IMD Annual Report 2019

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In 2019, IMD’s award-winning faculty and research centers continued to generate diverse and innovative thought leadership that delivered real impact around the world

Thought leadership and research play a crucial role in fulfilling IMD’s mission, both drawing on its unique proximity to business and informing its pedagogy, work and interactions with clients and participants. IMD’s close relationship and daily interventions with executives and organizations through its programs, events and partnerships offers rich insight into the “real world” challenges and diverse scenarios faced by the global business community every day. This provides fertile ground for exploration, which results in the creation of articles, case studies and books, as well as contributing to the design and delivery of IMD’s range of programs and the varied work of its research centers. Rigorous, Relevant, Insightful, Actionable Driven by world-renowned faculty at the forefront of academia and business, and in line with its mission, values and purpose, IMD supports its experts to produce research and thought leadership content that does not just meet the rigorous standards expected of top academics, but is also relevant, insightful and actionable for its target audiences.

Actionable

Insightful

Relevant

Rigorous

Findings or recommendations from the research can be put into action

Does not state the obvious, but leads to counter-intuitive or surprising revelations

Executives and organizations should or do care about the topic, now or in the near future

The methodological approaches taken are scientifically sound

business topics. Notable articles by IMD faculty covering areas such as team undiscussables, purpose and Chinese innovation featured in FT50 listed journals including the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Faculty also published critically- acclaimed books on subjects from leadership and strategic agility to sustainability and transformation.

By striving to meet these standards, IMD’s research output enriches the debate and finds resonance around the world with leaders, organizations as well as peers and students in executive education. Several articles published in 2019 struck a chord with readers globally and affirmed IMD’s leading role in dialogues on a wide range of