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    Meet your Program Directors

    Meet your Program Directors

    Program Directors

    Our Faculty members are recognized world authorities in their fields. Dividing their time between teaching, research and working with international companies, they remain on top of the latest management trends. You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials, and content in all IMD programs.

    Benoit Leleux

    Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD

    Dr Leleux is the Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD, where he serves as Program Director of Winning Sustainability Strategies and Foundations for Business Leadership. He was previously Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and Director of the 3i VentureLab and Associate Professor and Zubillaga Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Babson College (USA). Prior to his academic career, he was the head of corporate venturing for a leading agribusiness conglomerate in South East Asia.

    He is the author of a number of books, including “Winning Sustainability Strategies: finding purpose, driving innovation and executing change” (2019). His teaching cases have earned more than 20 European case writing awards and he has been ranked #19 in the Case Center’s top-40 best-selling case authors for 2018/19.

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    Jan van der Kaaij

    Co-founder of Finch & Beak

    Jan is Co-founder of Finch & Beak, a European consultancy specialized in accelerating sustainability. He teaches at IMD and Moscow School of Management, and is co-author of “Winning Sustainability Strategies: finding purpose, driving innovation and executing change” (2019).

    Jan is a creative sustainability expert in strategy development, DJSI and sustainable innovation, with a hands-on approach. He founded his sustainability advisory business in 1997, and over the past two decades he and his team have advised multinationals and family businesses such as McDonald’s, Telenet, DSM, Miguel Torres, Randstad, LANXESS and H.J. Heinz. Jan’s speciality is designing value generating sustainability strategies, and effectively implementing them into the core of the business.

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    Program Directors’ publications
    How an oil independent survived threat to its ethical values

    By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Loïc Godail

    Lundin Energy’s longstanding commitment to sustainability was challenged by an oil price war and the slump caused by the pandemic. Here’s how the company rose to the challenge.

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    How a chocolate company cleaned up its supply chain and started the transformation of an industry

    By Professor Benoit F. Leleux and Executive in Residence Jan Van der Kaaij

    What gives a brand the ability to stand head and shoulders above a saturated marketplace? What enables it to win loyalty and enthusiasm from its employees and its audience?

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    Sustainability and the art of doing less

    By Professor Benoit F. Leleux and Executive in Residence Jan Van der Kaaij

    Temperatures keep rising at an alarming pace. According to the UN weather agency, CO2 levels are at their highest in the last 650,000 years, and so are the average temperatures, with the world’s nine warmest years all having occurred since 2005.

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    De Agostini: Repurposing the business & the family

    By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Marta Widz and Guido Corbetta

    The Strategic Lab at De Agostini, part strategic think-tank and part assessment tool for the next-generation talent of the Drago-Boroli family, owners of De Agostini, was brainstorming the future direction of the diversified, family-owned group.

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