IMD Impact Stories
Showcasing the impact for participants and companies in IMD’s open, online, customized, EMBA and MBA programs.
April 2019 IMD EMBA Stefano Poli, and MBA alumnus Hans Ottosen launch new tech system for shipping
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April 2019 Interview with Bader Al-Attar on his experience in IMD’s Advanced Management Program
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March 2019 Georgios Sioutis was preparing for a new career challenge and was therefore looking for a focused program in Strategic Partnerships. He says the program quickly led to him successfully applying his...
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March 2019 In depth interview with Galina Antova, IMD MBA alumna whose ambitions and business smarts led her to the top. She believes gender equality isn’t a women’s issue — it’s a human one.
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March 2019 Alumni from IMD's High Performance Board (HPB) program reflect on what they learned and how listening to speakers and fellow participants has helped them to have a positive impact on their own boards.
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February 2019 For Yumiko Toeda, International Women's Day on March 8 is a day to think about how to help bring about a more gender equal society. However, she admits that, before attending IMD's women-only...
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February 2019 Suzanne Kroeks, an alumna from the Mobilizing People, discusses the impact of her experience at IMD, on the occasion of International Women's Day
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February 2019 Interview of Professor Michael Wade in the Norwegian business magazine Kapital
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February 2019 OWP is a chance to gain new knowledge and lead an organization in the right direction. While some companies bring different members of their executive team, the Irish Sea Fisheries Board selected...
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February 2019 Years of travelling to explore different food cultures has led an IMD alumna to create a restaurant business whose eateries offer dishes from around the world. Skills learned during her MBA...
Read more February 2019 Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) provides sessions that address a whole range of hot topics affecting business leadership today. These include subjects as varied as analytics and...
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February 2019 In depth interview of a participant of IMD’s digital programs, Ann-Christin Andersen
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January 2019 In his spare time, Jean-François Vryens likes to hike in the mountains. For over a decade the CEO of Indufin has traveled to iconic ranges like the Himalayas to walk, climb and get away from his...
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December 2018 IMD alumnus François Gabella still approaches business challenges using the skills he learned over 30 years ago during his MBA program. Every year, he also attends get-togethers at the Alumni Club...
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December 2018 Interview of Hideto Yamauchi, President & Representative Director at Heraeus Japan, who has stepped up to new challenges thanks to IMD's EMBA program.
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November 2018 Daniel De Swaan discusses his experience in the program before taking the lead role at Meijers Insurance in the Netherlands
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November 2018 IAN STEWART – MBA Class of 1987 – Co-Founder WiReD Magazine, Chairman WheelsPlusWings Foundation
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November 2018 Simone Giandolfi's career in sales took off thanks to his ambition and desire to stand out from the crowd. Attending IMD's Strategic Thinking program was, for him, a defining moment in his career...
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November 2018 Yelena Tagiyeva attended the Disruptive Innovation program to help her make the right decisions when setting up her yoga and mindfulness training website and teaching programs. It helped her...
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November 2018 In addition to its degree granting, open enrollment programs, and custom programs, IMD also has a growing suite of highly personalized online courses that cover topics ranging from leadership...
Read more March 2017 IMD Professor, hostage negotiator and award-winning author, George Kohlrieser believes that it’s important to give back and create an impact for future generations. For three years, Professor...
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March 2017 Jean-Francois Vryens is a re gular at IMD, where he has been attending a program roughly every two years since 2006. “IMD has become my life toolbox.” He also goes on yearly two-week high...
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March 2017 Qin Li is a German national originally from the Shanghai area who has made Europe her home over the past few years. She joined IMD’s MBA class recently for an intensive year of studies on...
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February 2017 When Alexander (aka Sascha) Majarek enrolled in one of the ten IMD Global Leadership in the Cloud programs, he says that his expectations were high. “But the learning experience outperformed...
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February 2017 Sheer determination and a taste for innovation have been the main motors of Manish Kapoor’s career. For over years, he has successfully turned markets around for American Express India, where he...
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February 2017 Satakarni Makkapati completed IMD’s executive MBA in 2015. Armed with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, Satakarni is President at Aurobindo Pharma. Respected for being a classmate whose input...
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February 2017 Serco is a vast corporation about which most of us know very little. Globally, the public services company operates across four regions – the UK and Europe, ASPAC, North America and the Middle East...
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February 2017 Johan Slotte has been deputy CEO at Teleste, a Finnish technology company that offers broadband video and data communication networks and services since 2007, and has held senior executive positions...
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February 2017 Challenge Innovation is not the first word that comes to mind when speaking of the pharmaceutical industry, but without creative research and development, new and differentiated products would...
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