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Kai-Fu Lee

The Internet entrepreneur

Former Google China President Kai-Fu Lee on his new company.
Those familiar with the hi-tech industry in China will be hard-pressed to find anyone who has had a greater impact on the modern Chinese Internet scene than Kai-Fu Lee.

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Khaled Suleiman Head

Banking on reason

… by one who knows how: Khaled Suleiman.
“I always say, ‘If you have a huge operation and you want to double its size, it’s like moving an elephant, but when you are starting from a smaller base, to double the size can happen in months…”

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WEF 2010

World Economic Forum 2010

Swiss Style’s Special Davos World Economic Forum’s 2010 Annual Meeting Special Issue. In this issue, we concentrate on the meeting’s general themes of ‘ Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild’…

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The euro’s existential crisis

The euro’s existential crisis

It was only in the fall of last year at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh that the Europeans, led by French President Sarkozy, advocated an increase in funding for the IMF. They were driven by the fear that the financial crisis would extend at an alarming rate to an ever-increasing number of countries.
So when Greece was badly hit by the crisis early this year many eyebrows were raised when the two biggest economies of the eurozone…

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Propaganda at its best

Ruben Igielko-Herrlich and Anders Granath

Swiss Style recently had the great pleasure to sit down with Ruben Igielko-Herrlich and Anders Granath, the founders of Propaganda GEM, a leading entertainment marketing agency specializing in product placement…

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Innovation Award 2010

Swiss Style Global Innovation Award 2010

January 2010: Swiss Style’s John Béguin and Lyndsay Howard, co chair of the Global Innovation award committee give Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT, the award for his inspired and ongoing efforts to make a difference on both climate change and global hunger at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos…

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Technological progress

Technological progress: A burden in disguise?

A preview of emerging technological trends and their societal implications.
The idea of putting our planet on life support is a sobering thought. Tech savvy geo-engineers have been discussing a “Plan B” for saving the planet. If we cannot get the world to collectively agree on cutting carbon emissions then technically interfering with the Earth could offer an alternative…

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A portrait of John Rossant

High striving

A portrait of John Rossant.
Life is always something of a puzzle. The trick is to make all the pieces fit in a neat and logical sequence. For John Rossant, the picture just seemed to develop organically from an auspicious start to his current position as Executive Chairman of PublicisLive, each piece fitting on top of the next, from typewriter to Twitter, as it were. But it was by no means the humdrum life of a careerist…

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Lorenzo Lotti

Framing Nature: Putting the “art” in architecture

Lorenzo Lotti’s recently inaugurated project “Le Pommier” not only has the above qualities of a product “Made in Switzerland” but it is also the first large architectural design in Geneva to be awarded the stringent environmental label “Minergie”…

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The dawn of a new era

The dawn of a new era

Renault to launch the ZE Concept in Switzerland.
Are you ready to drive the change? Renault is. In recent years, the world-renowned automobile company has become the poster child for corporate sustainability because of its dedication to incorporating the concept into both its products and its long-term business strategy….

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