It is my belief that many business innovations that will benefit society going forward will come from the Global South — especially from Latin America. We in the Global North can learn a lot from the region about building resilience amid uncertainty.
French entrepreneur and mountain guide Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy explains to Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation Julia Binder how she made a profitable business model – climbing Mount Everest – more sustainable by implementing a strategy to clean up the world’s tallest mountain.
Estamos finalmente a utilizar os jogos e a gamificação de forma eficaz na aprendizagem e desenvolvimento no local de trabalho, afirma Sarah Toms, do IMD.
Mate Rimac founded an electric supercar company in Croatia – a country with no automotive industry or start-up culture – when he was still a teenager, and against all odds, grew it into a $2bn brand with 2,500 employees.
A fragile foundational partnership and the misalignment of your workforce can be the Achilles’ heel of a start-up
To sell, merge, list or delist is a difficult decision that many business-owning families face at some point. Peter Vogel reflects on just such a turning point in the history of Firmenich, a 127-year-old Swiss family business which earlier this year announced its decision to merge with publicly listed ingredients and bioscience group DSM.
Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm’s dreams of glory were crushed in a David and Goliath battle with Mark Zuckerberg, but he firmly believes that failure can be a springboard to success if managed well
For the past 20 years, ‘growth at all costs’ has been the dominant Silicon Valley mantra, with companies foregoing profitability to scale fast and dominate the market. Yet, in a time of more turbulent markets, there’s something to be said for slow and steady growth – with or without large amounts of capital.
From a successful corporate career in the oil and gas industry to one as an entrepreneurial impact investor, alumni Chris Edwards, EMBA 2020, made a hard pivot mid-career and has not looked back.
One of the co-founders of sustainable energy startup IntellSol discusses the importance of viewing your original idea as a first draft that will evolve as you gain more knowledge of the market and customer needs.
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