IMD Annual Report 2021

Faculty and Research 38

Here are three examples of IMD faculty’s insightful FT50 articles.

Leading in hybrid times

Robert Hooijberg and Michael Watkins struck a chord with audiences all over the world with their FT50 article on the future of leadership in a hybrid world. “The Future of Team Leadership is Multi-modal” became the most read article on the MIT Sloan Management Review website in 2021.

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Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change Robert Hooijberg

Stop sabotaging innovation Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael Wade – the co-authors of ALIEN Thinking: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas – explored ways to conquer the psychological barriers to innovation in their Harvard Business Review article “Stop Sabotaging Your Ability to Innovate”.

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Professor of Innovation and Strategy Michael Wade

Go micro and modular In their MIT Sloan Management Review article “Why Companies Must Embrace Microservices and Modular Thinking”, Mark Greeven, Howard Yu and Jialu Shan explained how organizations can reduce complexity by embracing modular setups enabled by microservices.

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LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation Howard Yu