International Institute for Management Development (IIMD) is a business school with campuses in Lausanne,Switzerland and Singapore. IIMD is well known for its MBA program,which is taught in English and consistently ranked among the best in the world.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a facilitation methodology developed at The Lego Group. Since 2010 it is available under an open source community-based model. Its goal is improving creative thinking and communication. People build with Lego bricks 3-dimensional models of their ideas and tell stories about their models. Hence the name "serious play".
Bernd Herbert Schmitt is a professor of international business in the marketing department at Columbia Business School,Columbia University in New York. He is known for his research and books,as well as speaking and consulting on customer experience,customer happiness,branding,innovation. He is noted for his work in Asia on Asian markets and consumers. He wrote several influential books in these areas like Experiential Marketing,Customer Experience Management,Big Think Strategy and Happy Customers Everywhere.
George S. Day is an educator and consultant in the field of marketing. He is an Emeritus professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He founded the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School,where he is presently Faculty Emeritus in Residence.
Richard A. D'Aveni is an American academic,thought leader,business consultant,bestselling author and the Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is best known for creating a new paradigm in business strategy and coining the term “hypercompetition”which led Fortune to liken him to a modern version of Sun Tzu.
Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. He has served on the Boards of ACC Limited,Ambuja Cements,Bata India,BP Ergo,Defaqto,Tata Capital,Tata Chemicals,Tata Industries,Tata Limited (UK),Tata Unistore,Ultratech,and Zensar Technologies. He received the 2021 Mahajan Award for Lifetime Contributions to Marketing Strategy by the Marketing Strategy SIG of the American Marketing Association (AMA).
The School of Business and Management is the business school of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),today considered one of the world's leading business schools in Asia.
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is a private,non-profit,independent educational institution and the only business school in China with faculty governance.
Paul J. H. Schoemaker is an academic,author,and an expert in the fields of strategic management and decision making.
Gerard "Gerry" George is currently Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Previously,he was Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann was a Swiss economist who was professor of international political economy at IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011,he was appointed senior fellow at the Fung Global Institute (FGI),a think-tank producing innovative thinking and research on global issues from Asian perspectives.
Howard Warren Buffett is an American philanthropist,political consultant,political scientist,and writer. A grandson of the American businessman and investor Warren Buffett,he is an adjunct professor in public policy and international affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and was previously the executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation,a private philanthropic foundation that funds initiatives aimed at improving the standard of living and quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations. He previously led agriculture-based economic stabilization and redevelopment programs in Iraq and Afghanistan while at the United States Department of Defense,and as a policy advisor in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under President Barack Obama.
Mikołaj Jan Piskorski who often goes by Misiek is Dean of IMD Asia and Oceania and a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD Business School. He is known for his research in the area of digital transformation,on-line social platforms and study of how companies leverage social platforms to improve their profitability.
Otto Lin was born Chui Chau Lin (林垂宙) in Shantou,Guangdong,China,in 1938. He came to Hong Kong as a refugee and went to Taiwan in 1953 where education at K-12 level was free. He attended National Taiwan University and received a BS in chemical engineering in 1960. After serving in ROTC,he was admitted to University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for post-graduate studies. Later he transferred to Columbia University in the City of New York,received the Ph.D. degree in 1967 in chemistry. His doctoral research was on the relationship of macromolecular conformation and hydrodynamic properties of DNA.
Alan Pilkington is a British engineer and researcher known for his work in technology management,operations management,Manufacturing strategy and enterprise engineering. He has been a professor at the Copenhagen Business School,Hult International Business School and S P Jain School of Global Management. He is currently Professor of Technology Management at Westminster Business School in London. He is past chair of the IEEE Technology Management Council for the UK and Republic of Ireland joint chapter on engineering management.
David C. Robertson is an American computer scientist,organizational theorist,and management consultant,known for his contributions in the fields of IT management and Enterprise architecture.
Derek F. Abell is the founding president and Professor Emeritus at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. In 2012,he also became the international dean at HSM Educação in Sao Paulo,Brazil. He is a published author of books and academic journal articles,mostly in the fields of strategic marketing,general management,leadership,and executive responsibilities. One of his most significant contributions has been the creation of the Three Dimensional Business Definition Model.
Quirky:The Remarkable Story of the Traits,Foibles,and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World is a 2018 book by Melissa Schilling,a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. The book was published by PublicAffairs,a division of Hachette Book Group.
Corey Phelps is an American business educator and author. He currently serves as the Dean of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma and a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship.
Future Readiness Indicator is an indicator developed by the IMD Center for Future Readiness. It evaluates a company's preparedness for long-term trends. A systematic methodology generates a composite score for each entity,allowing identification of industry leaders and an examination of their respective behaviors and attitudes. It is developed by Howard Yu.
