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Supply chain career opportunities

By Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff

More and more companies have complex, global supply chains and are evolving their management structures to maintain service levels and control working capital. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP...

Finding purpose through social innovation

By Vanina Farber, Patrick Reichert

At a Discovery Event on finding purpose through social innovation, Professor Vanina Farber engaged participants to explore the challenges and opportunities that their organizations face as global...

IMD reaccredited by world’s largest business school association AACSB

AACSB review praises IMD as ‘best practice’ business school

Let’s go seize tomorrow’s opportunities!

Orchestrating Winning Performance Lausanne 2019 closes on a high note

How can your organization become more purpose-driven?

Understanding the power of purpose – can doing good generate good business?

Let’s take your brain to the spa

Executives recharge their batteries at IMD’s signature learning program

Bringing down the walls

A lesson in generations and prosperity

What makes a great leader in the digital age?

IMD Professor Jennifer Jordan reveals the top qualities of today’s managers at Orchestrating Winning Performance

When a country is a threat to your company

Professor Omar Toulan on the risks and opportunities of our volatile times

“Humans have given up consent and control for convenience”

Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISeKey, sounds the alarm on life on the web at Orchestrating Winning Performance

“Leaders need to have fun”

Peter Voser, ABB Chairman and CEO, on life and leading

What is a “Smart City”? IMD and SUTD’s Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities research reveals urban recipe for success

How do we create content and prosperous cities in the age of uncertainty? A new book and ground-breaking research index by researchers at IMD business school and the Singapore University of...

The sun shines bright on the class of Orchestrating Winning Performance

Highlights from OWP Lausanne 2019 day 3

Introverts or Extroverts – who makes a better colleague?

Karl Moore at Orchestrating Winning Performance

Artificial Intelligence: Boom or Doom?

Professor Amit Joshi looks at the hype and reality of AI at Orchestrating Winning Performance

Doing business in Africa: When uncertainty is the norm

Sibongile Manganyi-Rath, IMD EMBA, shares her business journey, her experiences and her story on doing business in Africa

Harnessing the power of transformation

Guillermo Diaz Jr Keynote Session at OWP

Finance and leadership: Stepping out of the comfort zone

Inspiring lessons from OWP 2019

The cutting edge of IMD learnings

Impressions of Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) 2019 Lausanne

Living a good life is an art

Rolf Dobelli gives the first keynote address of OWP Lausanne 2019

Three questions to help you take charge of your ascent to leadership

By Alyson Meister

Rather than being taken by surprise at how you might be judged as a woman leader, it’s important to pre-empt barriers and actively develop strategies to deal with them. Here are three questions...

Why quotas are not enough to improve boardroom diversity

By Bettina Büchel

Companies must consider more than just how to appoint more women onto their boards. The focus must shift to how to integrate them.

A program that champions women leaders and can lead to the next big idea

For Yumiko Toeda, International Women's Day on March 8 is a day to think about how to help bring about a more gender equal society. However, she admits that, before attending IMD's women-only...

How to thrive on the experiential luxury trend

By Stéphane J. G. Girod

IMD Prof Dr Girod offers a few steps to follow when thinking about what experiences your luxury brand can offer.

IMD MBA scholarship program: A commitment to diversity and impact

IMD has strengthened its commitment to a diverse group of leaders with its MBA scholarship program.

Gender diversity to strengthen balance in business

Suzanne Kroeks, an alumna from the Mobilizing People, discusses the impact of her experience at IMD, on the occasion of International Women's Day

Cracking the code of digital transformation – Professor Michael Wade releases new book

Professor Michael Wade releases new book titled Orchestrating Transformation

Business School Oscars: IMD study of Patagonia among winners in The Case Centre Competition 2019

The Case Centre has just announced the winners of its 2019 business case writing competition. This year, IMD Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Sustainability Francisco Szekely, and research...

It takes more than members to make a team

By William A. Fischer

Teams are essential engines of change that make them critically important organizational and societal assets. How well they function is a measure of how well we utilize our talent resources...

The value vampires are coming!

Interview of Professor Michael Wade in the Norwegian business magazine Kapital