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Issue 223

Swiss Style Issue 223

Bling boom

At first glance, the auctioning of diamonds might seem unimportant, and record-breaking proceeds just the price ultra-high-net-worth individuals are willing to pay to dump excess cash. But Swiss Style’s Lauriane [...]

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Executive maintenance

The benefits of progress are measurable, or so it seems. At times, however, the costs are high, human costs in particular, which is frequently ignored in the bottom line. Even [...]

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International appeal

For entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, top managers and other professionals, trotting around the globe is all in a day’s work, and the families just have to adapt. Most hubs boast any [...]

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Growth project

New generations of leaders in a family enterprise can make or break the business. The job of balancing legacy products and services with the needs of a fickle market can [...]

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A class of its own

Bilingualism, at the very least, is a given in a world where borders are eroding rapidly and nowhere more than in the French part of Switzerland. This is a boon [...]

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Mario Garnero Given ‘Global Innovation Award’

At a Ceremony held in London, Prize acknowledges Lifelong Commitment to Development by Brasilinvest´s Boss Mario Garnero, Chairman of Brasilinvest, Brazil’s pioneer merchant bank, was presented with the 2011 Global [...]

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Travels on the edge

How difficult is it to travel along the entire Swiss border by paddling, cycling and – the really hard part – climbing? All this summer (July–September), the news and information [...]

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Techno matchmaker

Back in the land of Arcadia, people would rely on barter economy and stay clear of any potentially hazardous cutting-edge technology, aware of the human capacity of turning sophistication into [...]

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Vox helvetiae

From smoke signals, cave drawings, semaphore and heliographs, to the franchise system of the Catholic Church and religious hymns, human beings have always been excited about spreading some sort of [...]

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Back-bites

The moving finger writes… Tempus fugit. Most of us prefer to think of our last breath as a far off event measurable in say the unit of time it takes [...]

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Délire à deux

The most enduring cinematic formula produced and replicated thousands of times to cheering audiences is the road movie. The reason is simplicity: take any number of individuals, place them in [...]

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Raising coin

The scapegoat, the Bible tells us, is an animal sent into the desert to carry away sins. Similarly, in many cultures, being charitable is a way of unburdening the soul. [...]

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The right stuff

A constant influx of individuals and companies taking up badly needed space in a tiny city has turned Geneva into a nightmare for many dwellers. Real estate companies can make [...]

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The big BRIC bricks

The media always seem surprised by sudden national manifestations like the emerging economies even though they were long in the making. And then comes the blind awe at the events. [...]

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Ringleaders

When two people decide to marry, the future of the union is as predictable as a game of blackjack. All hopes for permanence are often placed in a small but [...]

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Up close and personal

Each industry has its special rules demanded by product and user. Cosmetics, in particular at the high end of the market, are governed by various such forces as intimacy versus [...]

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Company on the couch

What’s good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander. When Meinrad Fleischmann moved from a clothing company to Pfister, a venerable but somewhat plodding furniture chain, he had [...]

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Deliberate Swiss

One of the simplest ploys of political hacks to garner votes is the play on national aspirations to, at times elusive, greatness. Vicarious nationalism is simple. Quantifying and qualifying national [...]

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On the cutting edge

How deceptive postcard pictures can be. A small, sleepy town nestled in the green pastures of quiet, quaint Switzerland; a large family devoted to the craft business founded by their [...]

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Comment – Issue 223

It is not always plain sailing being Swiss. Practically every country on the planet whines about your bank-secrecy laws. You have been in a landlocked country in the middle of [...]

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