A Columbia University economist, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, spoke at a session on global competitiveness in Davos this morning. He offered what I think is the most succinct statement of the stages economies move through on their way to ...READ»
Today is the last day of my maiden voyage to Davos. I'm getting more emboldened in my belief that the real benefit to coming here is the networking...both deliberate and serendipitous. Our company (Advanced Diamond Technologies ...READ»
Last night, I went to a reception hosted by the Burda media group of Germany. The room at the Steigenberger Belvedere, the hotel where the real masters of the universe stay in Davos, was crowded with corporate luminaries like Michael ...READ»
The World Economic Forum at Davos has a theme every year, and the theme of the 2006 meeting is ''The Creative Imperative,'' the idea being that business leaders and society as a whole need to come up with new and creative approaches ...READ»
There's always the potential for drama, and for progress, when leaders confront the authentic voices of their people. That's what happened yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at a panel on the Middle East conflict ...READ»
I was told prior to coming that the real action, and the real value of Davos happens at night. During the day they have workshops, lectures, conferences (mostly outstanding), but the nighttime is what its about. I had that experience ...READ»
Fast Company editor, Mark Vamos, is in Davos attending the annual World Economic Forum, and he's already addressed the overwhelming theme of global warming and climate change. Today, he wrote about engineering living body parts.
As ...READ»
In tomorrow's newpapers, you'll be reading about a controversy that has erupted at Davos. ''Global Agenda,'' the magazine of the World Economic Forum, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel. In an email to participants ...READ»
Hands down, the best event at Davos was the Google party on Friday night. Never mind the glittering guest list, which included the likes of Michael Douglas and Shimon Peres (who gave an off-the-record talk). Let's talk about the ...READ»
The World Economic Forum is getting underway in earnest--and I do mean earnest--today in Davos. A major theme is climate change. It's a hot topic of discussion, if you'll forgive the expression, and the subject of several formal ...READ»
I feel like I was asked to the prom by the head cheerleader. Our company was recently selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and one of the privileges of that distinction is that I get to attend the WEF Annual ...READ»
At last week’s “Summer Davos,” the annual World Economic Forum meeting in China, talk about innovation was everywhere. Not surprisingly, the sense of the meeting was that waiting for governments to set consistent rules and incentives for a low-carbon economy is a fool’s game.
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It’s nearly impossible to discern the true “mood of Davos” because there are simply too many micro-communities amid the 2500 participants. But for those of us focused on sustainability, there were many reasons for optimism. READ»
Next week, I'm giving a talk next week on Green Marketing, in Davos, Switzerland. Tonight I was reviewing the PowerPoint. And I was struck yet again by the big case study in my talk: a company that has been producing products from ...READ»
Another soundbite from a Davos discussion on user-generated content. In something of a metaphor for the UGC phenomenon, much of the most trenchant stuff came not from the formal panel members but from the audience. Jeff Jarvis, ...READ»
I gave Sergey Brin a tie clip that I had made for him with his name written in diamond using our diamond deposition process. It generated a nice discussion where he made quite a few suggestions about business opportunities and new ...READ»
Yet another dispatch from the first annual Bathroom Blogfest
I’m standing in line at the upstairs restroom during the break at Pop!Tech, the Davos-like conference held every year at the Opera House in Camden, Maine. Pop!Tech’s ...READ»
In the ski resort business, everything depends on white snow. But with the impending global climate change, ski resorts are going green, cleaning the air and offering better views of mountain landscapes.READ»
In yesterday's post, I described a creativity face-off at Davos. Participants were asked to describe their vision of the keys to creativity, and the audience voted on those ideas until two finalists remained. As promised, here's the ...READ»
In one corner, we have "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, endive-munching, New York Times-reading snobs." And in the other corner, "Hummer-driving, Bible-thumping, fire-breathing, snake-handling fundamentalists."
Just another skirmish ...READ»
