Education and Career

Sales is a magnificent profession. Yet how many parents dream of their child becoming a salesperson? What did your parents say when you chose this profession? Did you really choose it? Or did you rather adopt it by default? How do you feel doing it? Are you proud? If, like...

The workplace has evolved from traditional structures and hierarchies. Employee investment and engagement has enabled a dynamic culture, where innovation is celebrated. Employees today benefit from increased flexibilities in a globally connected world. With this development, individuals demand greater stimulation. This in turn propels a wealth of creativity, sharing and...

IMD Professor Reacts: Mike Wade on Activision’s purchase of Candy Crush for $5.9 billion. Candy Crush has been of one of the most successful games designed for Facebook and has provided a large chunk of the gaming revenue for the social media giant. Gaming accounts for a about 10% of...

The United States has overtaken Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and Singapore as an attractive haven for super-rich individuals and businesses looking to shelter assets behind a veil of secrecy, according to a 2015 index of the world’s offshore havens compiled by the Tax Justice Network. The Alpine nation, Switzerland, is...

A desire to protect the interests of future generations is seen as a critical or even overriding factor that motivates CEOs to drive business action on climate change, according to PwC’s CEO pulse on climate change survey. However, three out of five surveyed (63%) said they were personally motivated by...

In many businesses, leaders at higher levels feel pressured to collect data from every direction: sales numbers, customer support resources, client health scores — anything and everything that might tell them something about their company that isn’t apparent outside of the metrics. They measure and measure without understanding why or...

In a time of economic uncertainty, Singapore, as expected, kept its position as the most business-friendly place in the world, according to a World Bank's 2016 report. That’s consistency. New Zealand ranked second in the world for ease of doing business. Interestingly, amongst the emerging economies, India made the biggest...

Philosopher Ayn Rand once wrote that “morality is a code of black and white” and famously concluded that there could be no such thing as a moral “grey zone.” More than two months after the New York Times published a novella-length article depicting a “bruising” corporate and workplace culture at...

An improved website, a new app, a pivot in company strategy. These are all time-consuming tasks that need to be handled by an expert -- and in a timely fashion. But what if the expert you need isn’t on your payroll? That’s why companies are tapping into a new work...

Many businesses wrestle with the notion that they do not have the marketing and analytics power to execute real-time marketing campaigns. In large part, resistance to real-time initiatives stems from the common misconception that all real-time efforts are reactionary. There is a persistent fear among marketers that real-time operations are...