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Digital
Technology Management
How digital is making luxury (relatively) more democratic
Luxury brands have come a long way since the early 2010s when they were in denial of e-commerce. Across sectors, luxury actors are now embracing digital opportunities throughout their operations and business models. To do this, they are partnering with cutting edge technology inventors such as Accenture. Along the way, it’s the strategic posture…
How digital is making luxury (relatively) more democratic
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Luxury brands have come a long way since the early 2010s when they were in denial of e-commerce. Across sectors, luxury actors are now embracing digital opportunities throughout their operations and business models. To do this, they are partnering with cutting edge technology inventors such as Accenture. Along the way, it’s the strategic posture…
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Sustainability
Strategy
Global Business
Businesses are forging ahead with climate action
The recent COP27 meeting made only limited headway on measures to tackle climate change, but climate action by companies gives more grounds for optimism, and the current challenging economic and geopolitical environment is not going to divert businesses from their net-zero commitments, WBCSD CEO Peter Bakker tells Knut Haanaes
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Strategy
Culture
Innovation
Leadership
Competitiveness
Align strategy and culture for a competitive edge
Leaders can harness their attention, motivation, capabilities and capacity to link strategy with culture, and reap benefits for every stakeholder.
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Family Business
Identity in family firms: Toward an integrative understanding
To take stock of the literature on identity in family firms (IFF), we examine 122 journal articles published between 2006 and 2020. We then develop a thematic map to help scholars understand the structure of IFF studies and the direction that IFF research is taking. Providing a consistent vocabulary and categorization, the thematic map serves to…
Identity in family firms: Toward an integrative understanding
Summary
To take stock of the literature on identity in family firms (IFF), we examine 122 journal articles published between 2006 and 2020. We then develop a thematic map to help scholars understand the structure of IFF studies and the direction that IFF research is taking. Providing a consistent vocabulary and categorization, the thematic map serves to…
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Innovation
Mindfulness
How mindfulness cultivates creativity and innovation
Promoting “organizational mindfulness” can help foster creativity and innovation – two indispensable elements for a company’s success and sustainability, says Faisal Hoque.
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Leadership
Economics
Strategy
How to be a good leader in a bad economy
“My days are full of turnabouts. I have to go back on promises, reshuffle priorities, and I second-guess too much. It’s wearing on me, and I feel like I am spending hard-earned goodwill,” a member of an executive leadership team told me in one of our sessions. “I want to pause for a moment and talk about how I can be a good leader in a bad econo…
How to be a good leader in a bad economy
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“My days are full of turnabouts. I have to go back on promises, reshuffle priorities, and I second-guess too much. It’s wearing on me, and I feel like I am spending hard-earned goodwill,” a member of an executive leadership team told me in one of our sessions. “I want to pause for a moment and talk about how I can be a good leader in a bad econo…
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Family Business
Sustainability
Politics
Von einer Krise zur nächsten? Familienunternehmen im 21. Jahrhundert
War in Ukraine, economic consequences of the pandemic, climate change, structural change – family businesses in Europe are currently facing many challenges. How can you overcome these? And how can SME policy support them in this? Based on their respective scientific research results, Friederike Welter, Alfredo De Massis, Arnis Sauka and Ute Step…
Von einer Krise zur nächsten? Familienunternehmen im 21. Jahrhundert
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War in Ukraine, economic consequences of the pandemic, climate change, structural change – family businesses in Europe are currently facing many challenges. How can you overcome these? And how can SME policy support them in this? Based on their respective scientific research results, Friederike Welter, Alfredo De Massis, Arnis Sauka and Ute Step…
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Leadership
How “nudges” can prompt changes in behavior
Acknowledging the importance of “nudging” on the informal networks that make up an organization’s central nervous system is important, as it is this central nervous system that needs to learn and adopt new behaviors and attitudes, says Bettina Büchel.
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Economics
Politics
Leadership
Les chefs d’entreprise devraient-ils être des diplomates?
In any case, they have to try. At a recent conference in Hong Kong, UBS Chairman Colm Kelleher said, “We don’t read the American press, we actually believe what China says.” Obviously, this made people happy in China; elsewhere, a little less so. A little later, Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, tried to correct the record…
Les chefs d’entreprise devraient-ils être des diplomates?
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In any case, they have to try. At a recent conference in Hong Kong, UBS Chairman Colm Kelleher said, “We don’t read the American press, we actually believe what China says.” Obviously, this made people happy in China; elsewhere, a little less so. A little later, Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, tried to correct the record…
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Leadership
Team
How to mega dive, with professor Cyril Bouquet
IMD Professor Cyril Bouquet talks about the importance of leadership and how businesses can prepare for a mega dive
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Strategy
Swiss Re CEO: Negative effects of the pandemic may last for “two decades”
In conversation with IMD’s Jean-François Manzoni at the Nikkei Global Management Forum, Swiss Re’s Christian Mumenthaler talked about his prediction and highlighted the need for companies to work across value chains to improve their collective environmental footprint.
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Digital
Technology Management
Disruption disrupted: How new digital developments can put legacy firms back in pole position
Drawing on insights explored in greater depth in his new book, The Future of Competitive Strategy, in this article Professor Subramaniam outlines the growing opportunities available to firms with a long pre-Internet history and a substantial industry presence – the “legacy” companies.
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Leadership
Entrepreneurship
I failed but emerged stronger from the experience
Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm’s dreams of glory were crushed in a David and Goliath battle with Mark Zuckerberg, but he firmly believes that failure can be a springboard to success if managed well.
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Leadership
Strategy
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO and chairman of Schneider Electric, discusses how decentralization drives his corporate thinking
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Digital
Technology Management
Growth
Victims of their own success
The world’s largest technology companies have delivered stellar growth, but the good times may prove their eventual undoing, argues Mike Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy at IMD Business School; Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation
