IMD Annual Report 2021

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IMD Annual International Alumni Event 2021

Para-artist and exoskeleton test pilot Silke Pan at a Lausanne alumni club event.

Alumni club highlights Through its 50 alumni clubs worldwide, IMD and its former program participants maintain deep ties and relationships with a range of activities such as speaker events, industry visits and social gatherings. In 2021, the UK club organized an event on COP26 to explore how business could be a force for good on climate change. The panel outlined several steps to take, including simplified ESG reporting, setting broader emissions targets, addressing transition risk and incorporating ESG into products and services. The Lausanne club hosted an inspiring event entitled “Lower limb exoskeletons, beyond the handicap”, featuring para-artist, exoskeleton test pilot and former acrobat Silke Pan and EPFL rehabilitation and assistive robotics expert Mohamed Bouri.

A new chair with Rio Tinto In 2021, IMD and leading global mining group Rio Tinto agreed to establish the Rio Tinto Chair in Stakeholder Engagement. The purpose of the chair will be to develop and diffuse knowledge about how leading multinationals can build robust stakeholder engagement capabilities that allow them to operate in otherwise politically challenging environments. Rio Tinto has pledged three million Swiss francs for the chair, which will be established in perpetuity by IMD. The agreement with Rio Tinto will be in force for an initial duration of 10 years. In 2021, IMD hosted its Annual International Alumni Event in an innovative hybrid format, which enabled more than 200 alumni to connect on campus in Lausanne and many more from around the world to take part virtually. The event, “A Path to Resilience: Advancing Executive and Organizational Mental Health andWellbeing”, focused on topics including addressing stress, mindfulness in the workplace, and strategizing in your sleep. IMD HIVE In close collaboration with MBA Class Representatives, IMD launched a new, collaborative online platform for its alumni community in May. HIVE offers IMD’s vibrant, diverse and global alumni the opportunity to stay in touch with classmates and the wider community, join individual groups based on cohorts, programs and locations, and enables degree program alumni to tap into career resources and employment opportunities. Alumni engagement International Alumni Event

One Mind Executive Vice President Daryl Tol at the IMD Annual International Alumni Event.