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The place to be on Friday night in Davos was the Kirchner Museum (confirming the view of the FT’s ‘Survival Guide to Davos’ published just before we all headed for these snowy climes). It was Google’s party night, and the vintage wines and 
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Along with China, energy is probably the single most talked about topic: oil storage in the USA, the pros and cons of nuclear energy, the current dilemma of capacity, and the struggle to control diminishing and increasingly valuable resources. We have re-entered an
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by Simon Zadek
Kofi Annan has come to Davos many times. Each time he has been feted as one of the world’s leading statesman, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace offering a clear moral compass to packed audiences in the massive Congress
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by Simon Zadek
A fascinating workshop on the relationship between China and Africa…talk of partnerships, collaboration, mutual interests. A powerpoint chart shows too curves showing the parallel growth of imports and exports between China and Africa…looks terribly equitable, but a rather familiar pensions expert
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by Simon Zadek
Bleary-eyed delegates stagger to their early morning meetings following late night Davos networking. My day started with a breakfast meeting with a Swiss journalist framing a familiar bunch of questions, “why are you here, is corporate responsibility a myth, is anyone
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1000 people sit the giant Congress Centre, ready to play the big game, the Big Debate on the future of more or less everything. Armed with facilitators, voting technology and inspiration, we move into gear.
Laurence Summers, President of Harvard Business School, opens
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by Simon Zadek
September is an anxious time for would-be invitees to Davos, particularly those, like me, whose participation depends on the Forum’s generosity in both spirit and pocket. But as the autumn leaves began to fall around me, my embossed invitation letter popped
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