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    Arnaud Chevallier

    Program Director

    Arnaud Chevallier is a Professor of Strategy, specializing in complex problems and decision making under uncertainty.

    Arnaud Chevallier

    Program Director

    Arnaud Chevallier is a Professor of Strategy, specializing in complex problems and decision making under uncertainty.

    Meet your Program Director

    Arnaud Chevallier helps executives solve complex problems and make better decisions under uncertainty. His research, teaching, and consulting draw on empirical findings from diverse disciplines to provide concrete tools that prepare executives to manage the strategic challenges they face in today’s dynamic global marketplace.

    His initial 2016 book Strategic Thinking in Complex Problem Solving, published by Oxford University Press, is now followed by his latest title, Solvable: A Simple Solution to Complex Problems, co-authored with Albrecht Enders. This book synthesizes the strategic thinking needed for complex problem solving into a simple three-step process: frame, explore, decide. It also shows practitioners how to follow these steps using highly applicable, concrete tools.

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    Contributing Faculty

    Meet the experts who will guide you to success. IMD’s Global Management Foundations program is delivered to you by a world-class faculty of professors to bring you the richest of real-world applications and the latest thought leadership.

    Salvatore Cantale

    Professor of Finance

    Salvatore Cantale is Professor of Finance. His academic and consulting work is divided into two different but complementary streams. First, he works at the intersection between strategy, business models, and financial results. He also sheds light on the relationship between ESG and finance, with the aim of increasing the understanding of how ESG po…

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    Goutam Challagalla

    Professor of Strategy and Marketing and dentsu Group Chair in Sustainable Strategy and Marketing

    Goutam Challagalla is Professor of Strategy and Marketing and dentsu Group Chair in Sustainable Strategy and Marketing. He focuses on how digital advances and sustainability concerns are impacting companies’ business strategies and approaches to marketing. Having helped companies to rethink their business models and build new capabilities in the …

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    Carlos Cordon
    Carlos Cordon

    Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management

    Carlos Cordon is Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management. His areas of expertise are supply chain management, digital, value chains, digital lean, and process management, all of which are particularly relevant topics in the context of the supply chain challenges that businesses face today. His research and teaching are currently focused o…

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    Jennifer Jordan

    Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior

    Jennifer Jordan is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Her teaching, research, and consulting focus on influence, power, family business, women’s leadership, and leadership transitions. In 2019, she was named by Poets&Quants as one of the world’s leading business school professors under 40. Leaders in today’s society need …

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    Benoit Leleux

    Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance

    Benoit Leleux is Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. He is recognized as a leading specialist in entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity, and corporate venturing, particularly in emerging markets, and is the winner of numerous case writing awards in categories relating to these topics. His recent research and…

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    Ina Toegel

    Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change

    Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical backgr…

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    Michael Wade

    TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital and Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation

    Michael Wade is Professor of Strategy and Digital. An expert on digital transformation, he holds the TONOMUS Professorship in Digital Business Transformation and is Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. An expert in digital transformation, he has published 10 books and more than 100 case studies as well as article…

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    Howard Yu

    LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation

    Howard Yu, hailing from Hong Kong, is LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD. He leads the Center for Future Readiness, founded in 2020 with support from the LEGO Brand Group, to guide companies through strategic transformation. Recognized globally for his expertise, in 2023 he was honored with the Thinkers50 Strategy Award, recogn…

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    Albrecht Enders

    Professor of Strategy and Innovation

    Albrecht Enders is Professor of Strategy and Innovation. His work focuses on strategic decision making. Through his teaching, consulting, and writing, he helps companies make important strategic choices, and provides guidance on how to ensure that decision making is effective, and pitfalls are avoided. He says leaders often fall into the trap of…

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