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26 Jan 2025
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Leadership When Everyone Has AI | Davos Panel by Charter x Valence and WP Intelligence

17 Jan 2019
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How 1850s America Offers a Model for Escaping Poverty

24 Jan 2013
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Q&A: Why U.S. Companies Fail to Innovate

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By: Tarun Khanna

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20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

In a much admired and debated speech given at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Bill Gates said that many of the world's biggest problems cannot be fixed by philanthropy, but instead require free-market... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

October 2007 (Revised May 2008)
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By: Tarun Khanna, Rakesh Khurana and Forest L. Reinhardt

Covers strategy and leadership. World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab has created the world's most famous-and exclusive-global business conference, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, and backed by a formidable membership organization that includes many of the... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Economics; Globalization; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Welfare; Strategy; Davos

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01 Apr 1998
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World Economic Forum

Those who attended a Harvard Dinner at the Davos conference included (top) Dean Clark and Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66), and (bottom) Bruno L. Schroder (MBA '60), Yoh Kurosawa (83rd AMP), and Yasko Kurosawa. Photographs by Roger Canali Dean... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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The New “In” Crowd

Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. Not bad company. Could it be that what was previously viewed as an idealistic (or downright unrealistic) MBA career choice had finally moved into the mainstream? Actually, HBS has... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand

elite events such as Davos are still coveted, but those events are also broadly covered, including by the new anyone’s-a-journalist who carries a smartphone camera. Actions and conversations increasingly leave a digital trace, which has... View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work

also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

22 Feb 2010
Op-Ed

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

leader with a strong, cohesive plan. Mr. Toyoda is anything but. His uninspired words of optimism from Davos only unnerved customers and U.S. regulators. Meanwhile, Ford and GM are working hard to regain the market share they lost at... View Details

Keywords: by William George; Auto

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

Economic Forum in Davos recently, according to a report in The New York Times, “He championed free trade and open markets, setting the tone for the week.” The facts on the ground seem to support that position. China is overtaking the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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