International Institute for Management Development

International Institute for Management Development is a business education school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. It specializes in executive education offering open enrollment programs for senior executives, as well as longer-term educational engagements that are customized for senior executives of a particular company. IMD is not part of a university, but it does offer MBA and Executive MBA programs.

IMD was formed in January 1990 through the merger of independent management education centers International Management Institute , established in 1946 by Alcan, and Institut pour l'Etude des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise Lausanne established in 1957 by Nestlé. The new organization, the International Institute for Management Development , settled in Lausanne. The history of IMEDE and its merger with IMI is documented in Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Hein Schreuder . Its industrial heritage is unusual for business schools, which are usually university-affiliated.

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