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Sustainability
Strategy
Winning sustainability strategies
As the expectations on corporate responsibility increase, and as transparency becomes more prevalent, companies are recognizing the need to act on sustainability. Professional communications and good intentions are no longer enough. Winning Sustainability Strategies helps executives aiming to create a thriving, sustainable future for their busin…
Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Gold Award – Best Advance in Education Delivered Through Technology
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Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
Norway’s financial services group DNB entered the 2020s on a
high note of best-ever quarterly performance; a highly diverse
workforce; and great strides in rolling out innovative services.
Nonetheless, its top management was conscious that the company needed to strengthen the way it collaborated along functional and divisional lines. The chal…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2022 Silver Award
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Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
Talent Management
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond: An ambitious next level talent development program
In 2018, OCP Group – the Moroccan-based world leader in plant nutrition and phosphate industry, and one of the most important employers of the private sector in the country – was a decade into an ambitious transformation program to capture higher value-added downstream business opportunities. To achieve its growth ambitions, it needed to develop…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2022 Gold Award
Case Study
Sustainability
Strategy
General Management
Social Innovation
Schneider Electric: Becoming the world leader in sustainability
Schneider Electric is a multinational company providing energy management and automation. The case briefly outlines the company’s history and describes the progressive integration of sustainability efforts into its overall strategy. This 20-year journey culminates in 2021 when Corporate Knights ranked Schneider Electric No. 1 worldwide for its s…
2nd prize in the 2022 HEC CSR Challenge case writing competition
Case Study
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Supply Chain
Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Lionheart Agrotech Limited, the holding company of Lionheart Farms is developing a large-scale sustainable hybrid coconut plantation with integrated processing and manufacturing capacities in the Philippines. The case describes the idea of the founders, their journey, the challenges they met and how they solved them. The case explores the key c…
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Case Study
Strategy
Growth
Customer Centricity
Sustainability
Kinto: Toyota’s new mobility services platform
In 2019, Toyota launched KINTO, its new mobility services brand, in Europe – to address the increasing shift in consumer preferences from ownership to on-demand usership. KINTO was only the third brand to be launched by Toyota in its history (after Toyota and Lexus). This signaled to the market that the world’s largest automaker was serious abou…
2nd prize in the 2022 John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition
Academic publications
Article
Supply Chain
Assortment optimization using an attraction model in an omnichannel environment
Making assortment decisions is becoming an increasingly difficult task for many retailers worldwide as they implement omnichannel initiatives. Discrete choice modeling lies at the core of this challenge, yet existing models do not sufficiently account for the complex shopping behavior of customers in an omnichannel environment. In this paper, we…
Assortment optimization using an attraction model in an omnichannel environment
Summary
Making assortment decisions is becoming an increasingly difficult task for many retailers worldwide as they implement omnichannel initiatives. Discrete choice modeling lies at the core of this challenge, yet existing models do not sufficiently account for the complex shopping behavior of customers in an omnichannel environment. In this paper, we…
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Accounting
Corporate Governance
The future role of internal audit function: Assure. Build. Consult
Chambers (2022) recently raised “a red flag” by pointing out that internal auditors have been unduly placing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks on the back burner. Internal auditors currently do not play a significant role as assurance providers and are absent from potential advisory services about ESG – on both sides of the Atlan…
The future role of internal audit function: Assure. Build. Consult
Summary
Chambers (2022) recently raised “a red flag” by pointing out that internal auditors have been unduly placing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks on the back burner. Internal auditors currently do not play a significant role as assurance providers and are absent from potential advisory services about ESG – on both sides of the Atlan…
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Family Business
Ethics
Wrongdoing in publicly listed family- and nonfamily-owned firms: A behavioral perspective
We integrate research on family-owned firms (FOFs) and the Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTOF) to study wrongdoing—a specific dimension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) associated with destructive risk—in family- versus nonfamily-owned firms (NFOFs). We argue that FOFs are likely to respond differently from NFOFs to risks because in add…
Wrongdoing in publicly listed family- and nonfamily-owned firms: A behavioral perspective
Summary
We integrate research on family-owned firms (FOFs) and the Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTOF) to study wrongdoing—a specific dimension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) associated with destructive risk—in family- versus nonfamily-owned firms (NFOFs). We argue that FOFs are likely to respond differently from NFOFs to risks because in add…
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Human Resources
Ethics
Technology Management
Applicants’ fairness perceptions of algorithm-driven hiring procedures
Despite the rapid adoption of technology in human resource departments, there is little empirical work that examines the potential challenges of algorithmic decision-making in the recruitment process. In this paper, we take the perspective of job applicants and examine how they perceive the use of algorithms in selection and recruitment. Across …
Applicants’ fairness perceptions of algorithm-driven hiring procedures
Summary
Despite the rapid adoption of technology in human resource departments, there is little empirical work that examines the potential challenges of algorithmic decision-making in the recruitment process. In this paper, we take the perspective of job applicants and examine how they perceive the use of algorithms in selection and recruitment. Across …
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Digital
Supply Chain
Utilizing additive manufacturing and mass customization under capacity constraints
Additive manufacturing (AM), originally used for prototyping, is increasingly adopted for custom final part production across different industries. However, printing speed and production volume are two barriers for the adoption of AM for product customization at large scale. Nevertheless, manufacturers could aim to combine the benefits of AM for…
Utilizing additive manufacturing and mass customization under capacity constraints
Summary
Additive manufacturing (AM), originally used for prototyping, is increasingly adopted for custom final part production across different industries. However, printing speed and production volume are two barriers for the adoption of AM for product customization at large scale. Nevertheless, manufacturers could aim to combine the benefits of AM for…
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Finance
Economics
Re-use of collateral: Leverage, volatility, and welfare
We assess the implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within a calibrated infinite-horizon asset-pricing model with heterogeneous agents and disaster shocks. In our model, the ability of agents to reuse frees up collateral that can be used to back more transactions. Re-use thus contributes to the buildup of leverag…
Re-use of collateral: Leverage, volatility, and welfare
Summary
We assess the implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within a calibrated infinite-horizon asset-pricing model with heterogeneous agents and disaster shocks. In our model, the ability of agents to reuse frees up collateral that can be used to back more transactions. Re-use thus contributes to the buildup of leverag…
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Case studies
Case Study
Entrepreneurship
Family Business
Leadership
Sustainability
Maria Ahlström-Bondestam: Together everyone achieves more (Video case)
This case presents the unique approach to philanthropy of the Ahlström family. A group of 25 fifth-generation female Ahlström family members founded the Eva Ahlström foundation in 2010, in the name of the family matriarch Eva Ahlström (1848–1920), who was a big contributor to society in her time. This led to the establishment of the Ahlström Co…
Case Study
Strategy
Disruption
General Management
Leadership
Outpacing strategy and business trajectory management
Outpacing strategy, first described by IMD professors Xavier Gilbert and Paul Strebel, is based on the ability to shift strategic innovation between perceived product value (the quality of the value proposition) and delivered cost (the efficiency of the value delivery system). First movers with an outpacing strategy gain a competitive advantage …
Case Study
Disruption
Strategy
General Management
Industry breakpoints and business model evolution
Industry breakpoints were identified by IMD Professor Paul Strebel before the disruptive technology innovations described by Clayton Christensen. Breakpoints are characterized by “A new offering to the market that is so much superior that it changes the rules of the competitive game, accompanied by a sharp shift in the industry’s growth rate and…
Case Study
Digital
Disruption
Sustainability
Global Business
Leadership
Strategy
Future-proofing HEINEKEN: The EverGreen strategy
Dolf van den Brink, CEO of HEINEKEN, left the company’s global headquarters in Amsterdam for a company retreat. Over the next three days, the entire executive team would gather to discuss the company’s future. The preliminary results for 2022, presented during the recent two-day Capital Markets Event, were positive, and the company’s progress on…
Case Study
Disruption
General Management
Global Business
Strategy
Swarovski: How to shine through stormy weather?
It was on Monday. 4 July 2022, when Swarovski’s newly appointed, first-ever external CEO, Alexis Nasard, began his challenging journey of guiding the company back to a profitable growth trajectory. In past years, Swarovski experienced strong market growth and share gains from its well-established position in the costume jewelry segment. However,…
Case Study
General Management
Sustainability
Corporate Governance
Tyre Recycling Solutions: What goes around comes around
Old tires are cumbersome, environmentally unfriendly and materially complex. A cost-effective, sustainable technological solution for dealing with them could contribute significantly to the circular economy and generate major social and economic benefits. The Swiss-based company Tyre Recycling Solutions has developed a breakthrough technology wi…
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Article
Strategy
Sustainability
EverGreen – the futureproofing of HEINEKEN
Niccolò Pisani, IMD Professor of Strategy and International Business, explores HEINEKEN’s ambitious and all-encompassing strategy for sustainable growth, launched amid a global pandemic.
Article
Coaching
Culture
Organizational Behavior
Lessons from military leadership: The importance of morale
Since the pandemic, we have been seeking to describe the phenomenon of how feelings impact performance. We explored resilience, well-being, and self-care, meandering through agility and mental health.
Article
Leadership
Politics
Global Business
Trade barriers and political upheaval: What to expect in 2023
From global supply chains to monetary policy and climate change, IMD experts give their predictions for a potentially turbulent year ahead.
Article
Sustainability
Climate change: Why business schools are failing
We are faced with an existential challenge that requires radical action. Tomorrow’s business leaders must learn to think critically about their role in society and how they will practice their craft in order to bring about change.
Article
Competitiveness
Customer Centricity
Customer loyalty is a myth, just ask my taxi driver
In his new book The Human Experience, John Sills explains why the “usefulness” of a retailer or service provider is far more important than any misplaced notions of fidelity.
Article
Human Resources
This startup calculator can predict the employment impact of recessions
By measuring employment at startups across different recessionary scenarios, researchers have been able to predict the potential economic impact of future pandemics
Insights for practitioners
Article
Strategy
Sustainability
EverGreen – the futureproofing of HEINEKEN
Niccolò Pisani, IMD Professor of Strategy and International Business, explores HEINEKEN’s ambitious and all-encompassing strategy for sustainable growth, launched amid a global pandemic.
Article
Coaching
Culture
Organizational Behavior
Lessons from military leadership: The importance of morale
Since the pandemic, we have been seeking to describe the phenomenon of how feelings impact performance. We explored resilience, well-being, and self-care, meandering through agility and mental health.
Article
Finance
Anticiper la catastrophe, un devoir pour les investisseurs
Thinking the impossible is no more within the reach of market professionals than it is for ordinary people. The Covid-19 pandemic, a century after the global tragedy of the Spanish flu, showed this. This event was so improbable and of such catastrophic consequence – a “black swan”, according to the notion coined in 2007 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb …
Anticiper la catastrophe, un devoir pour les investisseurs
Summary
Thinking the impossible is no more within the reach of market professionals than it is for ordinary people. The Covid-19 pandemic, a century after the global tragedy of the Spanish flu, showed this. This event was so improbable and of such catastrophic consequence – a “black swan”, according to the notion coined in 2007 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb …
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Leadership
Talent Management
10 “people” mistakes leaders make
Much of today’s leadership writing focuses on what high performing leaders should do. Certainly, that material helps from a theoretical and aspirational point of view. Yet what really haunts leaders on a day-to-day basis is the mistakes that they make. They don’t trip up because they are bad people; they most often fumble because of a lack of kn…
Article
Economics
Politics
La Chine va encore bouleverser l’économie mondiale
After 1016 days of zero covid policy, China has decided to open up again to the rest of the world. The impact on our economies will be considerable. But is this good news or bad news? Probably both. In forty years, China has become the largest supplier to the world economy. But it is also the largest buyer. In 2021, the top 200 U.S., European an…
La Chine va encore bouleverser l’économie mondiale
Summary
After 1016 days of zero covid policy, China has decided to open up again to the rest of the world. The impact on our economies will be considerable. But is this good news or bad news? Probably both. In forty years, China has become the largest supplier to the world economy. But it is also the largest buyer. In 2021, the top 200 U.S., European an…
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Technology Management
Meta pumped cash into a futuristic vision, but they didn’t prepare for a recession
Meta suffered another blow last week, as the European Union ruled their ad practices in Ireland illegal. The decision resulted in a fine of €390m, which Meta is appealing, and shows yet another issue in the company’s business model and future-preparedness.
Meta pumped cash into a futuristic vision, but they didn’t prepare for a recession
Summary
Meta suffered another blow last week, as the European Union ruled their ad practices in Ireland illegal. The decision resulted in a fine of €390m, which Meta is appealing, and shows yet another issue in the company’s business model and future-preparedness.
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Books
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Competitiveness
Strategy
Digital
The future of competitive strategy: Unleashing the power of data and digital ecosystems
How can legacy firms remain relevant in the digital era? In The Future of Competitive Strategy, strategic management expert Mohan Subramaniam explains how firms can leverage both their traditional strengths and the modern-day power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy. Drawing on the experiences of a range of compan…
Book
Communication
Clean language interviewing: Principles and applications for researchers and practitioners
Combining academic rigour with real application examples, a global range of contributors analyse the use of Clean Language Interviewing in multiple settings including business, education, and healthcare.
Clean language interviewing: Principles and applications for researchers and practitioners
Summary
Combining academic rigour with real application examples, a global range of contributors analyse the use of Clean Language Interviewing in multiple settings including business, education, and healthcare.
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Economics
Competitiveness
Leadership
The future is young: How technology, talent and innovation can help us face the most pressing challenges of our time
Amid this fast and disorienting pace of change, many are instinctively looking to political leaders and world-renowned experts for answers. As a result, important conversations that should be going on have been conspicuous by their absence. In particular, these are conversations that should involve young people. If new paradigms are emerging tha…
Book
Decision Making
Solvable: A simple solution to complex problems
Problem solving skills are in high demand, yet we’re not taught how to develop and apply these skills appropriately. Solvable offers a simple solution with a 3-step process—Frame, Explore, Decide—and concrete tools that you can use to become a better problem solver and successfully engage relevant people, whatever the challenge you face.
Book
Competitiveness
Economics
Data Analytics
IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook: 2022
The 34th edition of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook is being launched at a moment of tremendous turmoil. COVID-19 continues to affect large parts of the world. Interestingly, while in some countries comprehensive efforts are being made to return to a state of normalcy, other parts of the world are experiencing a massive rise in the number…
Book
Sustainability
Board
The double-edged sword of corporate boards in the environmental actions of firms
Environmental issues, which encompass combatting climate change and global warming, are increasingly positioned at the top of board agendas. consequently, board policies are increasingly used as the means to reduce environmental footprint of a firm. The central aim of this book is to uncover theoretical foundations and provide solid empirical ev…
The double-edged sword of corporate boards in the environmental actions of firms
Summary
Environmental issues, which encompass combatting climate change and global warming, are increasingly positioned at the top of board agendas. consequently, board policies are increasingly used as the means to reduce environmental footprint of a firm. The central aim of this book is to uncover theoretical foundations and provide solid empirical ev…
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Language
English
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