ACI Recommended-Institute Profile: IMD

IMD (International Institute for Management Development) is a top-ranked business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1990, IMD was ranked first in the world in open programs by the Financial Times in 2012 and 2013. Additionally, IMD has been No. 1 in the Financial Times ranking of executive education outside the United States for six years (2008 – 2013) and IMD’s MBA program has been ranked first internationally by Forbes.

Open enrollment programs at IMD particularly emphasize leadership, with programs in Global Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Execution Leadership, Personal Leadership, and Stakeholder Leadership. The IMD Web site provides an interactive program finder that suggests programs based on participants’ characteristics such as experience, functional responsibility, and business responsibility.

In addition to IMD’s 26 open enrollment programs, MBA, and executive MBA programs, IMD also offers three global center programs and two coaching services program, the board-readiness coaching service and personalized executive coaching service, both new additions to IMD’s plentiful offerings.

Faculty at IMD consists of a diverse mix of approximately 300 individuals from all over the world. Notable faculty include Adrian Ryans, Professor of Marketing and Strategy, who teaches in the Orchestrating Winning Performance program; Cyril Bouquet, Professor of Strategy, Program Director for The Strategy Challenge, and Co-Program Director for the Program for Executive Development; and Paul Strebel, two-time winner of the Association of Executive Search Consultants’ Award for Research on Leadership.

In addition to distinguished academic faculty, IMD is also home to multiple executives in residence, senior level practitioners who research and teach at IMD. Executives in residence include Thierry Maupilé, Chief of Strategy and Service Provider Segment of Cisco, and Flávio Rímoli, former Executive Vice President and Secretary of Embraer’s Board.

ACI highly recommends IMD. We feature many of their impressive courses on our Web site, and you can visit them directly at http://www.imd.org/executive-education/program-finder/#

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