Olivier Laplace

Dec 6, 2023 | imd.org | Peter Nathanial |Jim Pulcrano |Olivier Laplace |Karl Schmedders

On 19 March this year, the Swiss authorities adopted a package of measures that enabled the takeover of Credit Suisse Group (CS) by rival UBS. The Federal Council, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the regulatory authority FINMA had concluded that they needed to act to protect the Swiss economy and avert further damage. The dramatic intervention, held on a Sunday evening, took many by surprise, particularly because many voices had confirmed that CS had sufficient liquidity to weather the storm.

Dec 5, 2023 | imd.org | Jim Pulcrano |Olivier Laplace |Karl Schmedders |Michael Skapinker

 In the late noughties, the rise of the internet made it far more convenient to share physical assets on a larger scale. Termed the “sharing economy” by Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig in 2008, it led to a proliferation of companies such as Uber and Airbnb, all promising to revolutionize the way people used and shared resources from cars and houses to power tools and surfboards.

Dec 4, 2023 | imd.org | Jim Pulcrano |Olivier Laplace

In times of crisis, leaders must strike a balance between running too hot or too cold.

Oct 19, 2023 | imd.org | Jim Pulcrano |Olivier Laplace

Technology-driven change is not a new phenomenon: we have been juggling with concepts of organizational transformation to respond to the advent of new technology for 25 years and more. But, in just the last five years, we have seen massive technological changes impacting our lives at the same time as a global pandemic, escalating climate change, and an increasingly threatening geopolitical landscape.