Sustainability Report 2021

31 IMD’s five core focus areas

IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award IMD announced in 2021 that J.M. Huber Corporation, one of the United States’ largest privately-held businesses, won the 2020 IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award for its holistic and long-termapproach to embedding sustainability across its operations. The award acknowledges andmotivates family-owned enterprises that strive to excel in corporate sustainability and impact. “As a family-owned business that thinks in terms of generations rather than years, sustainability is fundamental in supporting our long-term view,” saidMolly Heaney, a fifth generation Huber family member and director of the company. “While this recognition reminds us of what we have done well, it drives us to continue to do better, thinking always of future generations and the world that they will inherit.” Supporting Sustainable Startups Some of themost successful startups in Switzerland have worked directly with IMD alumni and were recognized by the Top 100 Startups of 2021. About 40 percent of these companies have collaborated withMBAs and EMBAs on a variety of projects that have a heavy focus on sustainability. Five of IMD’s alumni-led startups appeared on the top 25 list. IMD’s annual Startup Competition selects up to 38 Swiss- based startups to work with IMDMBA and EMBA participants on strategy and businessmodel design. In the 2021 competition, several winning startups such as Perovskia Solar, SmartHelio, and Enerdrape, focused on sustainability. Many also were led by women. “The winners were picked to provide the greatest possible learning experiences for our participants, to discover entrepreneurship from the inside,” said Professor Benoît Leleux. “Eight of the projects selected for 2022 were championed by women, and six of themhave female CEOs, a proportion rarely attained in the past.”

were published in FT50 academic journals (Journal of Management and Human Relations) and 28 were published on the school’s content platform I by IMD.

Human Relations August 2021

The stories that make us: Leaders’ origin stories and temporal identity work

WEI ZHENG ALYSON MEISTER BRIANNA CAZA

Journal of Management June 2021

Now you see me, now you don’t: A conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of leader impostorism

RONIT KARK ALYSON MEISTER KIM PETERS

Equity, Inclusion & Diversity

IMD influences the future of work with a targeted focus on equity, inclusion & diversity (EI&D) research, teaching, outreach, and client advisory. Research IMD is publishing a growing number of articles and research outputs addressing EI&D themes. Among the more than 40 outputs covering EI&D themes, in 2021, two

Professor Alyson Meister