IMD Annual Report 2021

59 Faculty and Research

Highlights

The appointment of Cambridge Family Enterprise Group Senior Adviser and Partner Mario Marconi as Executive in Residence will further strengthen the center’s education and advisory activities. Research The center enjoyed one of its most productive years on record, publishing or contributing to more than 80 pieces of research content, including five FT50 articles. The team also welcomed Ivan Miroshnychenko as Research Fellow and Term Research Professor. In 2021, the center received the Family Firm Institute International Achievement Award for its contribution to understanding the international challenges faced by family businesses. The relevance and quality of the team’s output was recognized internationally, with Alfredo De Massis securing three awards from the IFERA and FERC for best research and best papers. Benoît Leleux, Marta Widz and Marc Chauvet won the IFERA’s best teaching case study award for their case about 2020 IMD-Global Family Business Award Winner Brown- Forman. Family Philanthropy Navigator by Peter Vogel, Etienne Eichenberger and Malgorzata Kurak won silver at the Axiom Business Book Awards. Outreach The center played a key role in the integration into IMD of the Lorange Network, founded by former IMD President Peter Lorange, with the aim of continuing the network’s success in providing real-world learning to members, including many family businesses and offices. Experts from the “Winning the FFI award is a great recognition of our efforts to be a leading global reference for family business education, research and outreach.” PETER VOGEL PROFESSOR OF FAMILY BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL FAMILY BUSINESS CENTER

80+

research publications

FT50 articles

5

academic articles

30

2

book chapters

1

case

conference papers

8

6

awards received

center delivered presentations and webinars for a wide range of events and partners, including the World Investment Forum, UBS, Barclays, the Family Business Network and the Global Family Office Summit. The MBA Family Business Club brought together MBA alumni from family firms for networking and learning, including a session on demystifying family enterprises, led by MBA family business leader Nicolas de Toledo. Danish sustainable water technology company Grundfos became the 26th winner of the IMD Global Family Business Award, sponsored by Pictet, while the J.M. Huber Corporation won the 2020 IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award.