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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...
Davos 2008
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Champagne On Ice As Sober Mood Engulfs Davos
The Guardian | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business
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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...
Davos Travel Guide: Where To Stay, Sleep and Eat
Portfolio | Anna Sussman | Posted 01.26.2009 | 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...
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.
World Leaders Call for Collaborative Leadership
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business
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.
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.
Earth, Wind & Fire Raises Key Fed Funk Rate
Linda Keenan | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business
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The move was preceded by the triumphantastic sounds of the EWF horn section heard around the rarefied precincts of the World Economic Forum.
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...
Dish From Davos: Digitally Yours
Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?
A Live Report From Davos
Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
Eric Hippeau, a Managing Partner of venture capital investor SoftBank capital, was recently interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerl...
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.....
Davos Does YouTube
AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 01.24.2008 | 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...
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.
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...
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.
Non-Western Modernization Challenges Davos Man
Nathan Gardels | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
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.
Make The World A Better Place: The Davos Question
Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.16.2008 | 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.
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