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The theme of the World Economic Forum Annual
Meeting 2007 – Shaping the Global Agenda: The Shifting Power Equation - underscored the particular challenge of this period of rapid globalization. |
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| Introduction |
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Preface
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting again offered participants – both those in Davos and those joining us through the Internet – the opportunity to examine the many critical forces affecting... |
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Economics: New Drivers
Since the opening of China and the fall of the Soviet bloc, the ideological shackles of the cold war have been cast aside, reuniting the world's biggest markets and ushering in a gilded age of growth... |
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Geopolitics: The Need for Fresh Mandates
The fickle weather in Davos during the week of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was oddly appropriate. The initial warmth and lack of snow were naturally a palpable reminder of global warming... |
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The Davos WorkSpace
CEO and Future Series
This year the World Economic Forum expanded the highly successful WorkSpace concept, offering both the CEO series and the Future series. The first series allowed participants to address... |
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Business: Leading in a Connected World
A decade ago, the to-do list of a typical company chief was already long. Yet, that was before the Internet and other new technologies had seriously begun to reshape business models... |
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Technology and Society: Identity, Community
and Networks
Technology is the handmaiden of globalization, yielding economies of scale, flattening supply chains and increasing the mobility of manufacturing, services and capital. In the past decade... |
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