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International Institute For Management Development
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is an independent academic institute with campuses in Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore. IMD is known for its executive education and its proximity to business. In 2024, it named David Bach as its new president. History and mission IMD was formed in January 1990 through the merger of independent management education centers International Management Institute (Geneva) (IMI), established in 1946 by Alcan, and Institut pour l'Etude des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise (IMEDE) Lausanne established in 1957 by Nestlé. The new organization, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), settled in Lausanne. The history of IMEDE and its merger with IMI is documented in Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Hein Schreuder (2015, chapters 2 and 4). Its industrial heritage is unusual for business schools, which are usually university-affiliated. IMD business school solely provides executive education; it is a Swiss univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne
Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located (as the crow flies) northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland convenes in Lausanne, although it is not the ''de jure'' capital of the nation. The municipality of Lausanne has a population of about 140,000, making it the List of cities in Switzerland, fourth largest city in Switzerland after Basel, Geneva, and Zurich, with the entire agglomeration area having about 420,000 inhabitants (as of January 2019). The metropolitan area of Lausanne-Geneva (including Vevey-Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains, Valais and foreign parts), commonly designated as ''Lake Geneva region, Arc lémanique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarang Jain
Tarang Jain (born 1962/1963) is an Indian billionaire businessman, the CEO and 86% owner of Varroc, an Indian two- and four-wheeler parts manufacturer. As of October 9, 2024, Anurang Jain and his family were ranked 88th on ''Forbes list of India's 100 richest individuals, with a net worth of US$3.65 billion. Early life and education His mother Suman is the sister of Rahul Bajaj. His father is Naresh Chandra Jain, who founded Varroc, and he has an identical twin brother Anurang Jain, who runs another car components company, Endurance Technologies. Jain earned a bachelor's degree from University of Mumbai, and an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Career Jain founded Varroc in 1990. In 2012, he bought Visteon's global lighting interests, the world’s sixth-largest lighting business, for $90.5 million. Personal life Jain is married, with two children, and lives in Aurangabad Aurangabad (), officially renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in 2023, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Its majority shareholder and namesake is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile is the second largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 131 million subscribers as of March 31, 2025. The company was founded in 1994 by John W. Stanton of the Western Wireless Corporation as VoiceStream Wireless. Deutsche Telekom then gained plurality ownership in 2001 and renamed it after its global T-Mobile brand. , the German company holds a 51.4% stake in the company. T-Mobile US operates two main brands: T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile (acquired in a 2013 reverse takeover of MetroPCS that also led to T-Mobile's listing on the NASDAQ). In 2020, T-Mobile expanded through the acquisition of Sprint, which also made T-Mobile the operator of Assurance Wireless, a service subsidized by the federal Lifeline program. The company's growth continued in 2024 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Humm
Philipp Rudolf Humm is an artist, film director and a former European business executive. Early life Humm was born in 1959 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He is German and British; his mother is Belgian. Humm did his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Franco Allemand in Saarbrücken. After studying philosophy and business administration at the Saarland University, University of Saarland, Germany and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, Humm received an MBA with distinction in 1985 from the International Institute for Management Development, IMD Business School in Switzerland. Career Art Humm has been an artist and film director since 2015. Philipp Humm's transition from CEO to artist and ‘ironic-narrator’ of modern life has been less than orthodox. Humm's work has attracted considerable media attention with his first show making the front page of The Wall Street Journal. His art traverses societal norms and directly questions human nature and what lies ahead as we blindly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Cars
Volvo Car AB, trading as Volvo Cars (, styled VOLVO in the company's logo) is a Sweden, Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles. Volvo is headquartered in Torslanda, Gothenburg. The company manufactures SUVs, station wagons, and sedans. The company's main marketing revolves around automotive safety, safety and its Swedish heritage and design. Volvo Cars has been separate from its former parent conglomerate and producer of heavy trucks, buses, and construction equipment (among others) AB Volvo since 1999 when AB Volvo sold its automobile division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for billion. On 28 March 2010, Ford sold Volvo Cars at a loss to Geely, Geely Holding for $1.8 billion; the deal closed in August 2010. Volvo Cars was publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2021, though Geely Holding still retains majority ownership. Volvo Cars and AB Volvo share the Volvo logo, and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum. In March 2021, Volvo Cars announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Grübel
Oswald Jürgen Grübel (born November 23, 1943) is a German banker who was the group chief executive officer of Swiss bank UBS AG from 26 February 2009 until his sudden resignation on the 24 September 2011 in the wake of the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. Previously, he has been head of Credit Suisse between 2003 and 2007. 'WSJ''. Accessed 15 March 2016.] Education Grübel did not attend university, but took an in banking and securities trading at in Mannheim and Frankfurt.Career Grübel began his career at ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPG Enterprises
The Rama Prasad Goenka Group, commonly known as RPG Group, is an Indian industrial and services conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. The roots of the RPG Group can be traced back to the enterprise of Ramdutt Goenka in 1820. RPG Enterprises was established in 1979 by Rama Prasad Goenka and initially comprised the Phillips Carbon Black, Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute, and Murphy India companies. R. P. Goenka held the title of Chairman Emeritus until his death in 2013. The present chairman is Harsh Goenka, R. P. Goenka's eldest son. The RPG Group currently consists of more than fifteen companies, mainly infrastructure, tires, and life sciences. Some of the companies it holds are CEAT Tyres, information technology firm Zensar Technologies, infrastructure company KEC International, pharmaceutical company RPG Life Sciences, a 50/50 joint-venture with TE Connectivity for Raychem RPG, plantation company Harrisons Malayalam, and e-commerce company Seniority. Group companies The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsh Goenka
Harsh Vardhan Goenka (born 10 December 1957) is the current chairman of Mumbai-headquartered RPG Enterprises (popularly known as RPG Group), which consists of over fifteen companies across core sectors of the economy, accrediting a turnover of over US$4.7 billion. Companies in the group include KEC International, CEAT, Zensar Technologies, RPG Lifesciences, Harrisons Malayalam, Raychem RPG and Spencer International Hotels Ltd. One of India’s most diversified conglomerates, the RPG name is synonymous with stability, sustained growth, and high standards of corporate governance with a focused culture of respect for people and the environment. The group has a global footprint with over 42% of revenues coming from global business. Goenka is the eldest son of R. P. Goenka and has been the chairman of RPG Group since 1988. He stands at number 1045 in the Forbes list of world billionaires. He has a younger brother Sanjiv Goenka, with whom he amicably divided the business asset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bulcke
Paul Bulcke (born 8 September 1954) is a Belgian businessman. He was CEO of Nestlé from 2008 to 2016. He has been chairman of Nestlé since 2017. Early life He graduated as a commercial engineer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is an alumnus of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He also attended the program for executive development at the Swiss leading business school International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. Career In 1979, aged 25, he started working for the Nestlé group and worked in different countries, including Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Portugal, Czech Republic and Germany. Before his appointment as CEO of Nestlé, he was the executive vice president of its Americas divisions. Bulcke has described Nestlé under his tenure as 'une force tranquille' (English: 'calm strength'). He is known for having a reserved, quiet personal manner. He was succeeded as CEO by Ulf Mark Schneider in January 2017. Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telenor
Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, but focused in Scandinavia and Asia. It has extensive broadband and TV distribution operations in four Nordic countries, and a 10-year-old research and business line for machine-to-machine technology. Telenor owns networks in 8 countries.Global presence - Telenor website. Retrieved October 23, 2017. Telenor is listed on the and had a market capitalization in November 2015 of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Fredrik Baksaas
Jon Fredrik Baksaas (born 1954) was the Chairman of the GSMA until 2016, and CEO of Telenor until August 2015. He now serves as a special adviser to the telecommunications company's Group Executive Management team. Among the longest-serving top executives in international telecoms and in Norwegian business life, Baksaas served as President and CEO of Telenor for 13 years, from June 2002 to August 2015. His resignation came under a cloud, as he had acted as one of the primary actors in a bribery and corruption scandal at VimpelCom (where he was a director), in connection with the purchase of wireless licenses in Uzbekistan. Before taking the top position at Telenor, he had served as Telenor’s deputy CEO, CFO, and executive vice president. He joined Telenor in 1989. Career Before joining Telenor, Baksaas served as CFO in both Aker ASA, Stolt-Nielsen Seaway and also Det Norske Veritas. In addition to his previous chairmanship at the GSM Association, he is also a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
