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Ten Years After the Crisis – Are We Better Off?

By Arturo Bris

Professor Arturo Bris writes about what finance experts have learned since the 2008 financial crisis

IMD Business School program recognized for excellence in blended learning

IMD has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for excellence in the Best Use of Blended Learning category for the submission entry ‘Hilti & IMD: An Outperforming partnership to...

How a Swiss bank was toppled by a financial scandal in Malaysia – and what can be learned from it

By Salvatore Cantale with Ivy Buche.

The world’s biggest financial scandal, over missing billions from Malaysian state-run development fund 1MDB, has left the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, facing charges of corruption...

IMD’s MBAs dive deep in all new digital lab

IMD’s MBAs are undertaking a week-long digital lab to grasp technologies that are increasingly underpinning nearly all aspects of doing business

Entrepreneurship – Create something from nothing

IMD’s EMBAs once again head to Silicon Valley for a Discovery Expedition. Jim Pulcrano, expedition leader, describes the entrepreneurial learning journey This week IMD’s EMBAs will be in Silicon...

Coca-Cola’s swoop for Costa Coffee will cut its exposure to sugar and plastic bottles

By John W. Walsh

John Walsh analyzes Coca-Cola buying Costa

How listening to others helped piece together solutions to future challenges

More and more businesses are realizing that to stay ahead, they need to have a deep understanding of technology and what the future holds in terms of digital innovations. TransformTECH is a program...

IMD EMBA and Swiss Guard talks about his degree and how it shaped him

IMD recently met up with Gautier Porot to discuss his experience in the EMBA program, his key role in the Pope’s recent visit to Switzerland, and more.

The shifting position of leadership in a time of digital disruption

By Jennifer Jordan

In times of intense digital disruption, leaders need to position themselves in the group differently to how it was done in the pre-digital era. Why? If, like many of the executives I work with, you...

Why PepsiCo is splashing out US$3.2 billion on SodaStream

By Shlomo Ben-Hur

PepsiCo announced it would acquire SodaStream for US$3.2 billion, a 10% premium on SodaStream’s stock price and a 100% increase since the beginning of 2018.

Putting learning into practice with the IMD EMBA

Interview with Gaurav Kapoor, graduate of IMD’s Executive MBA program (EMBA) in 2018

Leading virtual teams

By Jennifer Jordan

One of the most common questions (and complaints I hear) from managers in the digital age is, “How do I work better with my virtual team?” This is a 5-million-franc answer, as the paucity of...

Happy 50th birthday Intel, you look a lot like the next Kodak

By Howard H. Yu

“I am easily a foot taller than Andy Grove. But whenever I was with him, I felt that he was the giant.” That’s what the bestselling Harvard business professor, Clayton Christensen, wrote about...

Cracking the millennial code

By Jennifer Jordan, Pascal Wicht

For the last five years, the influence of Millennials (people born approximately between 1980 and 2000) in the workplace has put pressure on many leaders and their organizations. But...

Nostalgia is not a good idea

By Stéphane J. G. Girod

Elon Musk took the business community by surprise when he said he had secured financing steps to take Tesla private. This morning, the Financial Times reveals that actually, the board has only...

The importance of the person effect on your leadership

By George Kohlrieser

Jackie has an important message to communicate. She needs to generate buy-in from the group. She delivers what she thinks is a compelling message. The response is rather tepid at best. Colleagues...

How global skin care company Beiersdorf onboards new managers

Beiersdorf AG is a German skin care company based in Hamburg, Germany. Its brands include Labello, La Prairie, Nivea and more. Founded in 1882, the company has over 18,000 employees and has a market...

The hidden cost of cost-to-serve

By Ralf W. Seifert with Richard Markoff.

Every supply chain executive has had the frustrating experience of witnessing inefficient practices in their fulfillment operations. One of ours was during a tour of a consumer product...

IMD MBA announces the winner of the “Create our Future” Challenge

In the search for India’s brightest and best, IMD organized the IMD MBA “Create Our Future” Challenge, a one-day intense think-in where participants engaged in groups to brainstorm how society...

IMD MBA selects MBA Class of 1976 Merit Scholarship holder

Every year at IMD, 90 promising young business leaders come together in the MBA class, are taken to their limits and come out ready to take on the world. The MBAs also make friends for life during...

How China is rebooting retail

By Michael R. Wade, Jialu Shan

The story of shops closing and the decline of retail has become a familiar one across the Western world. Giants such as Walmart and Macy’s in the US, and Marks and Spencer in the UK have been forced...

TransformTECH: demystifying emerging technologies for business

IMD recently ran its TransformTECH program for the first time. In the program, participants learn to harness new technologies to transform their business. IMD had the pleasure of welcoming Sylvie...

Millennials: reality vs. rumor

By Shlomo Ben-Hur with David Ringwood.

Millennials are the fastest growing population in the workplace, including the extent to which they influence leadership styles and different career expectations. But how much is really understood...

IMD EMBAs discover India on international immersion

IMD’s Executive MBA participants will visit vibrant India to learn more about how global corporations are changing — through lectures, case studies, company visits and a team assignment. The trip...

“IMD helped me become a confident leader in a VUCA world”

On the occasion of International Women’s Day IMD caught up with Anca Burca who graduated from IMD’s MBA class of 2015. Anca focuses on Digital & Business Strategy Transformation at Optimity...

The IMD Stewart Hamilton Scholarship to benefit outstanding women

On International Women’s Day, we are delighted announce that the IMD Stewart Hamilton Scholarship will in the future be awarded to an outstanding female candidate in the IMD MBA Program.

A deep dive into the ocean of possibilities

IMD is proud to honor Sonia Sachdeva, IMD MBA 2018 candidate, on International Woman’s Day. Sonia was chosen as the recipient of the Nestlé Scholarship for Women among many outstanding...

International Women’s Day – business must play a role to make society more inclusive

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, members of the IMD Community share their visions of the challenges society faces related to gender, technology and the future of work

Do business like a woman

By Vanina Farber, Natalia Olynec

A new breed of entrepreneurs are establishing businesses that also create cultural change benefitting women’s professional development. They recognize societal barriers to women’s career...

IMD MBA Class of ’76 giving back in the most impactful way

Every year at IMD, 90 promising young business leaders come together, are taken to their limits and come out ready to take on the world. The MBAs also make friends for life during their...