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Looking ahead

Executive learning

• Sustainability Accelerators, a suite of executive programs designed to expand capabilities in sustainable transformation, will be launched in 2024.
• The Executive Certificate in Sustainable Business will be offered. Graduates will earn a Swiss government-accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies.
• Our sustainability offering will be extended through the IMD Executive Master’s in Sustainable Business program.

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• We will offer a new Women on Boards program.
• IMD and the Lundin Foundation will partner with MIM Business School in Kyiv to offer an executive learning journey in Ukraine for female leaders from business, government, and civil society, comprising short, focused IMD programs on leadership, strategy, and business challenges.

Research

• A new book, The Circular Business Revolution, is set to be published in 2024 (Julia Binder & Manuel Braun, Pearson).
• As part of E4S, IMD will commence a new research project with UNIL in 2024, “Towards a nature-positive, actionable, and measurable framework for voluntary biodiversity credits.”
• We are developing pedagogical games related to business impact on the planetary boundaries.

Outreach and partnerships

• The Business Schools for Climate Leadership, of which IMD is a partner, will host a practitioners’ conference with alumni of all eight business schools. We will continue to be involved in the “Organizing the Climate Transition” PhD course, focusing on climate change challenges with innovative research.
• IMD’s new Women on Boards program, led by Jennifer Jordan, will take place in May and September 2024.

Jennifer Jordan will lead IMD’s new Women on Boards program