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Cutting-edge education

IMD will build on the extensive investments made in digital technology to engage a broader and geographically diverse range of program participants when face-to-face learning is not possible. This includes state-of-the-art synchronous interactive highly personalized learning with virtual study rooms, live polls, interactive whiteboards, and video streaming.

The institution will develop interactive tools to teach sustainable business transformation concepts and leverage digital technology to ensure hands-on technology-mediated learning opportunities.

Access to executive education

Through technology-mediated education, fundraising for scholarships, and targeted marketing, IMD will proactively increase gender, geographical and other forms of diversity in its programs. For example, diversity & inclusion as well as women’s leadership will be a key feature in a new annual

giving program for scholarships. IMD also plans to offer a new Accelerating Talent program with senior executives from eight companies in Africa. The institute also aims to move its degree program composition towards gender parity over the next few years, while maintaining its geographic and cultural diversity.

Workforce diversity and inclusion

Through targeted marketing and recruitment practices, IMD will seek to attract and develop a diverse workforce which reflects its range of clients, partners, and stakeholders, and fosters an inclusive environment where everyone can reach their potential. The institution also will ensure that increased diversity in its faculty brings value-add to the teaching environment and its award-winning academic research.

An example of these efforts is a salary benchmarking project underway to analyze compensation by function relative to the market. The benchmarking will lay the groundwork for an application for equal pay certification from a third-party organization. IMD also plans to include an inclusion index in its employee engagement surveys.

Mobility and emissions

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way IMD delivers its programs, shifting its delivery increasingly towards personalized technology- mediated interactions and reducing IMD’s impact on the environment related to faculty and participant travel.

delivery, reducing the need for a return to travel at previous levels. Moving forward, the institution will put in place emissions targets through a detailed measurement of its baseline, identifying hotspots, putting in place new policies and more sustainable travel and campus operations practices.

As the world gradually opens up, IMD expects to continue to incorporate technology in its program