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For too long, citizens of countries blessed with stable institutions have taken democracy and freedom for granted, the Head of the Center for Civil Liberties tells Professor Niccolò Pisani. -- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

Jay Mehta, owner of the Metha Group, sits down with Misiek Piskorski Dean of IMD Asia and Oceania. -- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

French entrepreneur and mountain guide Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy explains to Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation Julia Binder how she made a profitable business model – climbing Mount Everest – more sustainable. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

Olympian Rebecca Wardell tells Heather Cairns-Lee how a 20,000 km bike ride from Lausanne to New Zealand taught her the importance of managing her mindset, resilience, teamwork, and the kindness of strangers. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

Inspired by electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, Mate Rimac, CEO of the electric supercar company Rimac Automobili, is helping to drive a revolution in the automotive sector. He sits down for an interview with IMD's Didier Bonnet. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

IMD's Julia Binder how Judith Wiese, Chief People & Sustainability Officer at Siemens, effectively combines two roles at the German technology and industrial group. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here . Discover IMD's leadership programmes here .

Globally, firms are coming under increasing pressure to weigh profit-making against their social and environmental responsibilities. The trend, which breaks with a long tradition of shareholder primacy, requires business leaders to understand the needs, interests, and expectations of a diverse array of stakeholders. At Rio Tinto, no one has a greater awareness of this than Isabelle Deschamps.   As...

90% of startups fail. For all sorts of different reasons. And few people want to talk about it. But WiReD Magazine co-Founder and IMD Executive in Residence Ian Charles Stewart and Aike Festini, Founder and CEO of logistics startup Luckabox AG, are more than happy to. In our latest IMD ACE Founders Series podcast interview Stewart and Festini discuss what happens when things go wrong, how to spot...

As the FinTech arena moves beyond smoothing back-office processes and facilitating relationships between existing players we are seeing a new generation of B2C players rise to take on the incumbent institutions.   With the rise of challenger banks, we also see hybrid organizations seeking to use new technologies and the resulting processes and public awareness thereof to slice up markets a little...

Raffaello D’Andrea co-founded warehouse automation company Kiva Systems, which was sold to Amazon in 2012 for $775m and rebranded as Amazon Robotics, and then Verity, the autonomous indoor drone company now growing quickly in Zürich.  He is also a Professor of Dynamic Systems & Control at Switzerland’s leading technology university ETH, in Zürich and was formerly an Associate Professor of Mech...

Oyster began with a question: How can we make global employment easier for companies and talented workers?  Building an all-star team shouldn’t be limited by borders. Now, the company is on a mission to make it easier than ever for growing companies to hire, pay, and take care of brilliant employees - wherever they are in the world.  Tony Jamous, the founder of Oyster, is a tech entrepreneur and a...

In this episode of IMD's "The Interview" podcast, Sarena Lin, Chief Transformation & Talent Officer at Bayer, speaks with IMD's Professor Misiek Piskorski about digital transformation and leadership. Bayer is a global enterprise specializing in a range of life sciences fields including pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and crop management. Sarena Lin has been a member of its Board since 2021 a...

"Influence doesn’t work the way you think, because you don’t think the way you think." So says Zoe Chance in her latest book, Influence Is Your Superpower. As a Professor at the Yale School of Management, Chance is an expert in behavioral economics, and her framework for behavior change is the foundation for Google’s global food policy. In conversation with IMD Professor of Strategy and Political...

*** This podcast interview was recorded in 2021*** As competition in the retail banking space increases and consumers demand more services, new players are entering the market and disrupting our relationships with our wealth.    One of these companies is German challenger bank Nuri. Led by CEO Kristina Walcker-Mayer, Nuri offers an on-ramp to crypto investment and wealth management tools directly...

Once named amongst Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, Nicholas Christakis is now the director of Yale’s Human Nature Lab; a position that puts his diverse range of skills to good use. With expertise in several fields including sociology, ecology, medicine, and evolutionary biology, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science has a track record of groundbreaking research. In this...

When Peter Bakker joined World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) a decade ago, the conversation on climate change was very different. Back in 2012, he says, companies were still grappling with the 'why' of environmental issues, rather than the 'how'. Fast-forward 10 years and the business landscape has been transformed, the WBCSD President & CEO said. Today more than ever, s...

In the finale of Should I Fly, Professors Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller layout their conclusions on the big question; and find that things aren't so straightforward. Who should take responsibility for the aviation industry's emissions? How much is flying truly impacting the environment? When is enough travel enough? In this 7th episode,  they cover the tough choices that will need to be mad...

Over the past two years, global lockdowns meant many didn't have to answer the “Should I fly?” question. But as the world re-opens, travel looks set to make a comeback in 2022. Should we return to our pre-covid habits? Has the pandemic changed our attitude to flying? And how do we make the decision to travel? Throughout Should I Fly, Professors Jim Pulcrano and Patrick Reinmoeller have talked to p...

Quick and easy international travel is a normal part of modern life, but almost 20 years ago getting from A to B was an even faster process.  In the early 2000s, Concorde allowed passengers to get from London to New York in less than four hours; but high costs and environmental complaints brought an end to the supersonic travel era. Now, a new generation of pioneering companies is aiming to make a...

This weeks' host is Edwin Keh, Chief Executive of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel. His guest is Janice Wang, The CEO of Alvanon, a global fashion innovations and product development company. The 3D models created by Alvanon help clothing brands like Adidas, Arcteryx, and under Armour, develop new products digitally, cutting out the waste associated with traditional samplin...

To hear your views aired on Should I Fly, please fill out our short survey: https://imd.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZ3MoMg51bvCLWK   From passengers to investors, there's not much love lost for Airlines. But why? Airlines provide us with the opportunity to easily, and cheaply see the world. They give us the ability to broaden our minds, reunite us with distant family members and facilitate the m...

Airports are portals to other worlds.  You walk into a building, enter a metal tube, and sometime later you arrive in another city, country, or even continent.  It all seems seamless, but most don't notice the thousands of moving parts that get them from point A to point B. In episode 3 of Should I Fly, Jim and Patrick look into Airports. How they operate, and what the future holds for these magic...

2020 was the year that travel companies crumbled. But while transport executives winced, others saw a silver lining.  COVID gave the world a much-needed break from CO2 and sparked a deeper conversation about our reliance on flying. In episode 2 of Should I Fly, Jim and Patrick speak to environmentalists and executives alike about the need to reset the aviation industry. Highlights include an insig...

Flying used to be about glitz, glamour and, of course, getting places. But in a post-pandemic world of global warming and zoom calls, those days may be firmly behind us.  The international travel shutdown left many unanswered questions: Has video technology made conferences redundant? How far should governments go to save airlines? Is a foreign stag-do worth all that CO2? The aviation industry is...

As an explorer, Bertrand Piccard has always had a strong sense of purpose. But now he finds he has a gift for helping other people to find theirs.  In this conversation with Alyson Meister, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD, Piccard speaks openly about his life and achievements - including his search for meaning, the ways in which he overcomes fear of failure, and the thre...