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Michael Dell Slapped Down By Putin At Davos: "We Don't Need Help. We Are Not Invalids" (VIDEO)

via Fortune | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Fortune's Peter Gumbel reports that Michael Dell was slapped down by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after offering Dell's help expanding IT in ...

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Girls Are on the Davos Agenda... Before It's Even Started

Maria Eitel | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Maria Eitel

I promised to blog about the girl effect from Davos, but I have to admit I didn't expect the buzz to surface before the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting had even started.

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Davos Notes: Blackstone's Schwarzman "Walking with His Head Still On"

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Arianna Huffington

At this evening's cocktail reception hosted by Yale, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman walked up, clearly in an upbeat mood (unusual for financial types at Davos this year). "You are walking with your head high," I remarked. "I'm walking with my head still on," he replied. READ MORE Davos Notes: Contrite Bankers, Overflow Interest in Philanthropy, Mistrusted Americans  The first questioner at this morning's panel, responding to my earlier assertion that Wall Street execs and bankers are acting like Marie Antoinettes, rose to his feet and, dripping with contrition, introduced himself by saying, "I am one of these financial guys..." It had the feel of a binge drinker who, after finally hitting bottom, shows up at an AA meeting and announces "...and I am an alcoholic." READ MORE

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Davos Notes: Contrite Bankers, Overflow Interest in Philanthropy, Mistrusted Americans

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Arianna Huffington

The first questioner at this morning's panel, responding to my earlier assertion that Wall Street execs and bankers are acting like Marie Antoinettes, rose to his feet and, dripping with contrition, introduced himself by saying, "I am one of these financial guys..." It had the feel of a binge drinker who, after finally hitting bottom, shows up at an AA meeting and announces "...and I am an alcoholic."

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By the People, for the People: Microfinance Offers the "Transformative Vision" Davos is Seeking

Alex Raksin | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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Alex Raksin

What began as a philanthropic movement to empower the working poor has evolved into a new class of social entrepreneurs who have shown that capitalism can generate significant returns in every sense of the word.

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Davos: A Better Question Than 'How Long Will the Crisis Last?'

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Jim Wallis

The question we should be asking is how this global economic crisis will change us -- all of us, in the way we think, decide things, and even do business.

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Davos: Officials And Leaders See No Quick Fixes To Global Economic Crisis

Financial Times | Chris Giles, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Gillian Tett in Davos and Catherine Belton in Moscow | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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Deep gloom marked the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, with economists, officials and business leaders seeing no quick fix...

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Mountain Redesign: What "Davos Man" Should Be Doing

Steven G. Brant | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

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Steven G. Brant

Capitalism as currently designed must be replaced, not "fixed"... not "rebooted." Our world's leaders must implement a new economic system appropriate to this totally new world.

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Davos09: A Crisis and Failure of Leadership

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Jeff Jarvis

The leaders of the world are in Davos. If the world is watching what happens here this week, it will be to hear solutions and see responsibility and accountability. I'd say that's not off to a great start, at least on the latter.

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Robert E. Diamond And Frits Seegers, Barclays Execs, Skip Davos

wsj.com | MARC CHAMPION, CARRICK MOLLENKAMP and SPENCER SWARTZ | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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DAVOS, Switzerland -- Two top executives from Barclays PLC of the U.K. became the latest prominent bankers to decide against going to global capitalis...

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Davos '09: Less Glitz, More Anxiety

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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Arianna Huffington

I'm on my way to Davos for this year's World Economic Forum. The theme of this year's conference is "Shaping the Post-Crisis World." Glad to hear the organizers are expecting there to be a "post" to this "crisis."

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Time of Crisis and Opportunity

Kofi Annan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Kofi Annan

At Davos, our business and political leaders must show they understand that our world has shifted for good and that we have to change with it or perish.

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Girls Take Center Stage At The World Economic Forum

Maria Eitel | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Maria Eitel

This financial crisis intensifies the need to invest existing resources more effectively, and a new and effective approach is right under your nose. It's called the girl effect.

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Watching And Participating In Davos

GlobalVoices | Juliana RincÃn Parra | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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The World Economic Forum's annual meeting of political and business leaders is taking place between January 23rd and January 27th in Davos, Switzerlan...

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Heard In Davos: CNBC Dispatches From World Economic Forum

CNBC | Becky Quick | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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s if it isn't cold enough here, the best and brightest of the worlds of business and government are packing up and heading to the Swiss Alps this week...

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Champagne On Ice As Sober Mood Engulfs Davos

The Guardian | Posted 02.27.2009 | 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...

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No Room For Has-Beens At Davos

Malaysian Insider | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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The titans of Wall Street no longer sit atop the magic mountain. Not long ago, at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, R...

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Davos Travel Guide: Where To Stay, Sleep and Eat

Portfolio | Anna Sussman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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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...

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Valerie Jarrett Will Represent Obama In Davos

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend of President Obama's and a senior adviser in the White House, will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switze...

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International Leaders Gather In Davos, Discuss Economic Crisis

Reuters | Emma Thomasson | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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Political leaders and central bankers will dominate this week's annual Davos forum as a chastened business elite is sidelined in the drive to reboot t...

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Dissecting The Global Economic Crisis In Davos

Portfolio | Megan Barnett | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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Last year, when JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon spoke at the opening press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he opened with this ...

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Klaus Schwab: The Dynamo Behind Behind Davos

Portfolio | Pranay Gupte | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, seems to have been around forever, although it started only in ...

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Davos Scales Back Glitz Amid Economic Downturn

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home

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GENEVA — No Bono, no Angelina. With capitalism in crisis, the 2,500 business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switze...

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How the Capital Market Failures and the Inability to Achieve Gender Equity are the Same

Laura Liswood | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

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Laura Liswood

My experience in both the financial world and the field of women's leadership allows me to recognize that both market failures and gender inequality stem from the same combination of elements.

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MySpace, Wall Street Journal Partner To Send MySpace User To Davos

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

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News Corp cousins MySpace and the Wall Street Journal have partnered in a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum later this mont...

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