Thriving in the Future

Physician and Paralympian William Tan shares leadership lessons on resilience, adaptability, overcoming adversity, challenging assumptions and finding purpose

Learn how aikido leadership principles help you resolve workplace conflict, respond to resistance, and turn difficult conversations into collaboration.

Explore the Magnificent 7 of scaling: strategy, organization, and leadership practices that drive successful growth.

Protect thinking time to improve leadership under pressure. Learn how delegation, recovery, and clear boundaries support better decisions when it matters.

Is your calendar run by others or by you? Use this leadership diagnostic to reclaim time, sharpen priorities, and strengthen decision making.

Diagnose time poverty with a practical leadership checklist that helps you decide what not to do and refocus on what truly matters.

The business case for living longer explored by IMD: how longer lifespans reshape work, healthcare costs, and competitive advantage.

What does a zero target measure? In 2016, Barry Callebaut launched Forever Chocolate with a pledge to eradicate child labor from its supply chain by 2025. For its 2021-22 financial year, the company reported over 25,000 cases of child labor identified and 2,844 remediated. In May 2023, it changed the target: By 2025, human rights due diligence would cover its entire cocoa supply chain and every identified case would be remediated. A Bittersweet Paradox: From Zero Child Labor to Human Rights Due Diligence uses this decision to examine how zero KPIs and impact metrics behave in practice. A zero KPI states an absolute ethical demand in a single number. That simplicity mobilizes action. It can also conceal the conditions that determine whether change lasts: persistent poverty in farming communities, limited access to education, and constraints that no single company can resolve alone. But Zero KPIs also set a measurement trap. Stronger monitoring uncovers more cases so improved visibility looks like deteriorating performance. A report of zero cases can say more about what an organization fails to see than about the children it has protected. The replacement metrics raise their own questions. Is abandoning zero child labor a retreat or an evolution in the sustainability strategy compliant with the new regulatory environment? Students work with the company's reported figures through the eyes of a sustainability manager, an investor, a child rights organization and a farmer cooperative, each reading the same evidence differently. The questions apply more broadly: to net zero emissions, zero workplace harm and zero discrimination. What exactly does 'zero' cover? Do incentives reward discovering problems? Who verifies that remediation lasts? Do indicators reveal progress or reward an attractive appearance of success?

Could government borrowing, AI investment and falling corporate profits trigger a global financial crisis? Explore the pressures and risks for business.

Pirelli CFO Fabio Bocchio explains how disciplined capital allocation, sustainability investment, and balance-sheet strength build resilience.