Davos 2008

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Dish After Davos: Magic and The Mountains

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

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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.

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World Leaders Call for Collaborative Leadership

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business

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By choosing collaboration for this year's forum theme, Davos is acknowledging that collaboration is also the key to solving the most pressing global issues.

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Lessons from Davos: Gates' Creative Capitalism can also Work at Home in the U.S.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business

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What a truly amazing thing it is that we are finally thinking globally, and that true globalization is now understood also as acting locally.

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Earth, Wind & Fire Raises Key Fed Funk Rate

Linda Keenan | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business

The move was preceded by the triumphantastic sounds of the EWF horn section heard around the rarefied precincts of the World Economic Forum.

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Face-off: Is Gates Right On Creative Capitalism?

CNET News | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the corporate and governmental bigwigs in attenda...

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Dish From Davos: Digitally Yours

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

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A Live Report From Davos

Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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Eric Hippeau, a Managing Partner of venture capital investor SoftBank capital, was recently interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerl...

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Bono Confesses Sins To 'Father' Al Gore

AFP | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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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.....

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Davos Does YouTube

AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

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DAVOS, Switzerland — The idea was simple: Job training centers should be as ubiquitous as gas stations, a man called freesouljah said in a video...

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Davos 2008: Bill Gates' Creative Capitalism and Muhammad Yunus' Social Business

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

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That Davos, the meeting place of the wealthy and powerful, should include themes spoken at conferences populated more by NGOs than executives means that the war has indeed been won.

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Gates Calls For "Creative Capitalism" At Davos

Wall Street Journal | Robert A. Guth | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

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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...

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Dish from Davos, Day 1

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business

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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.

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Non-Western Modernization Challenges Davos Man

Nathan Gardels | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

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The road to the new East may well have been through the West, but now that the East has arrived at its destination the future will be built on its own terms.

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