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Preface
Participants in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 convened in Davos at a time of great anxiety in the world. The turmoil in the financial markets and the continuing... |
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Economics and Finance: Addressing Economic Insecurity
It might be tempting to lay the blame for the unfolding financial crisis at the feet of bankers like JérÔme Kerviel, the young trader whose misadventures have allegedly cost Société... |
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Geopolitics: Aligning Interests Across Divides
Collaboration is most certainly the best way to develop effective approaches to these many global risks. But cooperation among nations will be insufficient if the responses involve obsolete tools... |
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Business: Competing While Collaborating
French poet Paul Valéry might have been forecasting for today's multinational corporation when he said that "the trouble of our times is that the future isn't what it used to be... |
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Science and Technology: Exploring Nature's New Frontiers
We are born, we die. For the duration of our lives, we share this assumption about our common mortality. We plan our affairs and measure our success against a traditional lifespan... |
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Values and Society: Understanding Future Shifts
Shifts happen - but some shifts are easier to see than others. We frequently study globalization through such measurements as trade, capital flows or labour movements... |
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The Workspace
The WorkSpace put the Annual Meeting theme - The Power of Collaborative Innovation - into action. Participants collaborated to find new ways of tackling some of the most critical... |
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