IMD

While some of our applicants already have leadership experience, it is not a requirement. When we read your application, we are looking for your potential in leadership - often seen through your letters of recommendation and/or your previous work experience or extra curricula activities. The program then aims to develop that potential.

Your three confidential letters of recommendation give us an extra assessment of your overall personality, your business achievements and your leadership capabilities. We therfore prefer that you have letters from people who you’ve worked with - your former supervisor or your current supervisor or boss, a client, or even a colleague. But what we don’t want to see at IMD is, for example, the CEO to write a letter for you just because he/she is the CEO. Their position doesn’t necessarily matter; we want to just make sure that they know something about you and can attest to your business acumen. We typically don’t like professors to write letters of recommendation just because a professor cannot really attest to anybody’s business experience after seven or eight years.

No - these are just averages. In order to apply you need to be at least 25 and you need a minimum of 3 years full-time, post-graduate work experience.

You do not need to have lived or worked outside of your home country, however you do need to have international exposure. For example, a Chinese person in China dealing with countries outside of their countriy, or travelling for business, or someone who has studied abroad, travelled extensively for leisure and/or speaks foreign languages. Bring out all aspects in your application.