’s climate conference? Over two intense days, the MBA class simulated a COP on IMD’s campus in Lausanne, assuming the roles of delegates...
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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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