Watching And Participating In Davos
The World Economic Forum's annual meeting of political and business leaders is taking place between January 23rd and January 27th in Davos, Switzerlan...
The World Economic Forum's annual meeting of political and business leaders is taking place between January 23rd and January 27th in Davos, Switzerlan...
The Guardian | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business
They normally come by private jet, for a few days of high-octane dealmaking and maybe a little aprés-ski on the side. Every January, the Swiss resor...
Portfolio | Anna Sussman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business
Since its heyday in the early 1900s as a refuge for the wealthy and tuberculosis-stricken, Davos (pronounced Dah-vos by outsiders and Dah-vos by resid...
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.
CNET News | Posted 08.14.2008 | Business
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the corporate and governmental bigwigs in attenda...
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Eric Hippeau, a Managing Partner of venture capital investor SoftBank capital, was recently interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerl...
AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.....
AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
DAVOS, Switzerland — The idea was simple: Job training centers should be as ubiquitous as gas stations, a man called freesouljah said in a video...
Wall Street Journal | Robert A. Guth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism. In a speech at the...
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The people here, from Al Gore to Bono to H.R.H. the Duke of York, are grand, as are the world's challenges. There's so much going on, so much information to synthesize.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
I am acutely aware of the poverty, human rights violations and violence that fills our world and I look for ways I might make a difference.
GlobalVoices | Juliana RincÃn Parra | Posted 02.27.2009 | World