Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
first Indian store in New Delhi on 3 October 2019. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images) 38. Sunil Bharti Mittal at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on 26 January 2011. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images) 39. Akshay Naheta speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference
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the world – and perhaps himself – that his investment was no fluke. In the last week of January, after his star appearance at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Masa’s net worth was going up by $6bn a week. Doubts about the sustainability of SoftBank’s growth were lost in dot-com euphoria
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, the latter developing into a top Japanese financial services business engaged in banking, insurance and venture capital. In January 2003, Masa appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Once he had strutted on stage as Japan’s Bill Gates. Now he was a fallen idol, excluded from the conference’s official list of
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. Why not bring in Goldman Sachs to help on the financing? Masa wasn’t listening. He continued to peddle his new dream capital at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Holed up in a chalet in town, he received a stream of VIP visitors, including Ivanka Trump. That was how he absorbed information and
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Suisse, 306, 319 Cringely, Robert X., Accidental Empires, 163 Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, 55, 61, 63, 98 Daoist thought, 146 DataNet (magazine publishing company), 69 Davos, World Economic Forum, 2, 147, 148, 167, 294 Deadwood, South Dakota, 129–30 Democratic Party of Japan, 220 Deng, Wendi, 120–21 Deng Xiaoping, 144 Deutsche Bank, 124
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, 137–8, 157, 211, 244; new cold war protectionism, 5; Plaza Accord (22 September 1985), 69–70, 80; second oil price shock (1979), 48–9; World Economic Forum (Davos), 2, 147, 148, 167, 294 see also dot-com bubble (1998-2000) Edison, Thomas, 158 Eisner, Michael, 107* Elliott Management (Hedge fund), 295–8, 299
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(September 1978), 41–2; wish to step down as SoftBank CEO (March 2011), 218–19; Woodside property in Silicon Valley, 233, 245, 286, 324; at World Economic Forum (Davos), 2, 147, 148, 167, 294 see also SoftBank; Vision Fund Son, Mitsunori (father of Masa), 9–10, 11, 12, 67; birth of son Masa, 16
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
a clever concept! In $uperHubs, Sandra Navidi impresses with a masterful piece of both reporting and analysis.” —PROFESSOR KLAUS SCHWAB, Founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and author “How are we governed? By whom and how? These are the classic questions to which globalization and the financial markets have given a
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She has a unique set of perceptions of how certain elements of that world work. She describes examples taken from meetings in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum and traces relationships and their network effects on a broader basis. She draws many useful conclusions and provides terrific portraits of some of the major
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and macroeconomic events; their relationships; and their rarefied world of power, luxury, and privilege. $uperHubs takes you behind the scenes to their exclusive platforms: the World Economic Forum (WEF); the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and think tank gatherings, power lunches, charity events, and private parties. We learn how the superhubs
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was engaged in a flutter of activity, preparing for my most important trip of the year—to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. The exclusivity of the event and its high-profile attendees have shrouded “Davos,” as it has become known, in legend. Set in a small ski resort in the Swiss Alps
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most powerful global networks in the world. It is so vast and complex that it is almost difficult to fathom. Soros has attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos for the last two decades and, as a veteran, truly knows how to optimize his time in this surreal place. He is meticulously scheduled
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powerful people, and with their credibility they have the authority to convince those powerful people to join their cause. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, and George Soros are good examples. When they call, people line up, eager to join the cause whatever it may be. That convening power,
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them: money, information, and opportunities. CHAPTER 3 The Links That Connect Superhubs Money, Information, and Opportunities NETWORK NUCLEUS: LARRY FINK Every year during the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Financial Times and CNBC cohost the “Nightcap” at the majestic Belvédère Hotel. The reception is a must-attend for the captains of the various
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in Geneva, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF is most commonly associated with the Swiss ski resort of Davos, because of its renowned annual gathering, but the institution’s headquarters are located in an exclusive municipality of Geneva
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tight network of the world’s richest financiers with his enormously successful Robin Hood Foundation. Klaus Schwab has developed the ultimate superhub network with his World Economic Forum. George Soros, who has started many think tanks and charities, knows that the best strategy to achieve access and influence within a network is
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CONNECTIVITY Networks need platforms to form, expand, and strengthen. The financial elite follow a yearly migration pattern, flocking to invitation-only conclaves such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, the International Monetary Fund, the Bilderberg Group, the Aspen Institute, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, and many more. This tribal super circuit has
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of influence. Only superhubs have the “operating manual” on how to gain access and navigate these mechanisms. THE ANNUAL POWER CIRCUIT: DISPATCH FROM DAVOS The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is one of the most famous and effective of these platforms. Kicking off the meeting season in January, it unites the leaders of the
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at institutions and think tanks, who have generously included me over the last years. In particular, I’d like to thank Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum; too many people to thank individually at the IMF, but specifically Christine Lagarde and David Vannier; Paul Volcker, Jacob A. Frenkel, Jean-Claude Trichet,
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In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (New York: Random House, 2003), Kindle locations 171-73, Kindle edition. 16. “History,” The World Economic Forum, http://www.weforum.org/history. 17. Ray Dalio, Principles (self-published, 2011), http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf
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ft.com/content/96e3261c-0654-11e2-bd29-00144feabdc0. CHAPTER 6 1. World Economic Forum, “History,” http://www.weforum.org/history. 2. Neil Parmar, “Klaus Schwab: Inside the World Economic Forum,” Wall Street Jour nal, September 4, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/klaus-schwab-inside-the-world-economic-forum-1409843416. 3. Derek Thompson, “How Your Face Shapes Your
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://www.salon.com/2016/03/12/gordon_gecko_for_bernie_master_of_the_universe_endorses_sanders_for_president_partner. 19. “The Global Risk Report 2016,” World Economic Forum, 44, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/TheGlobalRisksReport2016.pdf. 20. Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Major Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next US President,” International Affairs 85(
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Program, 200 Herrhausen, Alfred, 136 Heterophily, 147 Hierarchy creditworthiness and, 51 opposition to change by, 227 purposes of, 225 social, 22 status and, 22 at World Economic Forum, 114 Highbridge Capital Management, 90 “High-Level Conference on the International Monetary System,” 38 Hildebrand, Philipp, 30, 39, 43, 121 Homogeneity description of, 78–79
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Pandit, Vikram, 23, 53, 57, 139–140, 203 Pao, Ellen, 196–203 Papandreou, George, 27 Paranoia, 71 Paris, 131–132 Parties private, 126–128 at World Economic Forum, 114–116 Patton, Arch, 87 Paulson & Co., 42, 88 Paulson, Hank AIG and, 183 Alan Greenspan and, 36 as U.S. treasury secretary, 36, 167
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background on, 93–96 Christine Lagarde and, 158 common good and, 225 at Davos, 116 digital technology and, 99 education of, 96 network power of, 95, 101 stakeholder principle of, 63 World Economic Forum and, 25, 93–96, 101. See also World Economic Forum Schwarzman, Steve background on, 59–62 Blackstone Group, xxvii, 27, 30, 53,
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given by, 126–127 reflexivity theory, 63 reputation of, 16 residences of, 90, 126–128 at Sitaras Fitness, 125 wedding to Tamiko Bolton, 27 at World Economic Forum in Davos, 15, 21 Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, 62 Soros Fund Management, 107 South Sudan, 194 Soviet Union, 226 Spain, 177
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Work hours, 134 Workalcoholics, 132, 134 Work-family life imbalance, 135–136, 157 Workouts, 125–126 World Bank, 27, 106, 185, 187 World Economic Forum attendees of, 113–114 at Davos. See Davos description of, xxiv, 1, 3, 25, 94, 112 dinners at, 115 Geneva headquarters of, 93–94 Global Risk Report, 212 hierarchy at
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
, Prime Minister of the Netherlands STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM A GLOBAL ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR PROGRESS, PEOPLE AND PLANET KLAUS SCHWAB with Peter Vanham Copyright © 2021 by World Economic Forum. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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me firsthand the value of education, collaboration, and the stakeholder principle About the Authors Professor Klaus Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. In 1971, he first published Modern Enterprise Management in Mechanical Engineering. In the book, he argues that a company must serve not only shareholders
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of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2018, with Nicholas Davis), and COVID-19: The Great Reset (2020, with Thierry Malleret). Alongside his leadership of the World Economic Forum, Schwab also started the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with his wife, Hilde (1998), The Forum of Young Global Leaders (2006), and the Global Shapers
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pressing global social, economic, and environmental issues. And so, in 1971, I organized the first meeting of the European Management Forum (the forerunner of the World Economic Forum) there, with guests such as Harvard Business School Dean George Pierce Baker, Columbia University Professor Barbara Ward, IBM President Jacques Maisonrouge, and several members of
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United States came to a standstill. As a sign of solidarity, the following January we organized our Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York—the first it was held outside Davos. After the dot-com crash and 9/11, the Western economies entered a recession. For a while, the path of
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Shaping History, 1971–2020,” p.16 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_A_Partner_in_Shaping_History.pdf. 19 The Davos Manifesto, 1973, World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-1973-a-code-of-ethics-for-business-leaders/. 20 “A Friedman Doctrine—The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase
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utterly unsustainable, notwithstanding the hopeful signs in environmental Kuznets curves. The World Economic Forum first raised awareness on this emerging problem in 1973. Then, Aurelio Peccei, who was the president of the Club of Rome, a think tank, gave a speech in Davos about his famous study on “The Limits to Growth.” The publication
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Co-operation and Development, https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT. 57 “Global Social Mobility Index 2020: Why Economies Benefit from Fixing Inequality,” World Economic Forum, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index-2020-why-economies-benefit-from-fixing-inequality. 58 “Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations
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flame-wars-rage. 86 “Our house is still on fire and you’re fuelling the flames, World Economic Forum Agenda, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/greta-speech-our-house-is-still-on-fire-davos-2020/. 3 The Rise of Asia The view from the Sham Chun River in Southern China
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coast. Cities such as Dalian, close to Korea and Japan, and Tianjin, the main port city serving Beijing (and both now home to the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos meetings) as well as Fuzhou, home to many Chinese emigrants to Singapore, were added in 1984. In 1990, Shanghai's Pudong district was added
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end, and the pledge to have “Never Again War” was made. Fifty years also have passed since the first World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. For much of its history, the so-called Davos Manifesto participants approved in 1973 was the main inspiration for meeting. In the Manifesto, business leaders promised to look after
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2 IDN Times, IDN Media, consulted October 2020, https://www.idn.media/products/idntimes. 3 The following text has been adapted and updated from the World Economic Forum Agenda article by Peter Vanham, “Why Indonesians Fight like Avengers for Globalization,” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/why-indonesians-fight-like-avengers-for
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Chad Syverson, MIT Sloan Management Review, January 2018, https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/unpacking-the-ai-productivity-paradox/. 60 Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution. 61 Interview with Tim Wu by Peter Vanham, New York, October 2019. 62 The
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of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL),9 a small group of top political and business leaders that meets every year at the World Economic Forum. Starting in the late 1990s, the Annual Meeting in Davos also became a safe space for business and civil society to meet, even as public animosity between environmental activists and
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carbon-light future as well, attracted by the improving affordability of cleantech versus fossil-fuel technologies. In this regard, the World Economic Forum is taking action as well. Ahead of our Annual Meeting in Davos in 2020, Brian Moynihan, chair of the international business council, Feike Sybesma, co-chair of the Alliance of CEO
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ownership. All these evolutions were underway well before the COVID crisis. Then, forced lockdowns of cities brought about a mini revolution in mobility. As World Economic Forum urban mobility specialist Sandra Caballero and Urban Radar CEO Philippe Rapin wrote during the crisis:43 “After COVID-19 lockdowns, roads emptied and transit agencies
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, we'll need to achieve similar results despite being in an economy that is fully up and running again. Notes 1 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found in under the title, “Our house is on fire’: Greta
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climate-leaders. 49 “The Net-Zero Challenge: Fast-Forward to Decisive Climate Action,” World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group, January 2020, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Net_Zero_Challenge.pdf. 50 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found under
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cap-and-trade scheme for companies, applies the same principle as well. The groundwork for both plans was prepared in part at meetings of the World Economic Forum, and they exemplify how stakeholder capitalism can work if it adheres to the subsidiarity principle. A similar logic applies to matters of technology governance,
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additional objectives we should optimize for in the next decade. For countries that wish to go beyond GDP, a number of alternatives already exist. The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, and its Inclusive Development Index, for example, track a broad variety of environmental, social, and governance indicators, beyond the economic
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on a number of key well-being indicators for their citizens. (We explore some examples of these metrics later in this chapter.) Interestingly, the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Report shows that countries that optimize for sustainable and inclusive development alongside economic competitiveness often end up as the most competitive as well
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Subsidiarity,” Cambridge Dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/subsidiarity. 11 “Chart of the Day: These Countries Create Most of the World's CO2 Emissions,” World Economic Forum, June 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-create-most-of-the-world-s-co2-emissions/. 12 “Connotations
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/how-we-can-end-short-termism-by-keeping-score/. 26 “Better Life Index,” OECD, http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111. 27 The Global Competitiveness Report 2019, World Economic Forum, p. 27, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf. 28 Ibidem. 29 “What Is Natural Capital?” World Forum on Natural Capital, https://naturalcapitalforum.
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org/. 32 “Changing how we measure economic progress, The Wealth Project, https://www.wealth-economics.org/about/. 33 “Davos Manifesto 2020,” Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum, December 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/. 34 And, I should add, these
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corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans. 35 “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: World's Largest Companies Support Developing Core Set of Universal ESG Disclosures,” World Economic Forum, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/01/measuring-stakeholder-capitalism-world-s-largest-companies-support-developing-core-set-of-universal-esg-disclosures/. 36
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of the problem that the global economy was facing. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, and like Snabe, a member of the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees, had said as much at Davos in 2018. “I mentioned tech in the same breath as credit default swaps, sugar, cigarettes—harmful products that companies had
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com/2018/09/meet-the-first-african-pakistani-lawmaker/. 66 “Black Lives Matter—for Pakistan's Sheedi Community Too,” Zahra Bhaiwala, Neekta Hamidi, Sikander Bizenjo, World Economic Forum Agenda, August 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/black-lives-matter-for-pakistans-sheedi-community-too/. Conclusion: The Road to Stakeholder Capitalism In
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the US, Germany and the UK.1 Many of them resulted from multinational collaboration involving both the public and the private sectors. Companies approached the World Economic Forum's COVID Taskforce with offers of hygiene products, ventilators, containers, funding to help the emergency health response. There was also a strong desire for
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time for our January 2021 Davos Agenda Week. And Christina Verigan masterfully edited the book, providing both content and stylistic feedback that made the book what it is as you read it. In identifying and defining the stakeholder model, I received help from constituents of the World Economic Forum from all over the world
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Group, New York, US Diane Coyle, Director, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Dominic Waughray, Managing Director, Centre for Global Public Goods, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Geert Noels, Chief Executive Officer, Econopolis, Antwerp, Belgium Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology
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Professor of Law, Columbia University, New York, US Liwei Wang, Senior Writer, Caixin Media, Beijing, China Maha Eltobgy, Head of Shaping the Future of Investing, World Economic Forum, New York, US Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland Min Zhu, Chairman, National Institute of Financial Research, Beijing, China Nicholas
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Løffmann, Tillidsrepræsentant, MAN Energy Solutions, Copenhagen, Denmark Roland Duchatelet, Founder, Melexis, Sint-Truiden, Belgium Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, Centre for the New Economy and Society, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Sean Cleary, Executive Chair, FutureWorld Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa Seniat Sorsa, Local General Manager, Domestic Affairs, Everest, Awasa, Ethiopia Susan Lund, Partner
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Darvas, Zsolt, 36, 37, 112, 113 “Data as a property right” initiative, 239 Data Dividend Project, 239 Davos Manifesto (1973), 13–14, 88, 213 Davos Manifesto (2020), 191–192, 213 Davos meetings. See World Economic Forum Annual Meetings Davos (Switzerland), 11 Deaton, Angus, 42 Debt China's increased total debt–to–GDP ratio, 62 high-quality vs
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5 See also European Union (EU); specific country European Court of Justice, 196–197 European Economic Community (later European Union), 76 European Management Forum (later World Economic Forum), 11, 15 European Observatory of Working Life, 17 European Parliament minimum rights rules (2019), 243 European People's Party (EPP), 83–84 European Union (EU
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(California), 241 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Twain and Warner), 133 Gini coefficient of China/India, 37fig–38, 226 Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum), 189, 190 Global debt population pyramid and repayment of, 30 problem of rising, 28–31 what is included in, 28 Global economic growth ASEAN nations
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third wave (20th century), 105–106 Silk Road and spice routes, 99–102 Global population. See Population Global Risks annual reports (WEF), 52 Global Shapers (World Economic Forum), 245, 246 Global Social Mobility index (2020), 43–44 Global Urban Development report, 124 Global warming increasing evidence and actions regarding, 51–52 Intergovernmental Panel
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(2000, 2017–2019), 84fig I IBM, 139 Iceland, 224 IDN Media (Indonesia), 94–95, 114 IDN Media HQ (Jakarta, Indonesia), 95 Inclusive Development Index (World Economic Forum), 189, 190 Income equality Denmark's success with, 119, 186 EPI plotting union membership against, 186 stakeholder government role in enabling, 178–179, 225 union
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149 Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) report [2019], 51 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now World Bank), 6 International Business Council (World Economic Forum), 193, 214, 249 International communities aim to preserve peace, 179 civil society and the, 237–238 as key stakeholders, 178 weakening of institutions of, 194
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19 World Economic Outlook (2020) on ASEAN economies, 65–66 Internet “digital divide” and, 227 improving digital connectivity to, 225, 227–228, 232 Internet Agenda (World Economic Forum), 246 Internet Explorer, 139 Internet of Things, 18, 72, 161 InterNorth (US), 217, 218 Ireland, 194 Iron Curtain, 77, 80 Israel OPEC members in opposition
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in Africa and South Asia (2018), 44 GDP measure used by, 24 on Indonesia's prudent economic management, 98 lack of representation evidenced in, 197 World Economic Forum advocating long-term perspective by companies, 250 Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (San Francisco, 2017) of the, 144 CEO Climate Leaders group at
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128 on pension savings gap, 32–33 presentation on societal unrest to, 85–86 Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics initiative, 193, 214–215, 249, 250–251 World Economic Forum Annual Meetings (Davos) Annual Meeting in New York (2002), 17–18 Benioff's comments on need to shift toward stakeholder model, 201 the first European Management Forum
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
, Prime Minister of the Netherlands STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM A GLOBAL ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR PROGRESS, PEOPLE AND PLANET KLAUS SCHWAB with Peter Vanham Copyright © 2021 by World Economic Forum. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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me firsthand the value of education, collaboration, and the stakeholder principle About the Authors Professor Klaus Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. In 1971, he first published Modern Enterprise Management in Mechanical Engineering. In the book, he argues that a company must serve not only shareholders
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of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2018, with Nicholas Davis), and COVID-19: The Great Reset (2020, with Thierry Malleret). Alongside his leadership of the World Economic Forum, Schwab also started the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with his wife, Hilde (1998), The Forum of Young Global Leaders (2006), and the Global Shapers
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pressing global social, economic, and environmental issues. And so, in 1971, I organized the first meeting of the European Management Forum (the forerunner of the World Economic Forum) there, with guests such as Harvard Business School Dean George Pierce Baker, Columbia University Professor Barbara Ward, IBM President Jacques Maisonrouge, and several members of
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United States came to a standstill. As a sign of solidarity, the following January we organized our Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York—the first it was held outside Davos. After the dot-com crash and 9/11, the Western economies entered a recession. For a while, the path of
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Shaping History, 1971–2020,” p.16 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_A_Partner_in_Shaping_History.pdf. 19 The Davos Manifesto, 1973, World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-1973-a-code-of-ethics-for-business-leaders/. 20 “A Friedman Doctrine—The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase
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utterly unsustainable, notwithstanding the hopeful signs in environmental Kuznets curves. The World Economic Forum first raised awareness on this emerging problem in 1973. Then, Aurelio Peccei, who was the president of the Club of Rome, a think tank, gave a speech in Davos about his famous study on “The Limits to Growth.” The publication
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Co-operation and Development, https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT. 57 “Global Social Mobility Index 2020: Why Economies Benefit from Fixing Inequality,” World Economic Forum, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index-2020-why-economies-benefit-from-fixing-inequality. 58 “Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations
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flame-wars-rage. 86 “Our house is still on fire and you’re fuelling the flames, World Economic Forum Agenda, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/greta-speech-our-house-is-still-on-fire-davos-2020/. 3 The Rise of Asia The view from the Sham Chun River in Southern China
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coast. Cities such as Dalian, close to Korea and Japan, and Tianjin, the main port city serving Beijing (and both now home to the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos meetings) as well as Fuzhou, home to many Chinese emigrants to Singapore, were added in 1984. In 1990, Shanghai's Pudong district was added
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end, and the pledge to have “Never Again War” was made. Fifty years also have passed since the first World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. For much of its history, the so-called Davos Manifesto participants approved in 1973 was the main inspiration for meeting. In the Manifesto, business leaders promised to look after
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2 IDN Times, IDN Media, consulted October 2020, https://www.idn.media/products/idntimes. 3 The following text has been adapted and updated from the World Economic Forum Agenda article by Peter Vanham, “Why Indonesians Fight like Avengers for Globalization,” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/why-indonesians-fight-like-avengers-for
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Chad Syverson, MIT Sloan Management Review, January 2018, https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/unpacking-the-ai-productivity-paradox/. 60 Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution. 61 Interview with Tim Wu by Peter Vanham, New York, October 2019. 62 The
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of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL),9 a small group of top political and business leaders that meets every year at the World Economic Forum. Starting in the late 1990s, the Annual Meeting in Davos also became a safe space for business and civil society to meet, even as public animosity between environmental activists and
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carbon-light future as well, attracted by the improving affordability of cleantech versus fossil-fuel technologies. In this regard, the World Economic Forum is taking action as well. Ahead of our Annual Meeting in Davos in 2020, Brian Moynihan, chair of the international business council, Feike Sybesma, co-chair of the Alliance of CEO
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ownership. All these evolutions were underway well before the COVID crisis. Then, forced lockdowns of cities brought about a mini revolution in mobility. As World Economic Forum urban mobility specialist Sandra Caballero and Urban Radar CEO Philippe Rapin wrote during the crisis:43 “After COVID-19 lockdowns, roads emptied and transit agencies
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, we'll need to achieve similar results despite being in an economy that is fully up and running again. Notes 1 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found in under the title, “Our house is on fire’: Greta
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climate-leaders. 49 “The Net-Zero Challenge: Fast-Forward to Decisive Climate Action,” World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group, January 2020, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Net_Zero_Challenge.pdf. 50 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found under
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cap-and-trade scheme for companies, applies the same principle as well. The groundwork for both plans was prepared in part at meetings of the World Economic Forum, and they exemplify how stakeholder capitalism can work if it adheres to the subsidiarity principle. A similar logic applies to matters of technology governance,
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additional objectives we should optimize for in the next decade. For countries that wish to go beyond GDP, a number of alternatives already exist. The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, and its Inclusive Development Index, for example, track a broad variety of environmental, social, and governance indicators, beyond the economic
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on a number of key well-being indicators for their citizens. (We explore some examples of these metrics later in this chapter.) Interestingly, the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Report shows that countries that optimize for sustainable and inclusive development alongside economic competitiveness often end up as the most competitive as well
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Subsidiarity,” Cambridge Dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/subsidiarity. 11 “Chart of the Day: These Countries Create Most of the World's CO2 Emissions,” World Economic Forum, June 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-create-most-of-the-world-s-co2-emissions/. 12 “Connotations
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/how-we-can-end-short-termism-by-keeping-score/. 26 “Better Life Index,” OECD, http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111. 27 The Global Competitiveness Report 2019, World Economic Forum, p. 27, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf. 28 Ibidem. 29 “What Is Natural Capital?” World Forum on Natural Capital, https://naturalcapitalforum.
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org/. 32 “Changing how we measure economic progress, The Wealth Project, https://www.wealth-economics.org/about/. 33 “Davos Manifesto 2020,” Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum, December 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/. 34 And, I should add, these
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corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans. 35 “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: World's Largest Companies Support Developing Core Set of Universal ESG Disclosures,” World Economic Forum, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/01/measuring-stakeholder-capitalism-world-s-largest-companies-support-developing-core-set-of-universal-esg-disclosures/. 36
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of the problem that the global economy was facing. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, and like Snabe, a member of the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees, had said as much at Davos in 2018. “I mentioned tech in the same breath as credit default swaps, sugar, cigarettes—harmful products that companies had
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com/2018/09/meet-the-first-african-pakistani-lawmaker/. 66 “Black Lives Matter—for Pakistan's Sheedi Community Too,” Zahra Bhaiwala, Neekta Hamidi, Sikander Bizenjo, World Economic Forum Agenda, August 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/black-lives-matter-for-pakistans-sheedi-community-too/. Conclusion: The Road to Stakeholder Capitalism In
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the US, Germany and the UK.1 Many of them resulted from multinational collaboration involving both the public and the private sectors. Companies approached the World Economic Forum's COVID Taskforce with offers of hygiene products, ventilators, containers, funding to help the emergency health response. There was also a strong desire for
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time for our January 2021 Davos Agenda Week. And Christina Verigan masterfully edited the book, providing both content and stylistic feedback that made the book what it is as you read it. In identifying and defining the stakeholder model, I received help from constituents of the World Economic Forum from all over the world
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Group, New York, US Diane Coyle, Director, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Dominic Waughray, Managing Director, Centre for Global Public Goods, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Geert Noels, Chief Executive Officer, Econopolis, Antwerp, Belgium Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology
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Professor of Law, Columbia University, New York, US Liwei Wang, Senior Writer, Caixin Media, Beijing, China Maha Eltobgy, Head of Shaping the Future of Investing, World Economic Forum, New York, US Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland Min Zhu, Chairman, National Institute of Financial Research, Beijing, China Nicholas
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Løffmann, Tillidsrepræsentant, MAN Energy Solutions, Copenhagen, Denmark Roland Duchatelet, Founder, Melexis, Sint-Truiden, Belgium Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, Centre for the New Economy and Society, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Sean Cleary, Executive Chair, FutureWorld Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa Seniat Sorsa, Local General Manager, Domestic Affairs, Everest, Awasa, Ethiopia Susan Lund, Partner
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Darvas, Zsolt, 36, 37, 112, 113 “Data as a property right” initiative, 239 Data Dividend Project, 239 Davos Manifesto (1973), 13–14, 88, 213 Davos Manifesto (2020), 191–192, 213 Davos meetings. See World Economic Forum Annual Meetings Davos (Switzerland), 11 Deaton, Angus, 42 Debt China's increased total debt–to–GDP ratio, 62 high-quality vs
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5 See also European Union (EU); specific country European Court of Justice, 196–197 European Economic Community (later European Union), 76 European Management Forum (later World Economic Forum), 11, 15 European Observatory of Working Life, 17 European Parliament minimum rights rules (2019), 243 European People's Party (EPP), 83–84 European Union (EU
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(California), 241 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Twain and Warner), 133 Gini coefficient of China/India, 37fig–38, 226 Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum), 189, 190 Global debt population pyramid and repayment of, 30 problem of rising, 28–31 what is included in, 28 Global economic growth ASEAN nations
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third wave (20th century), 105–106 Silk Road and spice routes, 99–102 Global population. See Population Global Risks annual reports (WEF), 52 Global Shapers (World Economic Forum), 245, 246 Global Social Mobility index (2020), 43–44 Global Urban Development report, 124 Global warming increasing evidence and actions regarding, 51–52 Intergovernmental Panel
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(2000, 2017–2019), 84fig I IBM, 139 Iceland, 224 IDN Media (Indonesia), 94–95, 114 IDN Media HQ (Jakarta, Indonesia), 95 Inclusive Development Index (World Economic Forum), 189, 190 Income equality Denmark's success with, 119, 186 EPI plotting union membership against, 186 stakeholder government role in enabling, 178–179, 225 union
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149 Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) report [2019], 51 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now World Bank), 6 International Business Council (World Economic Forum), 193, 214, 249 International communities aim to preserve peace, 179 civil society and the, 237–238 as key stakeholders, 178 weakening of institutions of, 194
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19 World Economic Outlook (2020) on ASEAN economies, 65–66 Internet “digital divide” and, 227 improving digital connectivity to, 225, 227–228, 232 Internet Agenda (World Economic Forum), 246 Internet Explorer, 139 Internet of Things, 18, 72, 161 InterNorth (US), 217, 218 Ireland, 194 Iron Curtain, 77, 80 Israel OPEC members in opposition
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in Africa and South Asia (2018), 44 GDP measure used by, 24 on Indonesia's prudent economic management, 98 lack of representation evidenced in, 197 World Economic Forum advocating long-term perspective by companies, 250 Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (San Francisco, 2017) of the, 144 CEO Climate Leaders group at
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128 on pension savings gap, 32–33 presentation on societal unrest to, 85–86 Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics initiative, 193, 214–215, 249, 250–251 World Economic Forum Annual Meetings (Davos) Annual Meeting in New York (2002), 17–18 Benioff's comments on need to shift toward stakeholder model, 201 the first European Management Forum
Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton · 29 Sep 2008 · 401pp · 115,959 words
. Another public-private partnership that Gates says has been “super-successful” is the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI). Launched in 2000 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, GAVI brings together governments of rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, research institutes, NGOs, and other foundations
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are “purpose driven.” Warren, whose book, The Purpose Driven Life, has sold over twenty-five million copies, has become a regular participant in the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative, where he rubs shoulders with other philanthrocapitalists and urges them to bring down the “five global goliaths”: spiritual emptiness, egocentric
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, College Summit, and Mental Disability Rights International. Even more selective is the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, endowed by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, and his wife, Hilde, in 1998. Once a year, the foundation has brought together one hundred or so of the leading social entrepreneurs from around
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insights, train them, and honor their achievements. A handful of the best have been chosen to join with the world’s wealthy elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where they can showcase their work and, they hope, secure the financial backing and connections they need to grow. Today, courses in social enterprise
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’s reputation so that it can more easily recruit the best talent. In 2008, in a speech to fellow business leaders and philanthrocapitalists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates called this new approach “creative capitalism,” which he says is an attempt to “stretch the reach of market forces so that more
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suit. Both Google guys are active participants in the elite global gatherings where philanthrocapitalists rub shoulders with politicians and other influential folks. These include the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED), a conference at which luminaries such as Bill Clinton and Bono are awarded prizes
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the public’s encouragement. This enlightened self-interest case for business to engage fully in society was set out by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, in the January-February 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs. Especially since anticapitalist protesters started to target the WEF’s annual meetings in the 1990s, Schwab
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, a framework of ten core principles to guide business behavior in areas such as human rights, the environment, corruption, and labor standards. Announced at the World Economic Forum in 1999, and officially launched in 2000, it has since been adopted by over four thousand companies in 120 countries (see “Corporate Social Responsibility Goes
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of philanthrocapitalism, but there are surely no stranger bedfellows than wealthy businesspeople and popular celebrities. Bono and Gates first met early in 2002 at the World Economic Forum—which that year, in an act of post-9/11 solidarity, was held in New York. Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, had been urging a
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-childhood development, and getting technology into schools. The presence of royalty, including Queen Rania, and a growing number of other celebrities at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos is perhaps the strongest proof that celanthropy should be taken seriously. Yet the WEF has not found the inclusion of celebrities to be
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will change, now that Hillary’s presidential ambitions have been thwarted, at least this time round. Some who attend the CGI meeting think that the World Economic Forum in Davos is a more neutral and serious venue for bringing together philanthropists, business leaders, politicians, and social entrepreneurs to address society’s big challenges—though
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is certainly not your father’s idea of the old boy network. The big, high-profile off-line networking events are the CGI and the World Economic Forum in Davos. But many philanthropists are joining one or more of the growing number of smaller networking organizations that champion giving, allow givers to share experiences
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Trilateral Commission—whose purpose is to foster better dialogue between the leaders of Asia, Europe, and America.) Above all, conspiracy theorists are obsessed with the World Economic Forum held in Davos in the Swiss Alps. The annual meeting each January is a favorite target of antiglobalization protesters who think that inside the security ring
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these protests, and the creation of the rival World Social Forum, in recent years the agenda at Davos has broadened from economic growth and trade to address the big social challenges facing the world, such as development, poverty, and climate change. Whilst Kent
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21st Century Trust held a particularly useful conference on the new philanthropy in April 2007. Events and seminars such as those on philanthropy at the World Economic Forum, the UBS Philanthropy Forum, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Schwab Foundation annual summits, the annual meetings of the Association of Charitable Trusts
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
the years prior to 2017 had been anything but calm. Chapter 25 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME On January 17, 2017, as the World Economic Forum assembled at Davos to consider the implications of Brexit and Trump, China’s President Xi Jinping stepped to the rostrum to deliver the opening plenary. It was
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, 204. CHAPTER 25: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 1. N. Barkin and E. Piper, “In Davos, Xi Makes Case for Chinese Leadership Role,” Reuters, January 17, 2017. 2. “President Xi’s Speech to Davos in Full,” World Economic Forum, January 17, 2017. 3. E. Wong and C. Buckley, “Stock Market Plunge in China Dents
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns · 16 Jan 2024 · 327pp · 110,234 words
that governments must increase taxes on the richest. In January 2023, about two hundred multimillionaires signed a letter addressed to the attendees of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos to argue for higher taxation on the rich. Bill Gates has called for the same on multiple occasions. Seventeen super-rich people, including
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. We urgently need international cooperation so that we can close tax havens and halt other practices that permit the accumulation of dirty money. If the World Economic Forum is serious about its mission to make the world a better place, its members should discuss it, too. But they won’t, of course: they
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Goodman calls them the Davos Men. And those men (and, here and there, the odd woman) have built up a very powerful network that aims to advance a pro-business agenda in a global setting. They are named after the picturesque town in the Swiss Alps where the World Economic Forum (WEF) holds its
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reasons why limitarianism is, on balance, better for the super-rich too. * * * * In January 2020, a letter was sent to the participants at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. It was signed by 121 millionaires and billionaires. They argued that there are two kinds of wealthy people, “those who prefer taxes and those
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-rich-supercharge-zero-emission-aviation/, and Jasper Faber and Sander Raphaël, “CO2 Emissions from Private Flights to the World Economic Forum,” CE Delft, February 2023, cedelft.eu/publications/co2-emissions-from-private-flights-to-the-world-economic-forum/. 18. The political philosopher Catriona McKinnon argues that those behind climate denialism, and those not acting on climate
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43–5 Crimean Peninsula, annexation of (2014) 51 crowdfunding 178 crowding out effect 176 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly 196 Cyprus 78 Davis, Abigail 10 Davos Men 91–3. See also World Economic Forum (WEF) declining marginal value of money 146, 184 degrowth 213 democracy collective decision-making and 74–5 commodification of citizenship 77–80 corruption
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neoliberalism and 159, 162 philanthropy and 18, 164, 166 poverty 36, 92 “profits before people” philosophy and 57 tax and 35, 60, 62, 70, 161 World Economic Forum and 42 envy xiii, xx–xxii equality awareness of inequality levels xii, 8, 190, 204–6 capitalism and see capitalism class and 31–2 climate
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44 working class 29, 31–32, 35, 83, 83–4, 164, 217–18 World Bank 18, 21 World Bank Economic Review 21 World Economic Forum (WEF) xxi, 42, 91 Annual Meeting, Davos xxi–xxiii, 17, 91–3, 103, 188 World Health Organization (WHO) xv Zaïre 48–9 Zara 136 Zoomkawala, Huzaifa 22–3, 136
What Would Google Do?
by Jeff Jarvis · 15 Feb 2009 · 299pp · 91,839 words
you’re lucky. New Society Elegant organization Elegant organization I sat, dumbfounded, in an audience of executives at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum International Media Council in Davos, Switzerland, as the head of a powerful news organization begged young Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, for his secret. Please, the publisher beseeched
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a fair amount—61 percent—but that was down 20 points since 2003. Trust is—no surprise—an issue with political leaders. In 2007 the World Economic Forum released a Gallup Voice of the People survey reporting that globally, 43 percent of citizens said political leaders are dishonest; 37 percent said they have
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few hundred million dollars a year. Innovation happens in spite of the structure of organizations. In 2008, I joined a seminar on innovation at the World Economic Forum at Davos. It was a highly formatted hour, with the entire room sitting in a circle (making the moderator dizzy). They had us write down the
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. “Our primary goal is not to fix the world,” Larry Page has said. But wouldn’t that be a nice fringe benefit? At the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos in 2008, I attended a forum at which Google’s founders presented their energy vision and I came away with a sense of how
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passengers won’t give their value if they are not valued, if they are still treated as cattle and criminals. At a party at the World Economic Forum at Davos, when I met one of the Google cofounders, I mentioned that I was exploring the idea of what an airline would be like if
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, Andrew Tyndall, Rick Segal, Bonnie Arnold, Tim O’Reilly, Henry Copeland, Marcel Reichert, Stephanie Czerny, Jochen Wegner, Hubert Burda, Wolfgang Blau, Claudia Gonzalez Gisiger, the World Economic Forum, the Aspen Institute, Lionel Menchaca, Richard@Dell, Michael Dell, and Dell itself. Note that I am not thanking Google. I am grateful for Google’s
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–83 wireless spectrum, 166 The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki), 88 The Witch of Portobello (Coelho), 142–43 WNYC, 128 Wojcicki, Anne, 205 Wolf, Maryanne, 235 World Economic Forum, 48, 113 Wyman, Bob, 211 Yahoo, 5, 36, 58 China and, 99–100 communities and, 50 Yang, Jerry, 36 Y Combinator, 193 youth, 191–94
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.com. He also writes the new media column for the Guardian in London. He was named one of 100 worldwide media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2007 and 2008, and he was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly. He is on the faculty of the City University of
What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale · 23 May 2011 · 397pp · 112,034 words
director of the central bank of Botswana, the founder of a Mexican fund management group, economic analysts in Hong Kong, a former director of the Davos World Economic Forum, and many other distinguished authors. There are certain issues that loom large in the intermediate-term outlook. Will the recovery in US final demand be
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of the most prominent brokers in Mexico. In January 1990, following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Salinas realized at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting that he would have to compete with the newly liberated countries of Eastern Europe. Salinas ordered the beginning of negotiations toward a North
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INVESTMENT DECISION-MAKING Thierry Malleret What Was the Investment World’s Mindset before the Recent Crash? On four occasions while I was working at the World Economic Forum in 2006, I gathered a group of economists, prominent investment bankers, and insurers to brainstorm about the impending risks that could derail the “Goldilocks scenario
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finance the trade deficit. CUSTOMS UNION: A free trade area that also establishes a common tariff and other trade policies with nonmember countries. DAVOS: Annual meeting held by the World Economic Forum that gathers politicians, business leaders, economists, and other luminaries to discuss key issues facing the global economy. DEBT DEFLATION: Economic theory originally
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GDP. GLASNOST: Soviet policy that allowed open discussion of political and social issues and increased dissemination of news stories. GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT: Report by the World Economic Forum that is derived from the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), which is based on twelve pillars of competitiveness. It provides a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness
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of the purchaser. WINDFALL PROFITS TAX: A tax on a company or industry’s profits in the wake of a sudden, dramatic spike in profitability. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: An independent, international organization that aims for a world-class corporate governance system. It believes that economic progress without social development is not sustainable and
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tailor-made intelligence to global chief executives and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Until March 2007, Dr. Mallevet headed the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum, a network that brings together top-end opinion and policymakers, CEOs, and academics to look at how global issues affect business and society in the
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History
by Ben Mezrich · 26 May 2015 · 222pp · 68,089 words
woman like Marina, but a million dollars wasn’t going to satisfy a man like Boris Berezovsky for very long. CHAPTER ELEVEN February 1996, World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland TWO MONTHS BEFORE his fiftieth birthday, and Boris Berezovsky could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times he had
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richest men in the world—and in many ways a personal idol of Berezovsky’s—was exactly the sort of man you came to the World Economic Forum at Davos to meet. To Berezovsky, he represented everything laudable about the West; Soros’s opinions informed Berezovsky of the Western way of thinking about markets
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, 87, 96–97, 116, 148, 175, 181, 185, 192, 195, 198, 200, 208–9, 234, 241, 258 wet work of, 15–16 womanizing of, 62 World Economic Forum and, 79–82, 84–85 Yeltsin’s relationship with, 23, 31–32, 61, 91, 96, 110, 122, 128, 131 Yeltsin’s resignation and, 140–41
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, 128 Kuntsevo meeting of, 4–6 Putin and, 6–7, 144–48, 159, 163, 173 security for, 59 violence and, 5 wealth of, 4–7 World Economic Forum and, 81, 84 ORT (Russian Public Television): Abramovich’s acquisition of, 183–87, 192, 200, 236, 245, 248–49 advertising on, 53–55, 58–60
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, 141, 145 Sibneft and, 72–73, 75–76 and symbolism of Ladas, 13 violence and crime in, 5, 15–17, 19–25, 60, 63–64 World Economic Forum and, 81–82 Russian Public Television, see ORT S Saakashvili, Mikheil, 209 St. Petersburg, 107–9, 125, 143, 149, 203 Seven Bankers, 84 Shakespeare, William
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, 222–23 Litvinenko’s poisoning and, 225–27 Unity Party, 132–35, 141, 145 V Voloshin, Alexander, 157, 160–63 voucher program, 33–34 W World Economic Forum, 79–82, 84–86 Oligarchs and, 81, 84 Y Yelena (Berezovsky’s girlfriend), 179–83 and Berezovsky’s suit against Abramovich, 247, 250 Yeltsin, Boris
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, 183 Presidential Club and, 28, 85 Putin and, 107, 109, 133, 140–41 resignation of, 138–41 retirement of, 147 Sibneft and, 72, 87, 117 World Economic Forum and, 81–82, 84 Yeltsin, Tatiana, 31, 35, 83–84, 90–91, 97, 127–28, 147 new millennium and, 134–35 Putin and, 130, 134
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