IMD Impact Stories
Showcasing the impact for participants and companies in IMD’s open, online, customized, EMBA and MBA programs.
October 2019 Interview with Milena Amaral, IMD EMBA graduate (2014) and fashion industry entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Neovili
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September 2019 Interview with Smita Suchde Gruetter, IMD EMBA graduate (2016), serial entrepreneur and philanthropist
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June 2019 Brigitte Urban, Head of Service Engineering at Siemens Mobility GmbH, has become the 1000th executive to choose IMD’s Leading Digital Business Transformation (LDBT) program
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June 2019 Pablo Percelsi’s career has often placed him in closer proximity to the world’s battle fields than its board rooms. Even so, completing IMD’s EMBA with executives from the world of business has led...
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May 2019 "IMD's MBA Career Development Center directly helped me get my job by initiating contact with prospect companies." "Right from the onset of the MBA program, in fact even before, the IMD MBA careers...
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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.
Read more 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...
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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.
Read more 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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