Vanina Farber
@van1nafar.bsky.social
elea Professor of social innovation at IMD and EMBA Dean. Current work on impact investment, blended finance and humanitarian finance. Mother of twins at Uni.
What if reimagining aid begins with reciprocity?
Ayni, parma, giri, seva, hau, ubuntu offer a vision of aid:
where value flows through trust, not transfer.
Where giving is not power.
And receiving is not dependence.
Because we are not complete without one another.
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Ayni, parma, giri, seva, hau, ubuntu offer a vision of aid:
where value flows through trust, not transfer.
Where giving is not power.
And receiving is not dependence.
Because we are not complete without one another.
open.substack.com/pub/vaninafa...
On Ayni, Giri, Seva, Hau, and Ubuntu. Reimagining Aid Through Reciprocity
I’m just back from the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on #ReimaginingAid.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What if reimagining aid begins with reciprocity?
Ayni, parma, giri, seva, hau, ubuntu offer a vision of aid:
where value flows through trust, not transfer.
Where giving is not power.
And receiving is not dependence.
Because we are not complete without one another.
open.substack.com/pub/vaninafa...
Ayni, parma, giri, seva, hau, ubuntu offer a vision of aid:
where value flows through trust, not transfer.
Where giving is not power.
And receiving is not dependence.
Because we are not complete without one another.
open.substack.com/pub/vaninafa...
I’m sorry that my daughters, are facing battles my mother’s generation had won.
The right to control their bodies, the right to be paid fairly, the right to walk home without fear,neve. #DEI initiatives dismissed, Gender violence, on&offline. Bro culture glorified.
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The right to control their bodies, the right to be paid fairly, the right to walk home without fear,neve. #DEI initiatives dismissed, Gender violence, on&offline. Bro culture glorified.
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Vanina Farber on LinkedIn: #dei #burden #alone #equality #all #personal #urgent #backlash #diverse… | 97 comments
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry that my daughters, stepping into adulthood, are facing battles my mother’s generation had won.
Sorry that we, the generation that was… | 97 comments on LinkedIn
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March 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I’m sorry that my daughters, are facing battles my mother’s generation had won.
The right to control their bodies, the right to be paid fairly, the right to walk home without fear,neve. #DEI initiatives dismissed, Gender violence, on&offline. Bro culture glorified.
www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
The right to control their bodies, the right to be paid fairly, the right to walk home without fear,neve. #DEI initiatives dismissed, Gender violence, on&offline. Bro culture glorified.
www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
The Feb2025 IMD #EMBA graduated after hard work and a lot of fun! I had the honor, as Dean, to address this amazing class. In a world that often feels heavy and dark they gave me #light Their ability to find joy— #transformative, #defiant, #connected renewed my own www.linkedin.com/pulse/joy-ro...
Joy On the Road
"It's a kind of magic. One dream, One soul, One prize, One goal, One golden glance of what should be.
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February 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The Feb2025 IMD #EMBA graduated after hard work and a lot of fun! I had the honor, as Dean, to address this amazing class. In a world that often feels heavy and dark they gave me #light Their ability to find joy— #transformative, #defiant, #connected renewed my own www.linkedin.com/pulse/joy-ro...
María Elena Walsh, Argentina’s poet &musician, was born Feb 1, 1930. Growing up I learned #music could sing #rebellion, challenge power, and injustice. Those early encounters with creative resistance shaped how I saw the world—and how I learned to speak back to it www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
Vanina Farber on LinkedIn: #music #rebellion #challenge #love #humble #necessary #elephants #words…
María Elena Walsh, Argentina’s beloved poet, musician, and storyteller, was born February 1st 1930, 90 years ago. Growing up during Argentina's military rule…
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February 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
María Elena Walsh, Argentina’s poet &musician, was born Feb 1, 1930. Growing up I learned #music could sing #rebellion, challenge power, and injustice. Those early encounters with creative resistance shaped how I saw the world—and how I learned to speak back to it www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz. What #choices define us when faced with #fear? What makes someone #StandUp while others #StandBy? What makes someone be #complicit in a system of injustice and horror? www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
Vanina Farber on LinkedIn: When Fear Meets Choice
80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz, a dinner conversation about fear led me to reflect about #heritage, #choice, and moral #courage and inspired this…
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January 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz. What #choices define us when faced with #fear? What makes someone #StandUp while others #StandBy? What makes someone be #complicit in a system of injustice and horror? www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
#GenAI #impact on academia is controversial. Yet, once an invention exists, our understanding of the world inevitably shifts. The challenge lies in adapting to harness its potential promoting #ethical use, preserving #critical thinking & human #judgment www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
Vanina Farber on LinkedIn: Considerations before using AI in the classroom
Did you know that over a third of top US universities still don’t have clear #AI #policies? And more than half leave decisions about AI use up to #individual…
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January 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Arendt's analysis on mob and capital, how business interests often aligned with totalitarian movements, not ideological conviction, but a combination of pragmatic opportunism and the belief they could maintain control over political forces they ultimately couldn't www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
Vanina Farber on LinkedIn: #ordinary #gradual #shared #atomization #loneliness #democratic #hope… | 95 comments
I saw this picture of Hannah Arendt in a colleagues office. (Frédéric Dalsace) This weekend, while watching an ever more dystopian world in the news, I went… | 95 comments on LinkedIn
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January 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Arendt's analysis on mob and capital, how business interests often aligned with totalitarian movements, not ideological conviction, but a combination of pragmatic opportunism and the belief they could maintain control over political forces they ultimately couldn't www.linkedin.com/posts/vanina...
Some might say I'm just a little white dog, but I've mastered the art of fitting perfectly into every moment - My humans have discovered what I've known all along - everything is more comfortable when we're together. Have a great 2025!
December 31, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Some might say I'm just a little white dog, but I've mastered the art of fitting perfectly into every moment - My humans have discovered what I've known all along - everything is more comfortable when we're together. Have a great 2025!
Grateful to John Byrne P&Q for spotlighting our reimagined Executive MBA! A transformed executive EMBA with flexible pathways, personalized formats & the full power of IMD's ecosystem. Ready to lead differently? Check us out! poetsandquants.com/2024/12/19/i...
#ExecutiveMBA #flexibility #imdimpact
#ExecutiveMBA #flexibility #imdimpact
Inside IMD's New & Highly Innovative Executive MBA Program
Vanina Farber, dean of IMD's Executive MBA program, explains why the school redesigned the program for greater flexibility and customization
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December 20, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Grateful to John Byrne P&Q for spotlighting our reimagined Executive MBA! A transformed executive EMBA with flexible pathways, personalized formats & the full power of IMD's ecosystem. Ready to lead differently? Check us out! poetsandquants.com/2024/12/19/i...
#ExecutiveMBA #flexibility #imdimpact
#ExecutiveMBA #flexibility #imdimpact
“Je ne veux plus qu'elles aient honte. La honte, ce n'est pas à nous de l'avoir, c'est à eux. (...) J'exprime surtout ma volonté et détermination pour qu'on change cette société" Gisèle Pelicot
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
“Je ne veux plus qu'elles aient honte. La honte, ce n'est pas à nous de l'avoir, c'est à eux. (...) J'exprime surtout ma volonté et détermination pour qu'on change cette société" Gisèle Pelicot
From Spain to Switzerland, back to Spain, then Peru, and now Switzerland again - a journey that's made me deeply aware of both #privilege and #challenge. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
Moving to Opportunity, Together
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December 10, 2024 at 9:33 AM
From Spain to Switzerland, back to Spain, then Peru, and now Switzerland again - a journey that's made me deeply aware of both #privilege and #challenge. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
I will be at #BuildingBridges with other amazing programs shaping the future of sustainable finance. Each program shows the transformative power of education in unlocking #innovative #solutions. See you there if you are #Geneva www.buildingbridges.org/event/sustai...
Building Bridges : Aligning Finance with Sustainability - Sustainable Finance Educational Programs
Building Bridges is more than an event, it is a powerful movement of committed people and organizations that aim to accelerate the transition to sustainable financial system.
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December 9, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I will be at #BuildingBridges with other amazing programs shaping the future of sustainable finance. Each program shows the transformative power of education in unlocking #innovative #solutions. See you there if you are #Geneva www.buildingbridges.org/event/sustai...
#Unfair dismissal, a career stifled and sex discrimination due to family responsibilities? . Shocking, I know! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Goldman Sachs told paternity leave banker who queried work-life balance ‘you’re a grown man, sort it’
Tribunal rules that Jon Reeves was sexually discriminated against by financial institution
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December 8, 2024 at 6:57 AM
#Unfair dismissal, a career stifled and sex discrimination due to family responsibilities? . Shocking, I know! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...