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April 2021 In 1996, sustainability was not high on the world agenda. “Sustainability and other environmental fields were really fields of the future, not the present,” said Dall’Orso, remembering back to the...
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April 2021 As part of an investiga tion into what caused the Ever Given container ship to crash into the bank of the Suez Canal last month, blocking a crucial artery of...
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April 2021 Dr. Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg has joined IMD as Adjunct Professor of Leadership. A clinical psychologist specializing in organizational psychology, she brings more than two decades of professional...
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April 2021 With the joint publication of its Annual and Sustainability Reports, IMD offers an in-depth look into its activities throughout 2020 – a year heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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March 2021 As organizations move to more environmentally friendly products and processes, sustainability has changed from an afterthought to a key driver of innovation. Recognizing the importance of...
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March 2021 The psychological complex of imposter syndrome is domain-specific and is more a product of the environment, rather than the individual, said Jennifer Jordan, a social psychologist and IMD Professor...
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March 2021 By Heather Cairns-Lee, Tawfik Jelassi
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March 2021 IMD has been rated Silver for 2021 by EcoVadis . T he business school has demonstrated continuous improvement in implementing sustainability performance and capturing impact. EcoVadis...
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March 2021 By Peter Vogel
IMD has opened up nominations for the 2021 Global Family Business Award (GFBA) and invites you to nominate family businesses. Every year since 1996, a globally leading family business has been...
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March 2021 By Vanina Farber with Patrick Reichert.
Landmark financial sustainability regulation is finally here. Now what?
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March 2021 By Jennifer Jordan ; Sanne Feenstra, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen; Christopher T. Begeny, Psychology, University of Exeter; Michelle K. Ryan, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen and Psychology, University of Exeter; Floor A. Rink, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen; Janka I. Stoker, Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Groningen
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March 2021 It’s no secret that the tech sector has a difficult time attracting and retaining female employees. Women are missing at many levels of the industry – from technical specialists to C-suite executives...
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March 2021 As a woman in the male-dominated field of engineering, Harita Byluppala is all too aware of the importance role models play in shaping the ambitions of the young. Now that she has been awarded the...
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March 2021 By Jim Pulcrano and Matthieu Manzoni
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March 2021 By Stéphane J. G. Girod, Martin Králik
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February 2021 DBS was recognised by Harvard Business Review in 2019 as one of the Top 20 business transformations of the past decade. Tell us, what did you do differently from other traditional banks undergoing...
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February 2021 By John R. Weeks and Mahwesh Khan
Read more November 2020 How does Spitch serve clients with Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies? There are two ways Spitch serves its customers, which range from large banks with millions of customers to...
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November 2020 Making money and doing good are often portrayed as antitheses. But Mostafa Terrab , chairman and chief executive officer of Morocco’s OCP Group, says such apparent opposi tes can be...
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November 2020 Participants and IMD’s experts shared insights to enhance leadership skills and unlock the secrets of winning performance amid global uncertainty on the second day of OWP liVe. How...
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November 2020 The opening of the second OWP liVe virtual program revealed the tricks of effective negotiation techniques, how to debias your decision making with technology, and why sustainability and...
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November 2020 Posed in front of a giant picture of himself clutching a winning trophy, Peter Schmeichel could hardly have picked a better location to kick off IMD’s OWP liVe. The much-decorated former...
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November 2020 The Foundation and Supervisory Boards of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) have renewed the presidential mandate for Professor Jean-François Manzoni for a period of...
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November 2020 What has been the key enabler in driving OCP’s transformation, and why? Honest clarity. As we defined our vision to feed the planet to feed the world, we knew that this had to be sustainable...
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November 2020 By Paul Strebel
Redefine stakeholder capitalism for real impact with three guiding principles by Paul Strebel
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November 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has destroyed economic activity and shredded capital, but it also presents a rare opportunity to build our economies back up better, more resilient, inclusive and...
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November 2020 Brown-Forman, one of the largest American family-owned companies in the spirits and wine industry, has won the 2020 IMD Global Family Business Award, sponsored by Pictet. The winner was revealed...
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