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Report Competitiveness Sustainability
IMD Smart City Index 2023
The only global index of its kind, the IMD Smart City Index 2023 uniquely focuses on how residents perceive the scope and impact of efforts to make their cities ‘smart’, that is, employ technology to address the ongoing challenges their city has, while balancing “economic and technological aspects” with “humane dimensions”.
By Arturo Bris Christos Cabolis Bruno Lanvin José Caballero Marco Pistis and Maryam Zargari
IMD World Competitiveness Center Report, 4 April 2023
Report Family Business Sustainability
Navigating your family’s philanthropic future across generations
We live in a world of unprecedented change and transformation, in which world leaders are increasingly uncertain about how to tackle the many new challenges confronting humanity. Amid the global health and economic crisis, enterprising families worldwide are reminded of the timeless truth that a business can only prosper if the community in whic…
By Peter Vogel and Malgorzata Smulowitz
IMD Global Family Business Center Report, December 2022
Report 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
By Benoit F. Leleux Jan Van der Kaaij Christine Weinmann Catherine Agamis Robbie Cairns and Paul Hunter
December 2022
Winning sustainability strategies
Report Competitiveness Talent Management
IMD World Talent Ranking 2022
As talent migration patterns remain unpredictable, governments and businesses attract local and foreign talent by boosting overall appeal of their economies. Global economies are reassessing the balance between cultivating domestic and international talent, in a bid to compensate for skilled labor losses as a result of travel constraints and loc…
By Arturo Bris Christos Cabolis Marco Pistis and José Caballero
December 2022
Report Economics Sustainability
Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index
Global trade has helped lift hundreds of millions of people around the world out of poverty, but the benefits of trade do not come without their risks. If an economy is unprepared for the consequences of trade growth, it may result in labor disruption, environmental degradation, and worsening inequality. Proactive and responsible government poli…
By Arturo Bris Kathryn Dioth Christos Cabolis Marco Pistis José Caballero William Milner and Maryam Zargari
November 2022
Report Digital Sustainability Ethics
Getting started in digital responsibility
The benefits of digital technologies are well-known by now. They can be a critical element of business growth, innovation, and operational continuity. The adoption of digital technologies has been linked to organizational benefits, such as enhancing product and service innovativeness (Blichfeldt & Faullant, 2021), improving efficiency (Subramaniam,…
By Tomoko Yokoi Lazaros Goutas and Michael R. Wade
Global Center for Digital Business Transformation Report, October 2022
Report Digital Competitiveness
IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2022
Now in its sixth year, the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking, produced by the IMD World Competitiveness Center, measures the capacity and readiness of 63 economies to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society. Based on a mixture of hard data and survey rep…
By Arturo Bris Christos Cabolis José Caballero and Marco Pistis
28 September 2022, 6th edition
Report Finance Sustainability Social Innovation
Impact management: A market analysis of impact objectives and firm policies
Sustainable financial products are rapidly growing. According to the 2021 Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study, sustainable investing assets increased 31% from 2019 to 2020, reaching a total of CHF 1,520.2 billion. On the level of sustainable funds, volumes increased to CHF 694.5 billion and now represent 52% of the overall Swiss fund marke…
By Vanina Farber and Patrick Reichert
IMD & Impact Finance Report, June 2022
Impact management: A market analysis of impact objectives and firm policies
By Vanina Farber and Patrick Reichert
IMD & Impact Finance Report, June 2022
Summary
Sustainable financial products are rapidly growing. According to the 2021 Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study, sustainable investing assets increased 31% from 2019 to 2020, reaching a total of CHF 1,520.2 billion. On the level of sustainable funds, volumes increased to CHF 694.5 billion and now represent 52% of the overall Swiss fund marke…
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Report Leadership Agility
Making a paradigm shift in leadership development
As highlighted in this report, the realities of a tsunami of change and uncertainty has brought into sharp relief a critical number of leadership skills and attribute that are essential components of a leader’s tool kit.
By Winter Nie and Gillian Pillans
Corporate Research Forum Report, May 2022
Report 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 Awards 2022 Silver Award
By Ina Toegel and Martin Králik
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
Report 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
By Bettina Büchel and Nancy Lane
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond. An ambitious next level talent development program
Report Innovation
Exploratory podcast: When you have something to teach, but even more to learn
The UNICON Research Committee is pleased to offer this paper by Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller for discussion. It differs from most UNICON research, which involves collection of quantitative and qualitative data, by providing a personal and first-hand example of pedagogical innovation and insights from two faculty members with deep experie…
By Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller
April 2022, Unicon (Consortium for University-Based Executive Education), Discussion Paper
Exploratory podcast: When you have something to teach, but even more to learn
By Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller
April 2022, Unicon (Consortium for University-Based Executive Education), Discussion Paper
Summary
The UNICON Research Committee is pleased to offer this paper by Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller for discussion. It differs from most UNICON research, which involves collection of quantitative and qualitative data, by providing a personal and first-hand example of pedagogical innovation and insights from two faculty members with deep experie…
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Report Family Business
Future wealth management
Creating the double-digit growth that family businesses need in order to ensure that the generations maintain the wealth of the business is a tall order in a world gripped by crisis. And it’s a big responsibility for you as NextGens to inherit. As noted, family businesses that haven’t fully embraced ESG are already underperforming their nonfami…
By Peter Vogel
Published as a chapter (pp. 17-18) in PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2022: Today and beyond: The next generation challenges the status quo of family business
Future wealth management
By Peter Vogel
Published as a chapter (pp. 17-18) in PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2022: Today and beyond: The next generation challenges the status quo of family business
Summary
Creating the double-digit growth that family businesses need in order to ensure that the generations maintain the wealth of the business is a tall order in a world gripped by crisis. And it’s a big responsibility for you as NextGens to inherit. As noted, family businesses that haven’t fully embraced ESG are already underperforming their nonfami…
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Report Competitiveness Talent Management
IMD World Talent Ranking 2021
Switzerland leads the top 10 economies in the IMD 2021 World Talent Ranking 2021, showing a pandemic-induced trend in which employees are more motivated in more competitive economies and less so in non-competitive ones. Sweden is 2nd (up from 5th in 2020 in the same ranking), Luxembourg 3rd (also 3rd in 2020), Norway 4th, and Denmark 5th. Switze…
By Arturo Bris Christos Cabolis José Caballero Marco Pistis and Maryam Zargari
December 2021
Report Sustainability Leadership
Business schools for climate leadership
CHAPTER 5 (IMD contribution) Climate change and Business Transformation: As we act to mitigate and adapt to climate change, we are undergoing the biggest business transformation the world has ever faced. To capture some of the opportunities presented by this transformation, companies should anchor a commitment to climate in their purpose and set…
By Knut Bjarne Haanaes Natalia Olynec Julia Binder and et al.
10 November 2021 / Chapter 5 by IMD: “Climate Change & Business Transformation,” pp. 53-64
Business schools for climate leadership
By Knut Bjarne Haanaes Natalia Olynec Julia Binder and et al.
10 November 2021 / Chapter 5 by IMD: “Climate Change & Business Transformation,” pp. 53-64
Summary
CHAPTER 5 (IMD contribution) Climate change and Business Transformation: As we act to mitigate and adapt to climate change, we are undergoing the biggest business transformation the world has ever faced. To capture some of the opportunities presented by this transformation, companies should anchor a commitment to climate in their purpose and set…
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