IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD ANNUAL REPORT 2019

SPOTLIGHT: Enterprise for Society Center

E4S’s mission is to:

TRAIN the next generation of leaders by offering amaster’s degree in Sustainable Management and Technology with the first cohort starting in early 2021.

Inspiring tomorrow’s leaders through social impact

In 2019, in partnership with the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), IMD launched the Enterprise for Society Center. The Enterprise for Society Center (E4S) is an initiative that will train the next generation of leaders, inspire economic and social transformation and activate change by strengthening startups and boosting innovation. E4S is a competence hub which brings together three institutes of academic excellence that are internationally renowned in their own right. The Center will promote dialogue between researchers and practitioners working with technology and those focusing on socio-economic issues to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. E4S supports the alliance between management and technology and the need for innovation and adheres to the values of scientific excellence, ethical management and the social responsibility of companies. E4Swill be a crossroads where scientific and technological developments are confronted with societal changes and where strategies are elaborated to ensure that the former lead to real gains in social wellbeing.

INSPIRE socio-economic transformation by connecting more than 70 researchers at the three partnering institutions and beyond to produce knowledge and expertise with a direct impact on the global economy.

ACTIVATE change by strengthening the local startup and innovation ecosystem. The partner institutions will create a structure that will support startups and feed into the entrepreneurship and innovation tracks in new and existing teaching curricula.