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WEF 2010

Swiss Style Special WEF 210

Walking the talk – literally

Sustainable development: A good investment strategy
“If you have certain convictions in your personal life, you also apply them to your professional life.”—Ivan Pictet
Sustainable development is no longer just an idea [...]

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Swiss Style Global Innovation Award 2010

SWISS STYLE honours TNT Express CEO Peter Bakker and employees for their CSR linking hunger and climate change solutions
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus reminded us: “No man is free until [...]

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Sustainability is balance

Ariane de Rothschild has an undeniable passion
When children ask their parents for an expensive toy, the answer worldwide is often: “Do I look like a Rothschild to you?” With the [...]

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Green Leaders

Klaus Kleinfeld on why sustainability is encoded in Alcoa’s DNA
It is common knowledge that being at the right place at the right time is half the battle. Yet often this [...]

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The performance aspect of sustainability

How today’s companies can gain a competitive edge
In the wake of a major global recession, the days when a successful company’s only priority is to maxi-mize profits are long gone. [...]

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Adjusting sails

An optimistic perspective on the wind energy market and the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
From a modest blacksmith shop set up in Lem, Denmark by H. S. Hansen in 1898, Vestijysk [...]

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Improve cash to deliver customer delight

Too often, companies do not run, think and measure processes. They run as separate functions and departments with individual goals and deliverables. They do not apply a standard framework or [...]

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Rethinking (or rebuilding?) bubbles

Pop goes the bubble
The lives of millions have been caught up in economic bubbles that seem beyond anyone’s power to control. Boom followed by bust – can anything be done [...]

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Technology leadership made in Switzerland

Swiss know-how again at the forefront
When, last fall, WISeKey, the bespoke digital security solutions company, was named the sole provider of security software and services to the high-tech sailing syndicate [...]

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Global Growth Companies

The future movers and shakers of the business world
The Global Growth Companies (GCCs) is a relatively new branch of the World Economic Forum designed to focus on emerging multinational companies. [...]

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Communication is the key

Oliver Niedermaier on the changing world of communication
When communication is your business, you have to stay on the ball. As the world constantly evolves, so do the ways in which [...]

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Out of the comfort zone

Pramod Bhasin, Genpact CEO, looks ahead
Like love and, to an extent, cooking, economics are definitely an inexact science. Those who expect the solid and dependable predictions will often be disappointed. [...]

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Making the best of a crisis

Azerbaijan and the International Bank of Azerbaijan set the example
Just prior to the Davos Annual Meeting, Swiss Style met with Dr Jahangir Hajiyev, Chairman of the Board of the International [...]

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Understanding risk

The importance of risk transfer in dealing with climate-related dangers
Over the past 50 years, severe weather disasters have caused some 800,000 deaths and over a trillion dollars in economic loss [...]

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The new emerging order

Are emerging markets the new drivers of the global economy?
At the beginning of the 20th century, the boxer Joe Walcott (aka “The Barbados Demon”) was welterweight champion of the world [...]

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Making the pieces fit

Grant McKibbin puts the puzzle together
Grant McKibbin is a busy man. As Head of Membership at the World Economic Forum, his is a demanding job at the best of times. [...]

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Rethinking fiscal stimulus

How stimulus packages can lead to growth
The world today is in a state of perpetual déjà vu. The current global recession has already been compared countless times in the press [...]

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How to regulate the regulators

A powerful force in modern capitalism
A look at the history of credit rating agencies shows that regulating the regulators is easier [...]

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Global solutions for global problems

André Schneider on what needs to be done
Over the course of its history, the World Economic Forum has achieved a proud record of accomplishments in advancing progress on key issues [...]

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Comment – WEF 2010

To the casual observer that I was, the New Champion’s Meeting held in late September 2008 was an unnerving place. In an early Monday morning announcement a few days prior [...]

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