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Geopolitics
Oona Hathaway, should we still believe in the global order?
April 23, 2026 • by David Bach in Leaders Unplugged • 
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Oona Hathaway on war, global rules, and why business leaders may regret staying silent as international law is violated....
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Potong: Rethinking legacy in a family business
Chef Pam transformed a 120-year-old family business into a Michelin-starred restaurant, showing how heritage can fuel innovation and competitive edge
Podcast Series
CEO Dialogue
Jean-François Manzoni, President of IMD, hosts frank discussions with CEOs of companies including Nestlé, AstraZeneca and many more.
Leaner, cleaner, faster, stronger: How ABB is reshaping an engineering icon for the future
How Hindustan Unilever is winning over India’s middle class
Why Novo Nordisk’s CEO has learned to trust his gut feeling
ACWA Power’s Marco Arcelli: ‘I’m the Chief Facilitating Officer’
Henkel’s Carsten Knobel: A CEO who sticks to his strategy
Antoine de Saint-Affrique
Should I Fly
In a rapidly warming, post-pandemic world, Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller set out to answer one simple question: Should I fly?
The Interview
With great power comes great responsibility. Leaders of organizations from Alvanon to Zurich Zoo share insights on their own journeys.
It is a strength, not a weakness to say ‘I don’t know’
The Interview: Didier Cossin on high-performance boards
ACE Founders, with Ian Charles Stewart and François Randin
‘Cognitive’ technology and smart thinking: redefining city living
How AI gives Taobao’s one billion customers the personal touch
Reframing the role of anxiety in leadership
Management under the microscope
With the help of some of the world’s leading academics and executives, Professor Michael Wade turns six “accepted truths” on their heads.
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Entrepreneurs like to gamble
March 31, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • 
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We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...
ShareChinese companies don’t innovate
March 25, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
Leaders are born, not made
March 18, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....