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Fatih Birol explains the age of electricity and how AI, data centers, and electrification are reshaping geopolitics, policy, and risk.

Does your board view sustainability as resilience and long-term value? Discover seven tests to guide strategic, value-driven sustainability decisions.

Former COFCO International CEO shares leadership lessons on globalization, cross-cultural management, and building a global agricultural business.

The case investigates the supported search fund model pioneered by Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA) through which mid-career executives can achieve their dreams of becoming entrepreneurs though the acquisition of an SME. NCA provides support through the various phases of the program, from talent selection, training, target searches, due diligence, M&A, value creation and exit engineering.

HubSpot CPO Helen Russell argues that leaders need to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and master three key skills to thrive in an AI-driven world​.

Senior leaders rarely get their most important work done by issuing orders. A CTO cannot compel a partner firm, a dean cannot order a faculty to embrace a curriculum, a ministry cannot be forced to share data. On the questions that matter, outcomes depend on people with agendas and loyalties of their own. This note details a two-part discipline for understanding and influencing stakeholders. The diagnostic section asks who can affect the outcome, where their influence comes from and how things look from their side. It challenges common intuitions: coalitions beat individuals, intensity beats headcount, friendships are not alliances, and the fiercest resistance defends identity and legacy, so no concession will buy it off. Tools include the influence-alignment matrix, network mapping, listening tours, decision archaeology and force-field analysis. The strategic section converts diagnosis into movement, i.e. how to: frame each ask in the currency the audience values, sequence conversations so support accumulates before the decisive meeting, secure small commitments and avoid reactive coalition building, where a leader's own defensiveness unites opponents who agree on nothing else. Written for leaders in business, universities, government and non-profits, the note compares stakeholder management challenges across sectors and closes with a transparency test separating influence from manipulation. A companion exercise (IMD-2789-E) turns the frameworks into a plan for a live challenge.

Sunrise demonstrates how HR metrics map to business goals, boosting loyalty and performance through clear ownership and cross‑functional collaboration.

Over the past years profound changes in the public sentiment and policy environment suggest the beginning of a new era with reversal attitudes towards globalization. Deglobalization which is commonly defined as the process of decreasing interdepen...

Are you acting as a corporate shock absorber? Learn how middle managers can stop absorbing organizational friction and frame it as business risk.