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Recent events, such as Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, the global pandemic, and domestic mass shootings have distracted many people. But the long term geopolitical reality has not changed. Nor has the dominant danger in it: The rise of China and the power of its...

Öykü Işik leads IMD’s Cybersecurity for Managers program, which helps businesses develop action plans to identify, prepare for, and respond to emerging and imminent cyber threats. Öykü is a Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity at IMD and an expert in...

Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School where she teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Tiona has specialized in how leaders conceptualize who they are and what they do, and how this identity and framing shapes...

Ori Brafman is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (2008), which argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional "spiders" with a rigid...

Modupe Akinola is a professor and researcher at Columbia Business School, and the director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership & Ethics. A former business consultant, Modupe is now an award-winning instructor in the MBA program at Columbia....

Melissa A. Schilling is an authority on innovation and strategy in high technology industries. She is the Herzog Professor of Management at the NYU Stern School of Business, where her research has investigated how tech firms win battles in platform ecosystems, and how...

Julia Binder is an expert in innovation and sustainability, and in the intersection where both can combine to transform our economic system. As a Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation at IMD, her research has focused on how to create and run...

Lorenzo Davids is a leader in social development who has worked to address poverty and improve lives in South Africa. He is the CEO of The Development Impact Fund, an organization that invests in projects and entrepreneurs with potential to transform themselves and...