Executive MBA Curriculum

Sophie Bacq is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development and serves as IMD’s Co-Managing Director of the Enterprise for Society Center (E4S) since February 2026. As a globally recognized thought leader on social entrepreneurship and change, she investigates and theorizes about entrepreneurial a…

Julia Binder is Professor of Business Transformation at IMD. She works with organizations worldwide to lead transformation and build future-ready businesses. A recognized thought leader, she helps senior executives translate signals of change into strategy, innovation, and leadership action. Her teaching and research focus on how leaders can nav…

Goutam Challagalla is the dentsu Group Professor of Strategy and Marketing at IMD. His expertise lies at the intersection of strategy design, strategy execution, and commercial strategy, with a dedicated focus over the last decade on how AI, sustainability, and digital transformation shape competitive advantage. Challagalla is the Director of IMD�…

Arnaud Chevallier is Professor of Strategy. He helps executives solve complex problems and make better decisions under uncertainty. His research, teaching and consulting draw on empirical findings from diverse disciplines to provide concrete tools that prepare executives to manage the strategic challenges they face in today’s dynamic global marke…

Frédéric Dalsace is Professor of Marketing and Strategy. He focuses on two distinct areas: B2B issues such as customer centricity, buyer-seller relationships, and value management, as well as sustainability strategies, including inclusive business models. He believes that companies need to rethink their approach to customer centricity. He says…

Marleen Dieleman holds the Peter Lorange Chair in Family Business. She is an expert on the challenges faced by emerging market enterprises in their strategic trajectories. Her research focuses on the governance, strategy, internationalization, innovation, and transformation of business families in emerging markets, and also on emerging market state…

Vanina Farber is elea Professor of Social Innovation. Farber is an award-winning economist and political scientist who specializes in social innovation and the mobilization of private capital for impact investing. Her research focuses on innovative, practical, sustainable, and inclusive market-oriented approaches that have the potential to change t…

Mark Greeven is Professor of Management Innovation. He draws on two decades of experience in research, teaching, and consulting in China to explore how to organize innovation in a turbulent world. He was included in the Thinkers50 Ranking (2025, 2023) and named on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 Next Generation Business Thinkers in 2017. Greeven h…

Knut Haanaes is Professor of Strategy. His research and teaching focus on strategy, sustainability, strategic renewal, and business models. He says these different pillars enable him to help companies think about their path for the future and take account of new trends, including the demand for greater sustainability. Sustainability now plays an…

Amit Joshi is Professor of AI and Strategy. He specializes in helping organizations use artificial intelligence and develop their big data, analytics, and AI capabilities. An award-winning professor and researcher, he has extensive experience of AI and analytics-driven transformations in industries such as banking, fintech, retail, automotive, tele…

Benoit Leleux is Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. He is recognized as a leading specialist in entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity, and corporate venturing, particularly in emerging markets, and is the winner of numerous case writing awards in categories relating to these topics. His recent research and…

Alyson Meister is Dean of Degree Programs and Hilti Professor of Leadership at IMD. At IMD she has also directed flagship programs such as Future Leaders, Change Management, and Resilient Leadership, designing and facilitating development journeys for leaders navigating transformation, uncertainty, and growth. Alyson works closely with senior execu…

Anand Narasimhan is the Shell Professor of Leadership and Governance. His work explores how top team and board dynamics influence organizational transformation. He collaborates with directors and senior leaders to strengthen their leadership presence and support them in creating a positive impact on their stakeholders. Anand’s teaching, consul…

José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy at IMD, where he teaches, researches, and advises executives on how organizations can use artificial intelligence to solve real problems and unlock lasting growth.  His academic foundations lie in data science, algorithms, and analytics, yet his research increasingly centers on what he consid…

Niccolò Pisani is Professor of Strategy and International Business. His areas of expertise include strategy design and execution as well as international business. His teaching helps leaders to identify the strategic choices with the greatest impact and to develop the capabilities needed to excel in their execution. Leveraging his research on g…

Jim Pulcrano is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management. He has extensive expertise in entrepreneurship, particularly startup culture, strategy, customer centricity, marketing, and disruption. A former Executive Director at IMD, Pulcrano runs the annual IMD Startup Competition and teaches entrepreneurship courses for Innosuisse, th…

Karl Schmedders is Professor of Finance. His research and teaching focuses on sustainability and the economics of climate change. He is therefore able to provide key insights on the transition risk arising from the shift to a greener economy and help companies face up to the challenges of potential asset degradation and increasing carbon prices. …

Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. His work lies at the heart of one of the most important topics currently facing organizations, as supply chains come under strain due to multiple global changes. He has also wo…

Leif Sjöblom is Professor of Financial Management. His areas of special interest include the restructuring of the telecommunications industry, performance measurement and shareholder value creation, and micro-entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining IMD, Sjöblom worked in marketing, production, and the telecommunications indust…

Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical backgr…