First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, operating across five continents. FAB is the first bank in the MENA region to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050 and is making strides in the space of sustainability across its own operations and supporting its clients to achieve their climate goals.
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, operating across five continents. FAB is the first bank in the MENA region to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050 and is making strides in the space of sustainability across its own operations and supporting its clients to achieve their climate goals.
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) with campuses in Lausanne and Singapore is an independent academic institution with Swiss roots and global reach, founded 75 years ago by business leaders. Its executive education and degree programs are consistently ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes and others. IMD has been a pioneering force in developing leaders who transform organisations and
contribute to society.
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) with campuses in Lausanne and Singapore is an independent academic institution with Swiss roots and global reach, founded 75 years ago by business leaders. Its executive education and degree programs are consistently ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes and others. IMD has been a pioneering force in developing leaders who transform organisations and
contribute to society.
Course Overview
Join the programme and learn from leading sustainability scholars and practitioners from world renowned institutions and organisations.
Course Overview
Join the programme and learn from leading sustainability scholars and practitioners from world renowned institutions and organisations.
Programme Modules - Overview
Understanding the Global Context
This module introduces the objectives of the programme and introduces you to your fellow participants. You will learn about the megatrends that are shaping our world and how to develop a clear vision of your organisation's intended future in order to anticipate and seize sustainability opportunities for breakthrough growth.
Faculty
1. Knut Haanaes
2. Hischam El-Agamy
The Strategic Implications on the Region
This module will help you understand the economics of climate change, the impact of
evolving regulation and the workings behind sustainability and ESG strategies, as well as
assessing transition risks. You will be introduced to frameworks that bring all ESG factors together and enable you to think strategically to achieve triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) impact.
You will learn scenario planning methodologies and tools and have the opportunity to apply your learning to an ESG issue.
Faculty
1. Hischam El-Agamy
2. Karl Schmedders
3. Knut Haanaes
Business and Leadership Implications
This final module focuses on business and personal impact and how you can use your leadership role to influence and accelerate sustainable business change. The module will also look at getting the right resources through sustainable financing tools and business models to make change happen. Finally, you will have the opportunity to present your sustainability scenario to a wider audience.
Faculty
1. Hischam El-Agamy
2. Salvatore Cantale
3. Knut Haanaes
Programme Modules
Overview
Understanding the Global Context
This module introduces the objectives of the programme and introduces you to your fellow participants. You will learn about the megatrends that are shaping our world and how to develop a clear vision of your organisation's intended future in order to anticipate and seize sustainability opportunities for breakthrough growth.
Faculty
1. Knut Haanaes
2. Hischam El-Agamy
The Strategic Implications
on the Region
This module will help you understand the economics of climate change, the impact of evolving regulation and the workings behind sustainability and ESG strategies, as well as assessing transition risks. You will be introduced to frameworks that bring all ESG factors together and enable you to think strategically to achieve triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) impact. You will learn scenario planning methodologies and tools and have the opportunity to apply your learning to an ESG issue.
Faculty
1. Hischam El-Agamy
2. Karl Schmedders
3. Knut Haanaes
Business and Leadership Implications
This final module focuses on business and personal impact and how you can use your leadership role to influence and accelerate sustainable business change. The module will also look at getting the right resources through sustainable financing tools and business models to make change happen. Finally, you will have the opportunity to present your sustainability scenario to a wider audience.
Faculty
1. Hischam El-Agamy
2. Salvatore Cantale
3. Knut Haanaes
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Module Overview
Module 1
Module 1
- Welcome to Frontiers in Sustainability
- Why Sustainability Now?
- Mega-trends governing our world
- Big picture - sustainability at the core of strategy
- A future-back exercise on climate
- Introduction to scenario planning
- Deep dive on positive impact topics
- Wrap-up of Module 1 – Key takeaways and next steps
Module 2
Module 2
Module 3
Module 3
- The just transition and E vs S conflict
- Perspectives on innovation
- Materiality, ESG reporting and the changing reporting landscape
- The risks of greenwashing
- Triple impact Business Models and ESG success measurement
- Developing ESG strategies
- Wrap-up of Module 3 – Key takeaways and next steps
Module 4
Module 4
- Leaders for driving the sustainability agenda
- Scenario driving policies
- Organisational readiness and sustainable business model
- COP Simulation Briefing
- COP Simulation
- From Scenario to Strategy
- Programs read outs and learning
- Scenario Planning - Project group presentations
- Graduation ceremony
Faculty
Knut Haanaes
Strategy – Lundin Sustainability Chair
PhD Copenhagen Business School
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
Knut Haanaes is the author of numerous articles, case studies and projects.
Find out more information about Knut Haanaes’ publications
Knut Haanaes is a Professor of Strategy at IMD, where he holds the Lundin Sustainability Chair. He was until June 2020 Dean of the Global Leadership Institute at the World Economic Forum. He teaches in many of the key programs at IMD, including the MBA, Board programs and other executive programs.
His research interests are related to strategy, digital transformation and sustainability. In the area of strategy, he focuses on strategy styles, corporate renewal and business models. In sustainability, he examines topics such as the role of boards and sustainability, how to drive effective collaboration and how to demonstrate proof of sustainability value. In the area of digital transformation, he has focused extensively on digital business models and developed a new approach for how to teach executives to learn digital coding.
Professor Haanaes has published many articles in top publications such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and research reports for BCG and MIT. He is co-author of the bestselling book “Your Strategy Needs a Strategy” at Harvard Business Review Press, which has been translated into seven languages. He is also a TED speaker (“Two reasons companies fail – and how to avoid them”) with 2,3 million views.
Before joining IMD, Professor Haanaes was a Senior Partner at The Boston Consulting Group. At BCG he served as the Global Leader of the Strategy Practice and at various times led the BCG offices in Geneva and Oslo. He also established and build the BCG sustainability activity globally. Professor Haanaes has also been Executive Director of The Research Council of Norway, Chairman of BI Norwegian Business School and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He holds a MSc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), the IB program at Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD in Strategy from Copenhagen Business School (CBS).
Karl Schmedders
Finance
Ph.D. Stanford University
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
Karl Schmedders is the author of numerous articles, case studies and projects.
Find out more information about Karl Schmedders publications
Karl Schmedders is Professor of Finance at IMD.
Karl’s research focuses on quantitative methods in finance. He applies numerical solution techniques to complex economic and financial models shedding light on relevant market issues and industry problems. He has published numerous research articles in international academic journals such as Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Finance, and The Review of Financial Studies, among others.
In recent years, his research and teaching activities focus on sustainability. Karl has worked on the interplay between human economic activity and potential damages resulting from climate change. In addition, he has published in the popular press on carbon taxes and financial risks resulting from climate change.
Before joining IMD, Karl held (tenured) faculty positions at the Kellogg School of Management and at the University of Zurich. He is passionate about teaching and has received numerous teaching awards at Stanford University and Kellogg, including the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford‘s university-wide teaching award, and the L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year Award at Kellogg.
Karl holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University.
Salvatore Cantale
Finance
PhD, Finance at INSEAD
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
Salvatore Cantale is the author of numerous articles,
case studies and projects.
Find out more information about Salvatore Cantale publications
Salvatore Cantale is Professor of Finance. His academic and consulting work is divided into two different but complementary streams. First, he works at the intersection between strategy, business models, and financial results. He also sheds light on the relationship between ESG and finance, with the aim of increasing the understanding of how ESG policies impact both sustainability outcomes and financial results, and of helping
companies navigate ESG ambitions and regulatory requirements.
In the area of strategy, business models, and financial results, Cantale helps class participants and companies to decipher financial results, determine the financial implications of business initiatives, and develop the business case for courses of action by putting numbers on proposed measures. He insists that a better understanding of the financial implications of a desired course of corporate action is a prerequisite for any aspiring value-enhancing executive at any level. As a certified leadership coach, he also provides guidance on ways to improve the performance of finance functions. In the field of ESG and finance, he is interested in sustainable business models, climate tech, investor activism, and how financial tools such as green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and derivatives can help address challenges for corporations in financing their investments in this essential area. His work has been presented at the European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and has had a powerful impact on how to translate regulation and policy directions into implementable actions for companies. At IMD, his portfolio of activities covers a wide range of topics and participants. He directs the Finance for Boards (FFB) program as well as the Strategic Finance, Driving Sustainability from the Boardroom, Business Finance, and Bank Governance programs. He also teaches finance in the MBA program and delivers customized sessions on finance and strategy for general management programs such as the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the flagship program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP), and is Program Director of the Strategic Finance (SF) program. He has been published in a variety of international double-refereed journals on topics such as IPOs, security design, financial engineering, and dual listing. His work has also appeared in practitioner journals such as MIT Sloan Management Review, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and other media outlets., where he won numerous teaching awards.
Florian Hoos
Sustainability and ESG accounting
MSc Business Administration at University of Giessen, Germany PhD Management at HEC Lausanne
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
Florian Hoos is the author of numerous articles, case studies and projects.
Find out more information about Florian Hoos’ publications
Florian Hoos is Professor of Sustainability and ESG Accounting and the managing director of the Enterprise for Society (E4S) Center. He is an award-winning teacher, innovator, and writer who was selected by Poets&Quants as one of their global Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40 list in 2014. Before joining IMD, he served 10 years as faculty member at HEC Paris, where he directed the Master’s in Sustainability and Social Innovation program. He was also a visiting assistant professor at MIT Sloan School. Besides his academic career, he accumulated 10 years’ experience in leadership positions as managing director and entrepreneur with his own firm.
An accountant by training and impact innovator by experience, his work in academia and practice focuses on the challenges of triple-impact creation: making strong profits through integrating social and ecological aspects into business. The core of his work is helping organisations, from startups to multinationals, execute strategies with measurable economic, social, and ecological impact.He has designed and directed customised programs for several large multinationals, helping them to innovate business models, internal processes, and incentive and reporting systems that prepare them for a future where sustainability is at the heart of the business.
Besides his academic positions, Hoos was Managing Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship of the Technical University in Berlin, where he managed an accelerator and makerspace and advised deep-tech and tech-for-impact startups with his team of 20+ people. He has advised a wide range of companies from startups to multinationals on their ESG strategy, sustainable innovation, and business model development. As a certified radical collaboration trainer, he currently helps executives navigate the triple-impact transformation to guarantee a successful implementation of sustainable company structures such as triple-impact reporting and incentive systems.
His work has been published in leading scientific journals including Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, Management Accounting Research, and Accounting and Business Research. He is a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Learning & Education and won one of the journal’s 2020 best reviewer awards for his academic services. Hoos was a pioneer of online education with courses on the coursera.com platform including his course Social Entrepreneurship and Changemaking for the first fully online master’s program at HEC Paris. Besides multiple awards for his teaching in executive programs and pedagogical innovations, he won the Best Professor Award of HEC Paris (Prix Vernimmen) in 2014.
Hischam El Agamy
Scenario planning and business transformation
Doctorate, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
Hischam El Agamy is the author of numerous articles, case studies and projects.
Find out more information about Hischam El Agamy’ publications
Dr Hischam El Agamy is responsible for IMD’s activities in Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and South Central Asia. He has worked with various companies in the these regions to help to develop transformational learning journeys for their managers and executives.
Dr El Agamy’s expertise and teaching experience include scenario planning, entrepreneurship, family business transformation, private, public partnership and stakeholder engagement.
He is teaching regularly in IMD customs programs and taught in several programs at IMD open programs, including the IMD EMBA and MBA programs.
He has contributed to several advisory assignments for several governments in the Gulf region and the government of South Africa in the area of competitiveness and human capital development.
Over 14 years, Dr El Agamy previously occupied various international functions in seven European countries as part of a long career with major Swiss multinational corporations in Zürich. He has driven several business transformation initiatives in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Holland, and Switzerland during these years.
He initially studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he obtained a Master’s in applied geology, received a Master’s degree in applied geophysics from the University of Lausanne and his Doctorate in the same subject from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. Dr El-Agamy graduated from several IMD executives development programs.
Dr El Agamy is the co-founder of the Tharawat Family Business Forum, the leading network for family businesses in the MENA region. With his family, he built Orbis Terra Media, a global content studio based in Switzerland which also publishes Tharawat Magazine, an award-winning publication for family businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Articles
> Urgent Solutions Are Required To Make The South African
> Youth Employable- Huffington Post
> What kind of business leaders does Africa need? – Bizcommunity, South Africa
> The real winners of the FIFA world cup
> Establishing a pan-African bank (co-author) IMD and FT 2013
> East Asian inspirations for Egypt: Rebooting an economy by learning from others(co-author) IMD and Huffington Post 2011
Case studies
> WIPHOLD : BEYOND LABOR AND CONSUMPTION (co-au- thor) – Award winner
> ECOBANK: A PASSION TO BUILD A WORLD CLASS PAN AFRICAN BANK (co-author)
> Absa BANK : INVENTIN A BANK’S FUTURE WITH AFRICANAC- ITY – Award winner
Catherine Agamis
Business Transformation Sustainability
MPhil in Business Administration, Grenoble Ecole de Management
MSc Innovation management INSTN/Dauphine University Ingénieur Grande Ecole Agro Paris Tech
PUBLICATIONS, CASES, PROJECTS
> Advisory Services
> Senior executive business coaching
> IMD open programs in Strategy and custom programs
Catherine is a project lead in Transformation and Learning Journeys and a Business Executive coach.
She works with clients throughout the process to facilitate addressing major challenges facing their business and our time, create opportunities and ensure high impact for individuals, teams and the organisation.
She has worked on the Strategy Execution and Winning sustainable strategies open program and several custom programs. She also provides coaching for Senior Executives on Business programs.
Prior to joining the IMD, she led and delivered several Transformation projects in large multinational corporations from diverse industries with Capgemini Invent. Her practice also includes academic research on strategic networks, boundary spanning and value creation.
She furthers her expertise on sustainability topic with a focus on Natural Capital. Catherine is an engineer in Life Sciences from the Grande Ecole Agro-ParisTech. She has a MSc in Innovation and Technology management from Dauphine University, Paris and INSTN CEA Saclay and a MPhil in Business Administration from Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble.
Field of practices:
> Strategic thinking and Strategy Execution
> Design Thinking
> Value creation
> Business model
> Change Management
> Sustainability approaches (Planetary boundaries, Natural Capital)
Awards
> Gold award EFMD – Talent
> Brandon Hall Gold Excellence Awards – Learning strategy
> Brandon Hall Gold Excellence Awards – Technology
> LIP Silver Awards (chief learning officer) – Executive Education
