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Bertrand Piccard: Why leaders should stop trying to convince people (opens the original)
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In this episode, Swiss explorer and psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard joins IMD MBA candidate Kartik Ashta to discuss why resistance is often a signal to change approach rather than push harder. Drawing on his record-breaking adventures and pioneering clean-technology projects, Piccard explains why great leaders motivate instead of convince, how crises become opportunities when we accept them, and what leaders must be willing to "throw overboard" to adapt to a changing world. Our guest: Bertrand Pic
How does Lamberto Frescobaldi future-proof a 700-year-old business? (opens the original)
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How do you lead a company when you are not its ultimate owner, but the custodian of a centuries-old legacy? Lamberto Frescobaldi represents the 30th generation of one of Italy’s most enduring wine families. His answer is uncompromising: inherited assets should have “value zero”; leaders must focus on what they create during their own lifetime. In conversation with Alfredo De Massis, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at IMD, Frescobaldi explains why “tradition […] can trick you,”
Can David Loew turn Ipsen into pharma’s next giant? (opens the original)
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Ipsen CEO David Loew unpacks six years of radical transformation that enabled a mid-sized, family-controlled biopharma company to take on the biggest competitors in the industry. Our Guest: David Loew, CEO, Ipsen David Loew has served as CEO of Ipsen, a publicly listed, family-controlled specialty biopharma group (~6,000 employees, ~€4 billion revenue, operations in 40 countries, products in 100 countries), since July 2020. He joined Ipsen from Sanofi, where he led Sanofi Pasteur, the company's
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