IMD Impact Stories
Showcasing the impact for participants and companies in IMD’s open, online, customized, EMBA and MBA programs.
June 2018 IMD’s program The First 90-Days is an interactive, 2-day learning journey, where executives in new leadership positions diagnose the situations they have inherited, define strategic direction...
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May 2018 Deepak Tewari is CEO of Privately SA, a Swiss company focusing on online data protection and privacy for children. He completed his MBA at IMD in 2007. IMD recently caught up with Deepak to discuss...
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April 2018 Travelling to Singapore for Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) in November 2017 was, for Akihito, the first time he had experienced such a learning opportunity outside of Japan. Knowing that...
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March 2018 IMD recently ran its TransformTECH program for the first time. In the program, participants learn to harness new technologies to transform their business. IMD had the pleasure of welcoming Sylvie...
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March 2018 On the occasion of International Women’s Day IMD caught up with Anca Burca who graduated from IMD’s MBA class of 2015. Anca focuses on Digital & Business Strategy Transformation at Optimity...
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March 2018 IMD is proud to honor Sonia Sachdeva, IMD MBA 2018 candidate, on International Woman’s Day. Sonia was chosen as the recipient of the Nestlé Scholarship for Women among many outstanding...
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February 2018 IMD just ran its TransformTECH program for the first time. In the program participants learn to harness new technologies to transform their business. IMD had the pleasure of welcoming Michael...
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February 2018 IMD just ran its TransformTECH program for the first time. In the program participants learn to harness new technology to transform their business. IMD had the pleasure of welcoming Niels Lunde...
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February 2018 Ramiro Villagra knew straightaway that the IMD MBA was exactly what he was looking for. The comprehensive program with an emphasis on leadership was the perfect match. After four years as COO...
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February 2018 Brazil-born Pedro Augusto Kniphoff was looking to expand his horizons. After almost a decade with the food and beverages conglomerate BRF S.A., where he rapidly worked his way up from credit...
Read more February 2018 Xenia Baranova works as Commercial Director for the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, whose mission is to design and manufacture new models of commercial aircraft. Headquartered in Moscow, its...
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February 2018 Domenico de Luca: As CEO of Axpo Trading it is key for me to be directly involved in the digital transformation of our business. Participating in the Leading Digital Business Transformation...
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January 2018 Ivan knows the IMD campus in Lausanne only too well. In 2008 he attended the Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) program, before participating in Building on Talent (BOT) in 2010, later attending...
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January 2018 As a young sales and marketing manager for Tequila Fortaleza, a drinks company based in the San Diego area, Billy Erickson was the perfect candidate for a program that targets younger generations...
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December 2017 An important part of Maria Belentsova's working ethos is rooted in a question she asks herself on a daily basis: how best to bring added value to the business? She found that this same question...
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December 2017 WOODS STATON – MBA Class of 1976 – Executive Chairman, Arcos Dorados
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December 2017 RICHARD SLOVENSKI – MBA Class of 1999 – Vice President Analysis and Improvement, BHP Billiton Marketing Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
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December 2017 IAN STEWART – MBA Class of 1987 – Co-Founder WiReD Magazine, Chairman WheelsPlusWings Foundation
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December 2017 BRYAN HASSIN – MBA Class of 2008 – Cofounder and CEO, Smart Office Energy Solutions –focusing on green energy technologies
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December 2017 LIANA LOGIURATO – MBA Class of 1997 – Global Head of M&A, Syngenta International AG
Read more 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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