CEOs get paid more than anyone else in the corporate world, and are seen as having a similarly outsized influence on their companies’ fortunes. But has the importance of the chief executive been wildly overestimated? We unpack the...

Over the past twenty years, a five word phrase has become one of the most popular mantras in business.But is “culture eats strategy for breakfast” a useful philosophy - or a gross oversimplification?---------------Links:Read our new magazine, I by IMD,...

In the past, when machines replaced human workers we created new jobs elsewhere and avoided mass unemployment. We might not be so lucky this time. In the second part of our special on AI and employment, we take a look at the sectors that are at the...

From the Terminator movies to the musings of Elon Musk, the world is full of worrying predictions about what will happen to us when machines become super-intelligent.  But the reality of what’s coming down the pipeline may be at once less scary - and...

We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture emerges.--------------Links:Read our new magazine, I by...

For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us to what’s actually going on within the world’s second largest...

Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments. His achievement is often held up as a gold standard of leadership. But was he able to lead because of...

Everyone knows that successful entrepreneurs like to take risks.  But what if the data tells us otherwise?  In this new series, Professor Michael Wade takes a closer look at six of the most widely-accepted ideas in business -- revealing some surprising...