One of the topics I’ll be tracking closely at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos next week will be Big Data. Specifically, how it’s at the center of all the major political and economic stories right now, from the NSA …
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Why the Elites Are Losing Sleep
Direct from Davos, the bubbles and risks that worry top bankers and CEOs
The Future of Davos: Is a Hipper World Forum on Its Way?
If Davos is getting old, as I speculated on this blog earlier this week, the question is, What will take its place? I spent my final hours at the World Economic Forum trying to suss that out.
The New Yorker’s John Cassidy, …
Davos Wisdom, 2013: Five Lessons from the Global Forum
One of the best descriptions of Davos I ever heard originated with my friend David Rothkopf, the CEO of Foreign Policy, whose book “Superclass” is perhaps the definitive chronicle of Davos man. “Davos,” he says, “is a …
The TIME at Davos Debate: The Rewards of Mastering Risk
Our experts examine the meaning of true leadership in uncertain times
Is the Scene At Davos Getting Old?
Davos has always been maligned for being a playground for elites. The ambrosial London Mayor Boris Johnson described the event this year as “a constellation of egos involved in orgies of adulation.” Of course, exclusivity can work in your favor when trying to build an intellectual global brand. But could the old-world elitism that Davos …
Q&A: Why U.S. Companies Fail to Innovate
Davosians have been raving about Harvard professor and innovation guru Clayton Christensen’s performance on our TIME Davos panel “Leading Through Adversity” on Jan. 23. So I caught up with him in the World Economic Forum’s bustling Congress Center to dig deeper into the root causes of the innovation lull in the U.S.
Are Today’s Business Leaders Too Afraid of Risk?
During this year’s TIME Davos panel “Leading through Adversity” — video highlights of which you can watch below — TIME International editor Jim Frederick asked some of the world’s biggest players in the global economy a simple question: Are leaders too risk-averse in their efforts to bring the economy back on track?
It’s not an …
Davos Crib Sheet: Top Global Risks of 2013 (Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid)
Want to know what keeps the people behind Davos up at night? Pretty much everything.
Four Keys to Decoding the World Economic Forum
As we speak, business leaders and heads of state are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, for their annual dose of brainstorming and cocktail partying. Bloggers have been placing bets on whether the U.S. or hobbled Europe will get …
Davos: Mario Draghi, The Man Who Would Save Europe
There is one reality for bankers, another for the rest of us. That is the lesson most easily drawn from the Jan. 10 press conference of the European Central Bank (ECB). Just hours earlier, Greece had released its latest labor …
Inside Google’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Google stunned Wall Street Thursday by accidentally releasing its third-quarter earnings report four hours ahead of schedule. Even worse, the search giant’s financial figures came in well below analyst expectations on both …