IMD Annual Report 2019

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• IMD welcomes new faculty Katharina Lange and Louise Muhdi • IMD awarded the silver sustainability medal from EcoVadis • MBA ranked as best international one-year business program for 2nd straight year by Forbes • The United States retains top spot in the third IMD World Digital Competitiveness ranking • 350 alumni reunite in Lausanne for Annual Alumni Event, focus on the future of the planet SEPTEMBER • New Digital Transformation for Boards, Team Dynamics for Boards and Finance for Boards programs • Dachser wins the 2019 IMD Global Family Business Award • Five IMD faculty among the Case Centre’s Top 40 best-selling case study authors • First IMD Smart City Index ranking • Digital Competitiveness Summit, organised in partnership with digitalswitzerland and EPFL • IMD World Competitiveness Center 30th anniversary conference OCTOBER

• First Dubai edition of Orchestrating Winning Performance program • IMD World Talent Ranking 2019 released • First EMBA Discovery Expedition to Peru NOVEMBER celebrates 20th anniversary • MBA graduation ceremony • 42 Startup Competition winners selected for 2020 • IMD receives EFMD BSIS impact label (for its impact in the regional ecosystem) • First IMD Alumni Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) event in China • MBA ranked #1 in Europe by Bloomberg Businessweek • Firmenich wins first IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award • IMD partners with EPFL and UNIL to launch the Enterprise for Society Center (E4S) • EMBA graduation ceremony (November cohort), program DECEMBER