MBA Program Director

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Hi everyone! I'm Martha Maznevski, and proud to be the Program Director for IMD's MBA program. I'm Canadian, and have turned my country's passion for multiculturalism into a lifelong journey. I believe that business is one of the most important positive forces in global society - if we get it right. I enjoy working with MBAs and executives here on challenges and opportunities as we all try to "get it right". In this blog I reflect on the program and leading globally - from the program director's point of view.

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Driving lessons, Indian style

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Friday, 23 Mar 2012 08:14 Comments

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Getting from one place to another in Mumbai or Bangalore gives you a lot of time to reflect, and at the same time gives you a lot to reflect on. The famous emerging-market-mega-city traffic snarls provide the opportunity to reflect. The continuous f ...[Read more]

Yes there is a woman in the room

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Thursday, 15 Mar 2012 12:21 Comments

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…and she’s teaching! This blog, in the spirit of “international women’s month”, reflects on my own experiences as a woman professor at IMD. It is more personal than most of my blogs, rather than my “normal” reflections about what we do, how we do ...[Read more]

If your organization is better for women, it’s better for everyone.

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Thursday, 8 Mar 2012 09:16 Comments

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I’m not saying that women are better performers. Or even that women are somehow more demanding about having a nice organizational environment, which in the end everyone appreciates. Both those statements may or may not be true, but that’s not my poi ...[Read more]

From salt to subsidies: Lessons from the German heartland for Global Business Schools

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012 09:28 Comments

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How many global leadership professors does it take to decipher southwestern German business culture? I am not sure what the minimum is, but certainly the 35 of us meeting in at German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn last week made ...[Read more]

Loving the vortex of learning about global leadership

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Tuesday, 21 Feb 2012 09:51 Comments

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Business school academics generally choose their career for one or both of two reasons. First, they’re passionate – almost obsessive – about pursuing a set of ideas. Most business school professors are so curious about particular themes and seeing t ...[Read more]

The IMD MBA in 2051: A peek into the future

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012 08:57 Comments

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Note: my original blog written for February 15 is scheduled to be published in the Financial Times in early April, so I’m holding it off until then. The piece below was written in December 2011 to honour our 40th MBA graduation at IMD. I was asked ...[Read more]

FT Rankings: Our Love-Hate Relationship with the league tables, and what we learn from them.

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012 06:51 Comments

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On Monday January 30, the Financial Times rankings for full-time MBA programs were released. These are the most important rankings for schools outside the US, and the week before is the week of the year during which MBA program directors around the ...[Read more]

Every Day is Wednesday

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 03:00 Comments

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On Friday evening I toured the dungeons to see how things were going in the study rooms. The corridor is always busy with interesting work going on, and always some fun socializing at the same time. One of the groups handed me a bag of marshmallows ...[Read more]

Civil rights activists and MBAs: The fundamentals for empowerment

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Monday, 16 Jan 2012 05:14 Comments

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On January 15 the US marks Martin Luther King Jr. day, honoring the influential civil rights activist on his birthday. My friend Omar Garriott, one of my alumni from the Commerce School at the University of Virginia, takes this opportunity annually ...[Read more]

The Dawn of the Class of 2012 – What will be revealed?

Maznevski, Martha Calendar

Monday, 9 Jan 2012 10:47 Comments

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As I drove into IMD this morning, the sun was just rising over the mountains in the southeast. The features of the landscape were in spectacular silhouette and, as I drove and the sun climbed, more and more of the familiar characteristics emerged. B ...[Read more]

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Driving lessons, Indian style

Yes there is a woman in the room

If your organization is better for women, it’s better for everyone.

From salt to subsidies: Lessons from the German heartland for Global Business Schools

Loving the vortex of learning about global leadership

The IMD MBA in 2051: A peek into the future

FT Rankings: Our Love-Hate Relationship with the league tables, and what we learn from them.

Every Day is Wednesday

Civil rights activists and MBAs: The fundamentals for empowerment

The Dawn of the Class of 2012 – What will be revealed?